How is the NHL schedule made? Who is involved and how long does the process usually take? I'm a mathematician doing work with this sort of application and I'm curious how they do it for real?
2007-03-17 15:41:30 · 4 answers · asked by KM 1 in Sports ➔ Hockey
The schedule consists of 82 games. Each team plays every team in their division 8 times (4 home and 4 away) which totals 32 games as their are 5 teams and you do not play yourself. Then you play 4 games against the remaining teams in their own conference. Two away and two at home. This is an additional 10 teams or 40 games. This bring s the total to 72 games. The remaining games are played against teams in the other conference. Those games are determined by rotating the divisions in which a team plays every year. Then that equals 82 games which is a complete season.
2007-03-17 17:25:42 · answer #1 · answered by Mark L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the schedule makers probably have to take a look at the events already scheduled to happen at the arena during the season before devising the schedule. This includes events such as concerts, shows, etc. It is even more difficult to give timeslots to a team that may share an arena with an NBA team (i.e. LA, NY, Chicago, Washington). Another factor can be the length of homestands/roadtrips due to the events going on at the team's arena besides hockey...
I have no idea when they start devising the next season's schedule but it is usually finished in early-mid July.
2007-03-18 00:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Scotty G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the details, but it's obviously an extremely half@$$ed process....I know the NHL wants to promote the division rivalries, but they have to schedule in such a way that every team plays each team in the other conference home-and-home every year. I think it's ridiculous that a fan in the West does not have the opportunity to see guys like Crosby, Ovechkin, and Kovelchuk at least once each season.
If your application can accomplish this, run, don't walk to the phone and ring up Gary Bettman immediately...just don't expect any progressive thinking on the other end.
2007-03-17 23:04:39 · answer #3 · answered by Yinzer Power 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my guess with there being 30 teams and 82 games, it is done by computer. they formulate how many division games need to be played, and divide the rest up to in a certain percentage to herest of the leaue, conferance games being more prominent than non conferance games.
2007-03-17 22:59:52 · answer #4 · answered by mytquinn28 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋