The Central League posted their preliminary schedule for the 2012 season today.

Some notes on the schedule:

• One team will play 144 games
  • Against CL teams: 60 home games and 60 road games. 24 games against each team.
  • Against PL teams: 12 home games and 12 road games. 4 games against 6 PL teams.
  • There will be 360 Central League games and 144 Inter-league games.
• Opening Day
  • will feature 3 games on 3/30 - Yakult vs Yomiuri, Hiroshima vs Chinichi, Yokohama vs Hanshin
  • Home teams will be the teams that finished in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in 2010: Chunichi, Hanshin, Yomiuri
• Games that have yet to be scheduled
  • Yokohama vs Yomiuri (2), Yomiuri vs Yakult, Hiroshima vs Yakult (2), Yakult vs Yokohama, Chunichi vs Yokohama, Hanshin vs Chunichi, Hiroshima vs Chunichi, Hiroshima vs Hanshin, Hanshin vs Hiroshima - a total 11 games from 9 series.
• Home away from home games: Yomiuri 9, Yakult 6, Yokohama 9, Chunichi 5, Hanshin 12, Hiroshima 4 - a total 45 games.
• Climax Series Schedule
  • Not yet set

You can see the new schedules (in Japanese, without start times or complete venue information) at the official NPB site. Here are the direct links to each month.

• March / April
• May
• Inter-League
• June
• July
• August
• September

And for the those that need it, here is the legend for what each of the letters stand for:

• G = Yomiuri Giants
• D = Chunichi Dragons
• S = Yakult Swallows
• T = Hanshin Tigers
• C = Hiroshima Carp
• YB = Yokohama Bay Stars

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