National High School Football League?

[cryphog]

Hi! This is my first post, but was wondering if anyone had created a league using High School Football Teams. If not, would anyone be interested in doing so. Thanks!

[nmleague]

How many teams are you talking about? Scheduling will be a problem for any large league.

[cryphog]

What would be a good number to start off with? And couldn't you just let the game configure the schedule?

[garysorrell]

The game will create a schedule. But, it may not be to your liking if you want certain divisions playing each other, or specific series and such. It doesnt really take that into account.

David explained once how the game makes the schedule, if I remember correctly it schedules each team to play every other team once, or as many teams as the schedule is long.

[nmleague]

As it is now with this version of the game, the game generates a single round robin schedule format, but the schedule can be edited with the included schedule editor.  You determine the number of games/weeks in the season and the game will generate a schedule using all the teams in the leauge pool.  So for example if you had 16 teams in a league with a 16 week scheudule.  The game would generate a schedule with each team playing each other once, first 15 weeks, then for the 16th week it would again start the round robin so the first weeks games would be repeated.  That is fine for that size league and its easy to edit that.  I have set up some 12 team league, 3 divisions of 4 teams, the game gererates a round robin schedule for 14 games, so each team will play each other team in the league for the first 11 weeks of the schedule.  I then edit the schedule so that for the last three weeks of the schedule the teams in each division will play the other teams in their division a second time (3 games) to complete the schedule.  I have also set up other combinations like this with 16 teams.  But you can see that this could be a problem with say 120 teams with a 12 game/week schedule, even if you had the teams divided into conferences the game still puts all the teams into one pool for schedule generation.  So I think you would end up having to almost just edit the complete schedule from scratch.
 
In the beta forums I have asked for an enhancement/wish to have the game have different layers of scheduling for leagues and conferences.  By that I mean if a league was just organized with say divisions, then all the teams in the league would go into a single pool for scheduling.  If on the other had a league was organized with conferences (with divisions) then only the teams in a conference would be used for the conferences schedule.  Again the resulting schedule would be a round robin schedule that could be edited.   Here is an example of how this would work and you can see how it would fit what you are looking for.
 
Example, this is something Im setting up and hope will have the schedule option.
 
A major US college league with 4 conferences of 12 teams ( Midwest- Big Ten Teams, Southeas -SEC teams, Western -Pac Ten teams and so on).  Lets say the season is 14 games.  Since there are 4 conferences the game will place the teams from each conference in a seperate pool and generate a round robin schedule for each conference.  That would result in each team in a conference playing each other team one time, 11 games, plus the last 3 games of the season some teams would play a second game against teams they already played.  Since those last 3 games are repeats of games 1-3, I would edit the schedule for weeks 1-3, and have teams start the season with 3 "non conference" games.  This would I think be a fairly close simulation of real life college football.  I could see this same system being used for a high school league of 20 conferences of 10 teams, if someone wanted to do it.
 
Heres hoping that David can give us this scheduleing abiltiy.