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Associated Press Coverage of MLB 2005 Schedule |
"Each team plays 162 games, half of them at home, half away.
League officials would not discuss the criteria of a winning
proposal but said the process has become increasingly complex, with
new divisions, interleague play, extended playoffs and more demands
from cities with scheduling conflicts.
As a result, scheduling has become much more of a science and
academics now play a larger role, [Major League Baseball VP Katy] Feeney said.
In fact, Doug Bureman, co-founder of the Sports Scheduling
Group, teamed up with a business professor from Carnegie Mellon
University and a professor of industrial and systems engineering at
Georgia Tech to put together the winning proposal." |
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Associated Press, ESPN and many other outlets
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Firm's Computer Modeling Schedules Games
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"Sports scheduling is messy. It involves lots of factors, from which
teams need to play which, to making sure that everybody has the right
number of home games, to minimizing the travel that teams need to
endure to get from one city to another. It's not something you want to
do by hand.
But it doesn't need a big company to handle it either. A small outfit called The Sports Scheduling Group (www.sports-scheduling.com) does the work, using computer modeling for big time sports such as The Big Ten, Major League Baseball, The ACC and others."
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 13, 2009
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Mountain West Schedule Announced
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"The scheduling process proved particularly challenging in 2005 and, for
the first time, the Conference utilized the services of an outside
entity to help construct a workable format. The Sports Scheduling
Group, which includes Major League Baseball and the Atlantic Coast
Conference among its clients, utilized its world-class personnel and
computer resources to assist the MWC in attempting to balance more than
130 variables generated by the member institutions, the league
scheduling parameters and television." |
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Mountain West Conference, 2005
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