That’s torture

It’s done electronically there’s a video

A husband and wife did it by paper for 20 years.

@@KMcNally117 that would’ve been an absolute grind

@@911___________DIVOC Just because it isn't wildly popular or mainstream doesn't give you the right to call millions of people "no one."

Also, every team must one primetime game, which is why Thursday Night is a dumping ground.

Every team is required to have one thursday night football game so that's why they put trash games there

I thought Jags vs Titans/Texans was the objective

I mean they probably have maybe one good TNF game? i think... but I totally agree with you lol

It is but I wish it was Monday night because ESPN always has the worse broadcasters

Also play in the factor that the arenas are also used for concert and other sporting events as well. I am aware the NHL and NBA teams have priority first for home games over concert and other entertainment events.

it depends on who the primary tenant is in the builidng. the nba team may have priority over the nhl team or vice versa which has to be taken into account

I’m sure the NHL and NBA have priority over everything else. The people who do those schedules, while also working around other events at those are paid extremely well, they’re definitely not making peanuts.

I thought it was somewhat well known that NBC bought the MNF package and moved it to Sunday

That’s confirmed in the book “Those Guys Have All The Fun”, when NBC took over SNF, ESPN went for MNF, leaving ABC without NFL.

With more and more people ditching cable, it becomes a bigger issue for MNF not often being on broadcast tv.

@@eddiebellamy7605 Technically, since ABC owns ESPN, they still have football, but I get your point.

@@eddiebellamy7605 If my 'home-team' is playing Monday night, he game will be on local broadcast tv.

They used to release the schedule before the draft. Doing so after the draft now doesn’t just add a news cycle where the NFL is in the headlines, it also allows them to ensure that the key draft storylines are somehow reflected in the scheduled.

Computer science. It’s a task scheduling problem with conflict optimization. You’ll never get it “right”, but you have to do the best you can. You could learn it.

There used to be people that did this job there was a video I saw about an old couple that used to make the NBA schedule

Seems boring af really.

@@johnsalem1795 Depends if your a hardcore NFL person this could be awesome... trying to argue the proper timing for primetime matchups... like TBvs NE in Week 4.... both teams are likely to walk in 2-1 or 3-0 based on early schedule indicators. However, New England is projected to compete for a wildcard while Tampa is a Super Bowl projected contender. Therefore the later in the season it goes the more of mismatch it might seem to the casual viewer. Nevermind the underlying storylines... like Mac Jones starting for New England is more likely to happen later in the season if at all. A major star could get hurt and derail the contest entirely.

The appeal of this is like putting a 1000 piece puzzle together. But the pieces are three dimensional. And they all have powerful attracting and repulsing magnets.

Who needs software when you have pistachios! What a legend haha

@@911___________DIVOC get with the times, Clive

Can you create your own schedule with axis?

@@rafa57games i wish but no it has a default 32 team schedule just like the nfl. you can however put your custom teams in the league and choose their division and conference

Ehh i think its just something thats bound to happen

I think it’s impossible to not have one

I think this is possible if you cram them into the first six weeks, though I seriously doubt it would ever happen

Given that there’s 96 divisional games and only 18 weeks, it’s not surprising

@@LplusRatioplusNobodyCares Not theoretically - you could have 6 all-divisional game weeks, and then no divisional games for the other 12 weeks - but sure, that's purely a theoretical scenario, it will almost surely never happen. On the practical level, the past seasons there were no in-division games on weeks 3 (www.nfl.com/schedules/2020/REG3/) and 4 (www.nfl.com/schedules/2020/REG4/).

Yeah, but it really glazes over the #1 problem, and that's regardless of how fair the schedule is via the computer, it still gets modified by higher ups because "oh we need to have these teams playing on prime time" which by default removes a bit of that fairness. I mean I get it there are some teams in certain years you dont want in Primetime because... well they suck... but by doing that you really do skew the fairness aspect of things, and show that it really is all about the money primarily. I mean if my team didn't have a single prime time game, as a fan I don't care I still get to watch my team every week, it only matters for the networks, and then also for certain owners who have more power than others it seems, ultimately those teams are popular by virtue of them making sure they are always in the limelight.

I hear you but even on that front is wishy washy. Bengals and Jets have been trash for several years but they each got a couple primetime games last year. Broncos have been mediocre since Manning retired and Broncos got 4 primetime games last year including a Sunday night battle against chiefs. It’s an inconsistent rubric to be honest

But did they mention that they couldn’t have done it without AWS

@@szn1580 they had new QBs

Jets and broncos didn’t

What you didn't want to see Bortles 6 times in prime time?

Uh oh....

I think that they were Aaron on the side of caution?

Rodgers could still screw everything up for them, and I'll be laughing to the bank if it happens (Broncos fan).

@@Riley_Mundt The only way he goes to Denver is if he retires and then unretires. You have 0 draft capital and Miller and Bridgewater is not that good of a trade.

As a Broncos fan I'm crossing my fingers he and GB takes their deal.

Rodgers aint going nowhere

@@Riley_Mundt well at least you got russ

@@jakefromstatefarmtheog lol

ya that didn't age well 💀

yeah, but if you used a computer to run through every combination, then the sudoku game becomes easy.

Not funny

sounds like a pissy little eagles fan

@@cameramike2515 actually it is pretty funny and true

@@cameramike2515 not funny 🤓🤓🤓

@@thepeytondog fax

Yeah... As a NBA fan, I love to see that. But I guess building a MLB schedule is much difficult...

@@ramuelcruzada3207 my best guess is that they just use a randomizer for the NBA and MLB that follows the rules, because 82 or 162 games per team just seems impossible

@@liamskidmore5926 The MLB schedule was done by hand until the early 2000's www.espn.com/watch/player?bucketId=9410&id=52815513-8535-4f11-b4aa-278b9389ff11

It is actually easier, due to the bigger number of games. Less scarcity. Less 'per game' importance.

Leagues with more games in the season might be easier. The schedulers have a full week to stick games in, rather than just three or four days that most NFL games are usually played on. Once you get past what the various national networks want, the rest is probably just filling in around dates that arenas aren't available. What might be more frustrating is that the NBA, for example, is more likely to mess with how they want to do their schedules, and do that more often. The NFL is slow to change, and Baseball is practically an iceberg in comparison.

Not a bad idea I always love seeing those

I remember week 1 TNF Panthers vs Broncos the year after the Super Bowl

It's not

Not possible to guarantee, but it's worth considering as a tiebreaker for good schedules, maybe?

@@rrivierareject03 isn’t there an “extra” game that is sort of picked at random?

is it really an "off year" if it happens every year?

@@luked8449 not really; they were good 10 years ago

@@luked8449 They were 10 - 6 in 2015 - 2016 so they were good, just not good enough.

Yeah but the NFL having less games has forced them to make every game as high quality as possible. Baseball teams are fine with having 100+ games that are shitty and boring and unwatchable with empty stands, but thats because they’re playing 100+ games anyway. Because it *is* easier to organize 32 teams into an 18 week schedule, one game per week + a bye week, there are a lot more demands from both teams and broadcasters. So, each game in the NFL has expectations in a way that something like basketball or baseball simply don’t. It’s the difference between a lake that’s 10 miles wide and 2 feet deep,, or a lake that’s half a mile wide and 200 feet deep, if that makes any sense.

@@DoctorCyan I mean I kinda agree, but the schedule is made out ahead of time. Like I could tell you who every team will face no matter what after week 18 next year. Won’t know when or what day, but they already have the matchups made, so it’s literally just slot and place

@@DoctorCyan”boring and unwatchable” that’s the best description of baseball I’ve ever seen.

Blah blah blah Who cares

For the schedule makers that game was one of the greatest successes of all time. Yes, both teams were bad the year before and the Jets continued to be bad that season, but from a storyline perspective it was great. Rookie QB vs. rookie QB, first win in 20 games for Cleveland, 14 point comeback by the number 1 pick coming in in the middle of the game for his first game like it's a wrestling storyline and two massive interceptions in the last two minutes in a one possesion game. For the schedule it doesn't matter that both teams are bad, it probably was better that they were both at a similar low level to allow a close game than if a good team blows one of these teams away. The Jets played only two prime time games that season, their season starter on monday night where they outscored the Lions by 31 points, the sort of debut performance from Sam Darnold that has people hoping he can become good after three bad seasons, and this loss to Cleveland were the Brown's loosing streak ended. The rest of that season the Jets were well hidden at 1:00 PM on sunday.

True same that would be cool to see

It’s just very difficult to make a schedule perfect in terms of that kind of fairness. If you take the time to look at the list at 10:27, there are things that take much higher priority and are absolute musts compared to things like bye-week fairness. It takes that into consideration but other things get priority. And if you watch later at 13:37 the fairness score (lower being more fair) of a very-good schedule was 3000+, meaning it’s incredibly rare to find an even close to perfectly fair schedule.

It's weird but understandable when you look at the other parity games

I think if you put too many division games toward the end of the season, you could end up having a lot of meaningless games among division opponents, because one team could have the division wrapped up with 3 weeks to go in the season.

@@williamshultz4620 That's definitely a risk, but I'm thinking that oftentimes the division games are the ones that determine the division winners, so if you delay those, then it's more likely that at least one of them per team will help determine the division. Also, wild card positions are often determined by division record and position within the division, so many of them are still very relevant at the end of the season.

@@jasonfischer8946 yes divisional tiebreakers are to be decided before you would apply wildcard tiebreakers against another team in the conference. I guess to me it would depend on the recent track record of a certain division. Like when Brady was in New England, it was New England winning and usually in unconvincing fashion. So you woulda ended up with New England with a cakewalk to finish the season with only home field to decide and in that case maybe have them play a against a more competitive team in the conference 2nd or 3rd last week of the season at least.

Or the NHL or MLB schedules.

The MLB gets away with series, and both leagues don't have conditional matchups

@@insertcolorherehawk3761 Yeah, the MLB schedule is released before the end of the previous season.

Yea!

To my knowledge there are no byes during the first or last 4 weeks of a season....at least that’s what I’ve seen from previous seasons since I heard about it

Teams have to agree to play in London and falcons were willing to give up a game to go on the practice

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