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    Poiponen13

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    In the 2027-28 season, the FA Cup third round is scheduled for 1 January and the fourth round on 22 January. In the real world, dates for these rounds have never been so early. It would be better to have them on 8 and 29 January. Does the scheduling algorithm always take dates of all events earlier while still on the same day of the week or are the dates ever later than in the previous season? I know that FA Cup dates will change for the next year but this game does not know that, and in the real world, the FA Cup third round has been scheduled on a Saturday between 2 and 8 January, and the fourth round three weeks after that. And if this continues to move them earlier, then in the 2028-29 season, the third round would be on 30 December, and the fourth round on 20 January. In the real world, 6 and 27 January would be better dates. And this game has all the rules as they were in the 2023-24 season, but are there ever random rule changes such as division sizes and scheduling throughout the game? For example, if the Premier League decided to increase to 22 teams, or the Danish Superliga to 14 teams and back to the format used until 2020? And because in 2023-24 season, League One, League Two and National League all ended one week earlier than normal, in all my seasons they end one week earlier than in real-world seasons with same calendars. For example, in 2027-28 season, League One and League Two end on 22 April and National League on 15 April, which is too early. Hopefully this does not eventually take dates as off as possible if one plays in for about 30 seasons (e.g. FA Cup third round would be in mid-December and League One and League Two season would start in mid-July and end in early April).

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    Hello, the dates are not going to keep getting earlier and earlier, in certain seasons some games are played slightly out of line with more usual real life dates to avoid fixture congestion elsewhere.

    Scheduling is very difficult to balance so you can get occasional anomalies. But you're not going to have a scenario where the FA Cup being played in mid December in 2045.

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    On 13/09/2024 at 15:25, Zachary Whyte said:

    Hello, the dates are not going to keep getting earlier and earlier, in certain seasons some games are played slightly out of line with more usual real life dates to avoid fixture congestion elsewhere.

    Scheduling is very difficult to balance so you can get occasional anomalies. But you're not going to have a scenario where the FA Cup being played in mid December in 2045.

    Do there ever happen random rule changes throughout the game? And are FA Cup dates on 8 and 29 January in some other future years if they are on 1 and 22 January in 2028?

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