(Gestern, 07:16)bignike schrieb: IjonTihy
You don’t have to manually enter all 34 matchdays for every single season.
There’s a way to copy the second half of the season ("Rückrunde") and simply swap the home/away teams. Most likely, the matchday pattern (match schedule key or "Spielschlüssel") remains the same each year.
So you only need to enter the first 17 matchdays, then copy them and swap the home advantage. Of course, you may still need to adjust the exact match dates afterwards.
In my case, for example, the first matchday of the copied second half was always the last matchday of the season — meaning that the opening fixtures were the same as the final round. Because of that, I had to manually move the first Rückrunde matchday to the end. But after that, everything lined up correctly.
Then you can save this full 34-matchday schedule as your "Spielschlüssel" (schedule key).
In the next season, you simply generate the schedule using this saved key. It works like a puzzle: for example, which team is the only one to have a home game in both matchdays 2 and 3? Click on the team on the right side and assign the correct number, etc.
Of course, promoted or relegated teams won’t be in your existing team list, so you can temporarily use a “placeholder” team that has left the league. Later, just use the “replace team” function to swap it with the correct one.
Yes, I know. The only problem is that the method for copying half a season described in the manual doesn't work. I mean, if I check 17 matchdays, select the start date for the beginning of the round and then check box "reverse home teams", the program hangs. Well it's possible that it works but very slowly, but after over half an hour I'm tired of waiting because it's faster to do it manually. As a result, I'm only copying 17 matchdays with the new starting date, but without reversing the home team - and that takes the program only a few seconds. Then I manually reverse the home team for each matchday separatedly.