RME JICO Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 (edited) I was taking a look at the 2006 schedule to see how it compared to the 2005 schedule. I remember the 15 game stretch in August where the Sox only played the Twins, Sawks, and Yanks, and was curious to see if there was another one of those stretches in 2006. Here is what I came up with month by month: April: * Play 12 games vs winning teams and 12 vs losing teams (I counted TOR as a winning team) * Don't play back to back winning teams until LAA and CLE (Apr28-May2) May: * Play 18 games vs winning teams and 11 vs losing teams * Only 2 days off * Have 2 tough stretches - 7 games vs LAA and MIN 9 game vs OAK, TOR, and CLE June: * Fairly easy month * Play 10 games vs winning teams and 17 vs losing teams * 12 Interleague games (STL and HOU back-to-back @ home) * Only 1 game vs a winning team away from home July: * Easiest month * Play 9 games vs winning teams and 16 vs losing teams * Do not play consecutive winning teams this month August: * Play 12 games vs winning teams and 16 vs losing teams * Play 20 straight games September/October: * The hardest month on paper * Play 19 games vs winning teams and 10 vs losing teams * 16 straight games * Sep 5th - 17th - 13 game stretch (3 @ BOS, 4 vs CLE, 3 @ LAA, 3 @ OAK) 2006 Season - * 12 Road Trips * Longest Road Trip - 9 games So it looks like May and September are the only difficult months, and it looks like the Sox have a good chance to put up a lot of wins from June-August. It seems like the one 13 game stretch in September is the only huge challenge. Overall, not that bad of a schedule. Edited January 3, 2006 by RME JICO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan1 Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 05:25 PM) I was taking a look at the 2006 schedule to see how it compared to the 2005 schedule. I remember the 15 game stretch in August where the Sox only played the Twins, Sawks, and Yanks, and was curious to see if there was another one of those stretches in 2006. Here is what I came up with month by month: April: * Play 12 games vs winning teams and 12 vs losing teams (I counted TOR as a winning team) * Don't play back to back winning teams until LAA and CLE (Apr28-May2) May: * Play 18 games vs winning teams and 11 vs losing teams * Only 2 days off * Have 2 tough stretches - 7 games vs LAA and MIN 9 game vs OAK, TOR, and CLE June: * Fairly easy month * Play 10 games vs winning teams and 16 vs losing teams * 12 Interleague games (STL and HOU back-to-back @ home) * Only 1 game vs a winning team away from home July: * Easiest month * Play 9 games vs winning teams and 16 vs losing teams * Do not play consecutive winning teams this month August: * Play 12 games vs winning teams and 16 vs losing teams * Play 20 straight games September/October: * The hardest month on paper * Play 19 games vs winning teams and 10 vs losing teams * 16 straight games * Sep 5th - 17th - 13 game stretch (3 @ BOS, 4 vs CLE, 3 @ LAA, 3 @ OAK) 2006 Season - * 12 Road Trips * Longest Road Trip - 9 games So it looks like May and September are the only difficult months, and it looks like the Sox have a good chance to put up a lot of wins from June-August. It seems like the one 13 game stretch in September is the only huge challenge. Overall, not that bad of a schedule. Don't you have anything else to do besides analyze every aspect of the White Sox organization??? But you get major props! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iWiN4PreP Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 Good post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RME JICO Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:47 PM) Don't you have anything else to do besides analyze every aspect of the White Sox organization??? But you get major props! At first I just wanted to see if there was a tough stretch like in 2005, but then I went thru the entire schedule in about 20 minutes and thought I would share what I came up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santo=dorf Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:47 PM) Don't you have anything else to do besides analyze every aspect of the White Sox organization??? But you get major props! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm surprised Juggs hasn't done it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan1 Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 06:30 PM) I'm surprised Juggs hasn't done it yet. ^^^ Except there would be about 50x as many numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RME JICO Posted January 3, 2006 Author Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 05:30 PM) ^^^ Except there would be about 50x as many numbers. I toned it down a little before posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:30 PM) ^^^ Except there would be about 50x as many numbers. Adding wind speed and barometric pressure to the mix as well methinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin57 Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Thanks for the analysis. Interesting...and hope-filled. Of course, always, always a "caveat" that baseball nearly always provides for at least one "surprise" success (anyone say, White Sox 2005?) team per season. I would venture to guess that at least one of the "losing" teams will be on a tear when we face them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 3, 2006 -> 04:38 PM) Adding wind speed and barometric pressure to the mix as well methinks. And a comparison of how mathematics and God are directly involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeBatterz Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Nice Analysis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Good stuff, I actually haven't really looked at the schedule yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan1 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 02:48 PM) And a comparison of how mathematics and God are directly involved. And then somehow directly linking the number of atheists to the possible amount of wins for Brandon McCarthy based on the combined wind speeds of every 2005 tropical storm divided by the # of letters in Apu's last name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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