BuzzerBeater Forums

Hello Bro's!
I don't understand this, why is it necessary for any team to play three or more games away from home in a row?!
It is incomprehensible why teams can't play in a home-away match rhythm, why does it have to be so messed up instead/ confus?!
What do you think about this?

The fixture is a (very) basic round robin, with only the minimal complexity in order to keep the code for generating it simpler.

Each conference is divided into two 4 team pods, and those pods play against teams from the opposite pod for the first 4 games, with "Pod A" playing at home for one game, then "Pod B" playing at home the next game and so forth.

The next three games are intra-pod games, 1v2 and 3v4, then 1v3 and 2v4, then 1v4 and 2v3. There's no real functional way to prevent all teams from getting two consecutive away games when you're doing an intra-pod schedule like that, and one of those double away games will have to happen in game 2 and 3.

Intraconference play then starts on the following (8th) game, and IC play alternates between all Big 8 teams home one matchday or all Great 8 teams home the next matchday. The Big 8 plays away on MD8 for odd numbered seasons, so this season there will be two Big 8 teams that had their MD6 + MD7 games away and thus get the Dreaded Triple Away.

Hi, Bro!
Thank You, your meaning.
That's why I started this forum.
After all, there are eight teams in each group.
In the first week, half of them start with a home match, half with an away match. Then in the second week, it's the other way around. And so on, alternating.
Then why is the draw such that three matches are away/home?!
And, when you play three matches away, you have NO match income for two weeks.

Dilettante

Yes, this is how it should be, but I'm already in my second league season and I'm experiencing having to play two or three games in a row away.
Then what you wrote here doesn't work well?

14 out of 16 teams will play 2 games in a row away at least once in a season. 2 teams will play 3 games in a row away at least once (though if you're staying in the same conference for multiple seasons in a row, you will not play 3 games in a row away on consecutive seasons -- but if you promote/relegate and swap from B8 to G8 then you have the potential to get unlucky).

I wouldn't expect any consideration of changing the fixtures to try to smooth that out before the new UI. But there's also just some practical limits on how much you can drive that down -- I did some experimentation with it in the past and it's effectively impossible to get a fixture with 0 double-away games for all teams (and even more so it's basically impossible to have 0 weeks with no home game revenue, given the existence of the all-star break and the fact that MD1 is on a Saturday instead of a Tuesday). The most fair fixture I could come up with would have 8 teams with 1 double-away and 8 teams with 2 double-away sequences, but no triple-aways.

I'm a renew manager.
I definitely remember, not having problems like this before.
AND
I still don't understand why the championships couldn't be run in an alternating home-foreign rhythm.

No one claimed this.

This is the program of my team:
A - H - A - H - H - A - A - A - H - A - H - A - H - A -H - H - A - H - A - A - H - H.