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This will be the 5th year where the PAFL schedule is based on what the NFL used when there were 28 teams in the league. The reason we switched to copying the NFL schedule was that it meant that basically every team will play every other team every 3 years (note there are exceptions involving teams that consistently finish 5th in their division).
This year we will be basing the PAFL schedule on the NFL's 1980 schedule. This year features the NFC East playing the AFC West, the NFC Central playing the AFC Central, and the NFC West playing the AFC East. The exception to this are teams that finished 5th last year Dallas, Detroit, Miami, and Denver. The 5th place teams play the 2 other 5th place teams in the other Conference once and play the 5th place team in their own conference twice.
Teams in the same Conference that finished 1st and 4th play each other from the other Divisions in their Conference as do teams that finish 2nd and 3rd. 5th place teams play teams in their Conference from the Division with only 4 teams to round out their schedule.
The wrinkle is that the PAFL has a 17 game schedule. In order to keep things simple as far as balancing out home-field advantage, this year all of the NFC teams will be home this extra week. Next year the AFC will be home for this extra week. The extra game matches up teams based on how they finished in their Conference last year. This extra game was added to the first week of our schedule.
That's the process for creating our schedule. Next year we will use the 1981 schedule and flip the home and away teams.
I tried to double check everything but an error is always possible. Let me know if you find one.
Posted on 23 Dec 2024 by Bears
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