Bye Weeks, NFL Bias?

[coult44]

The way the NFL handles bye weeks is an a bias that’s hidden in plain site for everyone to see. I’m not a huge conspiracy guy, and I don’t believe the NFL dictates wins. But every single thing they do is for a reason. It’s an unfair advantage for teams to have byes this late in the season. Especially when there were weeks when only two teams were scheduled off, and when week eight was skipped altogether.

There’s no reason division games should be played against the same teams two out of three weeks in a row when one is on a bye the week before. Not this late in the season.

I’m not a fantasy player, but this is the time of year late byes could make or break a fantasy team getting to the playoffs.

This is a move where Vegas and/or big money is almost certainly involved.

 

[sunalsorises]

There are a lot of moving parts in making a schedule. I imagine trying to schedule byes in a favorable way for certain teams is not one of them.

 

[jazzcat22]

Not a fan of byes this late in the season. They used to be over by T-Day.

No fan of any team will ever be happy with the scheduling. Seemed Dallas was always getting screwed over in some way. But the last 4 or 5 years overall it really has not been too bad. Still too many road games in December as opposed to home games. Except this year I think it is about even, slightly in favor of home games for once.

Dallas always ended the season with far more road games than home, and since 2000, they finished at home maybe 8 times. But never 2 games at home. Quite a few times with 2 on the road, or 2 of 3.

Always a road trip before the T-Day game. Remember a few years back or so, they had a raid game on a Sunday night before the T-Day game.

Eagles had a few years where they had 3 straight road games. I think a few involved a lot of flying miles as well. Bengals had that before also when playing the AFC West. 3 road games flying many miles. 2 to the west coast split with a trip but still some good amount of flying miles.

 

[thunderpimp91]

The only thing that really bugs me are the super early bye weeks. Getting a week 5 bye is probably the worst thing that could happen for a team unless they get hit with the injury bug early on. Teams with a bye next week are a combined 5-6 over the last couple weeks with Denver still to play tonight. I'm cherry picking here to fit the argument but for the teams over 500 right now.... Baltimore is 1-2 over their last three games. Washington is 1-3 over their last four. Houston is 2-3 over their last 5. Denver 2-2 over their last four games. Its tough to play 13 straight games and these teams appear to be losing more recently than they have on the year overall. Might be something to watch from those week 5 and 6 byes as they have the same long stretch just the opposite way.

I wish they would just get to a 20 week 18 game schedule already and get each team and early bye and a late bye.

 

[nate dizzle]

All I know is that everything that happens that impacts Dallas negatively is done with purposeful malice.

But yeah, bye weeks this late are a PIA for fantasy football players. Bonus: I need a W this week and Lamar is on bye for my opponent

 

[Tangle_Foot]

Bias? We are a bye week

 

[DallasEast]

My opinion is in the tiny minority believing all teams should have a single, simultaneous bye week. No team would then have a 'bye week' advantage or disadvantage.

I have also discussed the Pro Bowl be played at the season midway point like the other major professional sports leagues. That idea has been shot down in the past over possible injury concerns, which is a very real possibility.

Of course, the Pro Bowl has basically de-evolved into a flag football contest. And the top players still skip it anyway. So I am not certain old counterarguments hold as much weight as they did 20+ years ago.

 

[csirl]

The Cowboys chose their own Bye-week. It always coincides with the US F1 Grand Prix in Texas. If you want to know our future bye weeks - check the F1 schedules for the next couple of years.

 

[MarcusRock]

You know your team is not competitive when you move off the refs trying to screw your team to bye week bias in general. It's almost lonely around here without the opportunity to defend the refs, lol.

 

[Majic]

The Cowboys chose their own Bye-week. It always coincides with the US F1 Grand Prix in Texas. If you want to know our future bye weeks - check the F1 schedules for the next couple of years.

Well spotted. My son spotted this earlier this year, so Cowboys bye in 2025 with be October 19th, so will be either week 6 or Week7 depending if Season starts 7th or 14th September

 

[blueblood70]

The way the NFL handles bye weeks is an a bias that’s hidden in plain site for everyone to see. I’m not a huge conspiracy guy, and I don’t believe the NFL dictates wins. But every single thing they do is for a reason. It’s an unfair advantage for teams to have byes this late in the season. Especially when there were weeks when only two teams were scheduled off, and when week eight was skipped altogether.

There’s no reason division games should be played against the same teams two out of three weeks in a row when one is on a bye the week before. Not this late in the season.

I’m not a fantasy player, but this is the time of year late byes could make or break a fantasy team getting to the playoffs.

This is a move where Vegas and/or big money is almost certainly involved.

No no they're not there is no direct involvement with the NFL colluding to allow Vegas to pick the schedules in the bye weeks most of it is done randomly but they can only make so many random schedules what they do I don't know how many they make like 75 scenarios and then they pick the ones think would work best for ratings yes ratings not Vegas there is no owners or betters or colluding going on with Vegas picking schedules in biweeks I'm sorry the conspiracy theories have to stop yes ratings trying to get the best matchups at the right times that is why they use randomizers to figure out a bunch of different schedules and then they pick the schedules they like the best and then they vote on them there is a board that does this but Vegas has nothing to do with it unless you're looking for the best matchups of course maybe Vegas has something to do with it but not directly this gets old with people saying this..

And by the way this happens with the Cowboys sometimes the Cowboys have played two schedules in the same year they had to play three games in 12 days or they came off a game where they played Sunday Thursday and then had to play the following Thursday and didn't get the 10 days rest these things are random but I don't wanna hear Chris Jones complaining about having to play three games in 12 days or whatever it is because the Cowboys do that every year around Thanksgiving but we've had done it two times in one year more than once and didn't even get the full days rest

 

[links18]

Is it fair? No, but neither is life. Intentional bias? I doubt it.

 

[DFWJC]

Don't have to read a thread with the word "bias" in it to know that it is implied that the bias is somehow against Dallas.

This forum is predictable, if anything.