Scheduling question for dynasty league (1 Viewer)

[kevinray]

We are in our second year of a dynasty league and are having trouble creating the schedule fairly for this year. It is a 10 team league split into two divisions with a regular season of 13 games. We have a flex position of QB/ RB/ WR/ TE and the "home" team gets to choose which position is flexed in their individual contest. Our first year (last year) we made week 7 an out of division game for all the teams and a neutral site (no home team). While drafting the rules for the league we decided to give the bottom 5 teams from the previous year an extra home game which will come during one of the large nfl bye weeks.

We want to make week 8 the designated week this year for the extra home games, and would like to keep week 6 and 8 (large nfl bye weeks) out of division games. We also would like to make sure each team plays their full division once before playing anybody in their division twice. Are there any fair ways of creating such a schedule by using a process of randomization, or if we want a schedule so detailed, will we have to piece it together by hand?

Thank you

 

[valhallan]

We have a flex position of QB/ RB/ WR/ TE and the "home" team gets to choose which position is flexed in their individual contest.

Never heard of this but it sounds like a great idea.

 

[stevegamer]

You could block the weeks out so there are 10 division weeks, where teams play divison opponents twice each for 4 games, and then out-of division teams for the other 2 weeks.

That leaves you 3 completely out-of division weeks for things like the extra home game, bad byes etc.

Starting with that should be pretty easy. each set of 5 "division" weeks turns into a round robin, and the odd teams out play each other. Different teams out opposite each other in the next set.

 

[number 9]

You could block the weeks out so there are 10 division weeks, where teams play divison opponents twice each for 4 games, and then out-of division teams for the other 2 weeks.That leaves you 3 completely out-of division weeks for things like the extra home game, bad byes etc.Starting with that should be pretty easy. each set of 5 "division" weeks turns into a round robin, and the odd teams out play each other. Different teams out opposite each other in the next set.

I'm in this league also. Thank you for your suggestion, we may end up doing that but finding a logical spot for the third week of all out of division games is difficult. Does anybody else have any ideas?

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

We are in our second year of a dynasty league and are having trouble creating the schedule fairly for this year. It is a 10 team league split into two divisions with a regular season of 13 games. We have a flex position of QB/ RB/ WR/ TE and the "home" team gets to choose which position is flexed in their individual contest. Our first year (last year) we made week 7 an out of division game for all the teams and a neutral site (no home team). While drafting the rules for the league we decided to give the bottom 5 teams from the previous year an extra home game which will come during one of the large nfl bye weeks.We want to make week 8 the designated week this year for the extra home games, and would like to keep week 6 and 8 (large nfl bye weeks) out of division games. We also would like to make sure each team plays their full division once before playing anybody in their division twice. Are there any fair ways of creating such a schedule by using a process of randomization, or if we want a schedule so detailed, will we have to piece it together by hand?Thank you

Generate the 13 week schedule at random.That should give you 8 divisional games and 5 non-divisional. Odds are very strong that there will be two weeks with 100% non-divisional play. (If you get a result that doesn't have two weeks of 100% non-divisional play, regenerate the schedule).Then use your rules above to determine which Weeks are which.Any week that contains a repeated divisional foe goes to Week 13. Repeat that process until the first 5 weeks contain 4 divisional games and one non-divisional for everyone.The first week on the schedule that is 100% non-divisional is Week 6. The next occurrence is Week 8.