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Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

From the human perspective, sure it would be nice. But keep in mind that for that to work, the game's scheduling logic (currently only used to generate a set-in-stone schedule at the beginning of each year) would have be able to handle re-scheduling of games, whether and when to have double-headers, whether the game even needs to be played if it's late in the season (I know some meaningless games late in the season just get straight-up cancelled occasionally, because MLB simply doesn't have a place in the schedule to move them to). Even the real MLB struggles with this stuff at times, and trying to program all of this extra logic in would undoubtedly take away from development on other things. And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg - the first things I can think of off the top of my head that would make this a royal pain to implement.

It really wouldn't be that hard. MLB struggles with it because they actually have to deal with travel, etc. For The Show they could just come up with some simple parameters and weave them in.

If a rain out occurs early in a series, make the following day be a double header. If it's the last game of a series, make it a double header the next time the two teams play. If the two teams are done playing each other for the year push it ahead to the next time there's an off day for both teams. If both teams have already been eliminated and it's late in the season, cancel the game. If the game needs to be played at the end of the year do it then.

Compared to some of the other stuff that goes on with coding this would be relatively simple.