With realignment, a new scheduling format will also be introduced.

Each division is still responsible for deciding its own scheduling format.

Under the scheduling format in effect from 1977 through last season, the Yankees and the Twins had two home series with each other.

With realignment comes a new scheduling format in which every team will meet at least once in four years.

Some changes to the scheduling format were made.

Since the National Basketball Association changed to a 2-3-2 scheduling format for the finals, no home team has ever swept the middle three games.

Desert Mountain has a two-semester scheduling format to serve its student population of almost 2,300 students in grades nine through twelve.

That means, for example, the new scheduling format will not include yearly Giants-Jets games.

Beginning in the 2013-14 season, a new scheduling format will see each team paired with one "primary partner."

This scheduling format was abandoned in 1975.