League Schedule Discussion

[TrailDucker]

I thought I would present this question to everyone and see what everyone's input is!

So the issues are:

- We have 15 teams per conference

- I want everyone to have an equal amount of games played at the end of the season

- I want everyone to have the same amount of Bye Weeks.

- There are 23 weeks total The final week being Monday-Wednesday so it's three days longer.



So the schedule options are:

A. Last years which was 18 Week Regular Season. Everyone plays 16 games and has 2 Bye Weeks. The very first week of the season two teams total will be playing in each conference and the other 13 teams are all on Bye. The Playoffs rounds will each be one week except for The Finals match up which will span a total of 17 days.

B. The Regular Season will be 15 Weeks. Everyone will play 14 games and have 1 Bye week. There will only be one team on Bye each week. The playoff rounds will be 2 weeks except for the finals which will be 17 days again.

So the question is 2 extra games and 1 extra Bye Week for 1 week long Playoffs and a 2 week long final?
Or
2 less season games and 1 less Bye Week for a shorter season and longer Playoffs?




What's everyone's thoughts?

[Deleted]

I like B personally. I think a two week playoff matchup would be interersting and hopefully the old players aren't sitting out when we start.

[Deleted]

B. 15 teams and 14 game regular season means a balanced and even regular season schedule for everyone. Plus bye weeks suck so one less would be great

[TrailDucker]

Let me give dates:

Option A The Regular Season ends/Playoffs begins March 10th

Option B The Regular Season ends/Playoffs begins February 10th

I will be honest I like Option B in thought more, but I have concerns with ending the regular season that early.

Please more people chime in!

[Deleted]

B is better.
- if you manage the schedule properly, teams will play each other exactly once per year.
- 2 weeks play-offs are more fair.

[Deleted]

B sounds better

[TrailDucker]

I like B more myself because it's less scheduling headache for me and is a bit more "cleaner" as every team plays every team once, but for the sake of this I will state my main few concerns:

- My main concern is the NBA trade deadline being in the middle of the playoffs.

- Another concern is a team in the Playoffs having the ability to dramatically effect their team via a trade with someone who didn't make the playoffs.

- Lastly that leaves teams that didn't make the playoffs just sitting there a whole 2 months rather then 1 month. The main concern about this is the owner turnover from losing interest.

[Oakland Oaks]

I'll move against the grain here. I like squeezing every bit out of the regular season by having it extend into March. I'd hate to see the season end for teams (not mine, of course) right after All-Star weekend when our sport actually picks up the leftover media attention and excitement from the finished NFL season.

I also like having 1 week opening rounds for upset potential and a 2 week final to ensure the best team wins. It seems to balance both enjoyment and fairness.

That being said, the most important thing here is to make sure nobody has to play a team three times during the regular season. Matter of fact, if handled correctly every team should play every other team once plus those two additional match ups. We've had scheduling issues here that have burned me in the past.

Since i voted for A can i play in week 1?

[Deleted]

Longer playoffs are better, and are more accurate for determining a winner... BUT that is far too early to start the playoffs.

I go with option A.

[Deleted]

I think we should do 17 games, with one bye week. We should have one interleague game a week where we keep score on here. But keep the same format for A.

[TrailDucker]

I would love to do interleague games (we could do one each week with the two teams form each Conference on Bye) but that would be too much work for me and the mods honestly speaking.

Like I said I like B in thought more, but I think A is more appropriate because Feb 10th is just too early to end the season and it leaves half the league out of the action for too long. That's my personal opinion

[Deleted]

Since a consolation bracket has been there for the people not in the playoffs, just make it mean something and then those knocked out can still play for something. Say winner of it all gets moved up 5 draft lottery spots or something.

Just think a balanced schedule is worth some teams ending the season early especially in a year where I could see people tanking for Wiggins. Unbalanced schedule means a team might make the playoffs based off of playing a team tanking twice while a team might miss because they happened to play a first place team twice.

[Deleted]

February is way too soon to start the playoffs... Let's go with A

[TrailDucker]

I don't like it effecting draft spots, but maybe The winner of the consolidation bracket gets $5 million in extra in Cap space for the next year? So two teams from each conference get an extra $5 Mil to sign players and/or put in trades.

I would have to find a way to keep the playoff round losers from infiltrating the consolidation bracket in the ESPN sites. But that could be fun for the playoff missers.

[TrailDucker]

It sounds like the argument is basically:

February is too soon to start playoffs and end the season

vs.

It's the most fair for everyone to only play everyone once