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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I don't remember if I've ever mentioned this, but I used to work for the company that did the NBA's schedule. They had some algorithm where they also optimized the times of games to maximize the likelihood that there'd be a game of national interest in each time slot.
That group resigned and started their own company before I started working there, but I think they still do the NBA schedule today, and also several other leagues. I know they don't do the NFL, and I'm pretty sure they don't do MLB. They might do the NHL and I think they do (or did) MLS.
That would've been a fun project to work on, but I arrived on the scene about four years after they left.
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When Bert Bell was the NFL Commisioner, he used to lay out the schedule using index cards on his dining room table. Of course there were only about a dozen teams in those days and TV times were much less if a concern.