I have always wanted to know how they put together any sport schedules, more specifically NBA schedules, anyone have any legit info on how they are put together? Thanks for any information!
http://www.nbastuffer.com/component.../func,view/term,How the NBA Schedule is Made/ Matt Winick, who has been the architect of the NBA schedule for more than 20 seasons, is the NBA's vice president of scheduling and game operations. Winick starts it in February. 6 months later, in first week of August, the final schedule is completed. According to Matt Winick, the NBA sets the league schedule to accomplish both competitive balance and a reduction of costs. The goal of the NBA schedule, as it is constructed, is to be efficient from a competitive standpoint with an indirect consideration of travel costs. Matt Winick has a complicated system that assigns a point value to each date or series of dates a team makes available. The point system rewards a team for making several consecutive dates available instead of insisting on a particular date. Each time team must amass at least 50 points. Factors that have an impact on setting NBA schedule can be summarized as follows: 1. NBA SCHEDULING FORMULA Each team have to play: 4 games against the other 4 division opponents, [16 games] 4 games against 6 (out-of-division) conference opponents, [24 games] 3 games against the remaining 4 conference teams, [12 games] 2 games against teams in the opposing conference. [30 games] A five year rotation determines which out-of-division conference teams are played only 3 times. 2. COURT AVAILABILITY All teams, about a month before the end of the preceding regular season, have to submit to the NBA office a list of: at least 50 dates on which their home court will be available, 4 Mondays 4 Thursdays (to help TNT plan its telecasts). 3. OFFICIAL BREAKS (on which no games are played) Christmas eve, The all-star game, NCAA championship game, 4. CONFLICTS The conflicts such as NHL games on the same court have to be resolved. 5. BROADCASTERS Games can be moved to satisfy the NBA's TV partners (ABC, ESPN and TNT). Game times can be tweaked.
Thanks for the info random Q, why do the Lakers have so much homes games in the beginning, is there anything going on in Staples ?
Staples Center has two NBA teams and an NHL team, combined with major concert appearances and the Grammy Awards every year.
also Chicago has the circus coming every year so they need to be available those days. Also you have look for any concerts or events (like a WWE event)
I don't think it's necessarily a great advantage. They're forced to play well out of the gate because they need leeway for later in the season. At this point in the year, they have a 5 gm trip after playing spotty for the last 2 months. Compare to the Cavs who have a bunch of pushovers to ensure themselves a nice streak heading into the playoffs.
well IMHO its better to have a lot of home games in at the start of the season. At the beginning everyone is still getting used to playing with each other so you need easy opponents to build confidence and get the ball rolling in the right direction. Later on you want tough opponents to prepare you for the playoffs or give you a sense of where you stand among the league's elite. The cavs may have a nice streak but if they become used to weak opponents they're gonna get creamed in the first round.
Considering the cavs will most likely be a one seed, I don't see any team much less an 8 seed creaming them in the first round.
