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August 20, 2010
One Man Decides NBA Schedule: For the past 24 years, each season's NBA schedule has been the work of one man, league vice president Matt Winick. "There's a computer program I work with that helps," he said. "But basically it's me -- and the computer prevents me from doing stupid things. ... I guess I have a job nobody else wants."
posted by rcade to basketball at 01:47 PM - 5 comments
You don't like watching the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators sixteen times?
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 05:58 PM on August 20, 2010
You don't like watching the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators sixteen times?
The short answer to that is a resounding no, no I don't. The slightly longer answer is that the NBA seems to realize what the NHL doesn't...rivalries are created in the playoffs, not the regular season. Think over your time as a hockey fan, and come up with a regular season game you got excited about that didn't spawn from a playoff matchup. In the regular season, I want to see players like Ovechkin, Brodeur, Chara...guys who otherwise I'd only see play the Wings in the Finals. Nothing against Rick Nash, but he's not enough of a draw to get me into JLA in January...
posted by MeatSaber at 06:43 PM on August 20, 2010
It's frustrating as a Calgary Flames fan who lives five hours away from Calgary. To go and take in a game, it's a weekend trip and then when the schedule comes out, you are left with only part of the eastern conference teams coming to town for games. That and there are very few back to back home games any more which means for a longer season but no great weekends of hockey any more.
posted by jc at 01:17 PM on August 24, 2010
You know, I've never really paid attention to that, but I went through the Wings schedule for the coming season. There are no back-to-back home games, yet there's 3 times they have B2B road/home games, and twice they play B2B road/road. In those 2 instances, one is part of 3 games in 4 nights, and the other is the middle of 4 games in 6 nights...with travel in between every game. It's like they let a baboon pound away on a keyboard until there's a full calendar...
posted by MeatSaber at 05:56 PM on August 24, 2010
Can someone sneak into the NHL's office and install that program, so we can see every team at least twice a season?