Yeah, I've noticed a lot of that kind of thing looking back over old schedules. Sometimes I think they had 2 or 3 cookie cutter schedules and kept re-using them over and over. I recall seeing a stretch of about 35 years where the CUBS only opened their season against 3 different teams (of course, that's 3 out of 7 possible opponents, but still....). It's fun to look at.