Cracking the Code of Baseball Scheduling

Friday, 18 April 2014 | by Pat's Picks

Have you ever wondered how Major League Baseball comes up with its schedule? 30 teams, 162 games, travel, special requests. In a way it’s mind-boggling. The Baltimore Sun says a team of Johns Hopkins researchers has come up with a program that uses thousands of lines of code to produce a nearly perfect schedule. Now they’re hoping to sell it some of the minor leagues - where schedules are often still done in pencil.

SOURCE: Baltimore Sun