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The New England Patriots will attempt to complete the NFL's first 16-0 regular season on Saturday minus the starting right side of their offensive line. Guard Stephen Neal (shoulder) and tackle Nick Kaczur (foot) were downgraded by team officials to "out" for the prime-time matchup against the...

Have we ever had a poll in the Shark Pool to determine what percentage of leagues use Week 16 vs. Week 17? I seem to recall that there was one but I can't find it.

You have to figure all Redskins, Browns and Titans are safe plays. Therefore, Collins, Portis, SMoss, Lewis, Anderson, Edwards, Winslow, VY and White are OK.

No real positives? How about the game that we love going global? How about the hobby that we're addicted to racing around the world? No real positives? Take the blinders off and think about the NFL as part of the global economy. The possibilities are endless. Fans can drive the location of...

Interesting side note about DD (That may only interest me) - in two of my leagues our four team divisions stay the same every year. Therefore, we're getting a nice little rivalry going. I used the DD weighting feature to focus on the Divisional game weeks. I went 9-3 in Division play. One...

TEN is bad but the schedule makes things even worse. @MIA, DAL, @IND, @WAS before the bye. Brutal. Coming our of the bye, they get HOU at home. I guess I'd target that as Lendale's 'coming out' party.

You beat me to it! Exactly right - Superbowl appearances sound like a nice barometer of success but 6% of the league make it annually - that's hardly a good place to set the bar. Playoff teams represent 37% annually.

Love it!

Is there even a chance that BB would consider keeping Cobbs and cutting Dillon (assuming there really is no 'injury' to Maroney)?

I commish a 12 team league and that's my contingency. My only concern with the plan would be what happens if Average Team wins?

White?

Does Eric Shelton have, literally, no value? None?

:shakes head really fast while typing:But the formula had to be implemented at some point in time. The past couldn't be changed. Look at the future schedules. It makes perfect sense. :still shaking head:

Not the point. The point is that once the league went to 32 teams, there's a 'formulaic' approach to the scheduling. Its explained here:Future Schedules The Pats were first in the AFC East last year so they have to play the first place team from the AFC West and AFC North this year. The rest...

A couple thoughts on the schedule - first, with the balanced, 32 team league schedule there is no room for weighting. The majority of the schedule is known in advance. The only things that change are the teams that ranked similarly in other divisions - that's why we have the Broncos - we won...