Making Fantasy Football Schedules (1 Viewer)

[JAA]

rules:

a) The regular season will last from week 1 of the NFL season until week 12 of the NFL season.b) Each team plays every other team in its conference one (1) time during the regular season. The final game of the regular season will be played against a division rival.c) The extra game played against a division rival will decided at random

FBGs (which is awesome) will use 2 divisions, I have 3 divisions. Any advice here?Thanks

 

[spodog]

Is this a 12 team league? would help to know how many teams you are talking about. Assume you are refering to 3 divisions of 4 teams each, correct?

 

[JAA]

Is this a 12 team league? would help to know how many teams you are talking about. Assume you are refering to 3 divisions of 4 teams each, correct?

sorry, yea12 teams 3 divisions

 

[Bamac]

If you already like the FBG setup, it's pretty simple: each team plays each other team once in weeks 1-11. Then, in week 12, each team plays a random division rival. Because you have 4-team divisions, the week 12 matchups should come out evenly.

 

[roadkill1292]

Here's the formula for a simple round robin schedule:

Week 1

1-12

2-11

3-10

4-9

5-8

6-7

Week 2

1-2

3-12

4-11

5-10

6-9

7-8

You see how No. 1 stays put and the other numbers revolve around clockwise?

Week 3

1-3

4-2

5-12

6-11

7-10

8-9

Follow that for 11 weeks and then make up your Week 12 matchups. If I've stated the obvious here, please accept my apologies.

 

[notoriousbob]

we do a 14 week reg season, we have 3 divisions made of 4 teams, you play your div opponents twice, everyone else once. We have it structured such that the first 4 games are non-div, then 3 division games, 4 non div games, and then the last 3 are div games. Makes for a balanced schedule and a great stretch run. each division winner (decided by overall record, then div record, then points scored) goes to playoffs, plus one wildcard.

 

[the next level]

Those schedule auto-generators are a time saver, but building schedules manually affords an opportunity for more meaningful design. Specifically, consider planning those division contests for weeks when no NFL teams are on a bye. The bye week formula is a little different for the NFL this year, as it runs from week 5 to week 11 although for some reason week 10 is a full schedule weekend. Nonetheless, there's ample opportunity for your division foes to face each other twice, to do at the beginning and the end of the fantasy regular season, and for there to be no bye-week handicap excuses. This scheme strengthens the argument for a given team to be "deserving" of a post-season berth when they emerge as division champ with such a structure.

 

[Couch Potato]

You see how No. 1 stays put and the other numbers revolve around clockwise?

That's pretty cool, I've never seen that before. Does it work with any number of teams?

 

[roadkill1292]

You see how No. 1 stays put and the other numbers revolve around clockwise?

That's pretty cool, I've never seen that before. Does it work with any number of teams?

Any even number at all. And it just takes one little change to make it work for an odd number of teams, too.