How do you design your Calendar?

[Rollo75]

I'm currently playing with dates for 20X4 and am trying to work out a 20 race season.
I know that:
Daytona needs to be Race 1
Daytona Beach needs to be Race 20
Le Mans and Bathurst need to be races 16 & 17

Beyond that, I'm throwing lots of ideas at the wall and not much seems to stick.

Does anyone else have a process for designing their calendar? If so, what?
Or am I just daft and so far down the rabbit hole that not even the cupcake which has the "Eat Me" tag will help any more?

 

[mjarviejr]

I usually base mine off of date markers. So using your example, I first of all look at Memorial Day for the Indy 500 or Coke 600, Daytona or whatever race on the 4th of July and Darlington on Labor Day weekend. I usually fill in other races such as Sonoma the last weekend in June and Michigan, Watkins Glen, and Bristol in August. Phoenix and Martinsville will be in October and Daytona the 1st race. I then fill in the rest where I think they should be.

 

[casssp]

Very interesting! I do my season calendar in alphabetical order, ascending or descending. It sounds crazy, but believe me: it's cool!

I've always wondered how many others do this too...

 

[mtblillie]

This probably doesn't help with what you are working on, but I have a fictional international series that I run, and I often set the dates to coincide with other big races from different series throughout the year so that they race on the same track on the same weekend. So for example they would be at Daytona RC for the 24 hours of Daytona, and then Daytona oval for the Daytona 500, then later they might be at Spa during the F1 race there, or Bathurst during the SuperCars race, etc.

 

[mjarviejr]

This probably doesn't help with what you are working on, but I have a fictional international series that I run, and I often set the dates to coincide with other big races from different series throughout the year so that they race on the same track on the same weekend. So for example they would be at Daytona RC for the 24 hours of Daytona, and then Daytona oval for the Daytona 500, then later they might be at Spa during the F1 race there, or Bathurst during the SuperCars race, etc.

I've actually got an excel spreadsheet similar to this because I'm trying to incorporate Indy cars and GTP/Trans Am into my offline career mode. I'm just trying to figure out how doable it is for me to actually do it and create all the cars for it. lol

 

[Mystical]

For my lower divisions I randomize the schedules. I use Tabletop Simulator as the randomizer: https://www.adrd-forums.net/index/threads/offline-series-general-chat.294/post-1748

A simple spreadsheet could suffice for randomization but since I need the card art anyways for the presented season schedule images might as well have the most fun with them as cards to randomize my schedules as well.