Schedule Bias?

[Silver N Blue]

First I apologize if this has been chatted about. Which I am sure it has to some degree. As I have stated in the past I have been a fan for almost 34 years now and for whatever reason the schedule this year really is puzzling to me. I know we have chatted about traveling before the annual TDay game, which also is rare, but look at all of the teams in our division coming out of a bye this year. Every other East team comes out of their own respective bye week with a home game. The boyz open on the road, close on the road, travel on a short week, and to top it off is the only team in the east that has to travel after their own bye week. I just had to get that off my mind. Sometimes you have to sit there and wonder if there really is a bias, because this years schedule and how it was layed out just does not make sense to me.

 

[LeonDixson]

I've wondered in the past how the schedule is developed also. It seems like we've typically had to face a slew of tough teams in December, and for a few years running we had to face a higher than average # of teams coming off their bye weeks. I don't know if its bias or just a rotten luck of the draw.

 

[JBell]

Ratings.. gotta be ratings.

Season on the line... what's gonna draw more viewers?

A match-up vs. the Seahawks? Or a divisional game vs. Philly or NYG with the division up for grabs?

It's not a coincidence.

 

[DL23]

Look at the Giants' schedule. We have nothing to complain about.

 

[Muhast]

Plus we open on the road a lot.

 

[InmanRoshi]

Look at the Giants' schedule. We have nothing to complain about.

The Giants have played easiest schedule in the NFL thus far. They have a harder schedule coming up because all their creampuffs were frontloaded, which is why theyre currently 4-2.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

Plus we open on the road a lot.

this is the one that annoys me the most.

I used to think it was because of the heat, but we have a dome, and still seem to nearly always open on the road.

I think much of it is luck of the draw. there is a formula to it, but I find it annoying that we play the patriots on the and jets on the road, and the iggles get those games at home. the only tough non-division road game the Eagles had was against Atlanta.

 

[Stautner]

First I apologize if this has been chatted about. Which I am sure it has to some degree. As I have stated in the past I have been a fan for almost 34 years now and for whatever reason the schedule this year really is puzzling to me. I know we have chatted about traveling before the annual TDay game, which also is rare, but look at all of the teams in our division coming out of a bye this year. Every other East team comes out of their own respective bye week with a home game. The boyz open on the road, close on the road, travel on a short week, and to top it off is the only team in the east that has to travel after their own bye week. I just had to get that off my mind. Sometimes you have to sit there and wonder if there really is a bias, because this years schedule and how it was layed out just does not make sense to me.

It's still 8 games at home and 8 on the road. Other than having to travel on a short week, I don't think there is a big upside or downside to when those games fall.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

Ratings.. gotta be ratings.

Season on the line... what's gonna draw more viewers?

A match-up vs. the Seahawks? Or a divisional game vs. Philly or NYG with the division up for grabs?

It's not a coincidence.

The NFL has mandated that teams end the season with divisional opponants.

 

[Nova]

I think the Schedule favors us this year.

We started with what should have been one of the toughest game of the season. Then relative cupcakes with WSH, SF, and DET. Then we had 2 weeks to prepare for a tough New England team (albeit, away). Then we had another cupcake, the Rams. Eagles off of their bye always looked like it would suck, but then we get two cupcakes with SEA, and BUF at home before going to Washington, and then get the cream puff Dolphins before a mini bye week preparing us for the best of the bad teams we'd face, The Arizona Cardinals. The first and most important game against the Giants is at home, we have to go to Tampa, then Philly at home.

Honestly I don't think the last game of the season will mean much if we take care of the generously given home game against the Giants the first time around... they're schedule is brutal.

I really think that's about as favorable of a schedule that you could hope for in the NFCE.

Before the year started, the season was set up for us to only lose 3 or 4 games (Jets, Eagles off bye, Maybe tampa, probably the last game of the year since we'd be most likely resting)

 

[tyke1doe]

Ratings.. gotta be ratings.

Season on the line... what's gonna draw more viewers?

A match-up vs. the Seahawks? Or a divisional game vs. Philly or NYG with the division up for grabs?

It's not a coincidence.

I remember a few years back discussions centered around moving more division games near the end of the season because then teams have more to fight for, or at least that was the theory.

 

[tyke1doe]

The Giants have played easiest schedule in the NFL thus far. They have a harder schedule coming up because all their creampuffs were frontloaded, which is why theyre currently 4-2.

And we're 3-3 with an easier schedule down the road.

I think it all works out at the end.

 

[tyke1doe]

this is the one that annoys me the most.

I used to think it was because of the heat, but we have a dome, and still seem to nearly always open on the road.

I think much of it is luck of the draw. there is a formula to it, but I find it annoying that we play the patriots on the and jets on the road, and the iggles get those games at home. the only tough non-division road game the Eagles had was against Atlanta.

I'm not trying to be snarky here, so please don't take this the wrong way. But why would you be annoyed if you know there's a formula to it?

The Cowboys played the Patriots and Jets at home four years ago, and the Eagles played those teams on the road four years ago. So this time around we play them at their homes and the Eagles them at home.

Are you annoy that the rotation didn't favor us this time?

 

[Stautner]

I'm not trying to be snarky here, so please don't take this the wrong way. But why would you be annoyed if you know there's a formula to it?

The Cowboys played the Patriots and Jets at home four years ago, and the Eagles played those teams on the road four years ago. So this time around we play them at their homes and the Eagles them at home.

Are you annoy that the rotation didn't favor us this time?

I think fans just look too hard for anti-Cowboy bias, and if they find something they can just look at on the surface and interperet that way they are unwilling to look deeper.

 

[ArmyCowboy]

I remember a few years back discussions centered around moving more division games near the end of the season because then teams have more to fight for, or at least that was the theory.

Week 16 is primarily divisional games and week 17 is exclusively divisional games this season.

 

[casmith07]

Ratings.. gotta be ratings.

Season on the line... what's gonna draw more viewers?

A match-up vs. the Seahawks? Or a divisional game vs. Philly or NYG with the division up for grabs?

It's not a coincidence.

Well there's that, and the new scheduling rule that sees all teams playing a divisional rival in Week 17.

 

[casmith07]

Plus we open on the road a lot.

What's going to draw more fans to Air Conditioner Stadium against the Jets?

Cowboys @ Jets on Sunday night?

Or something like Browns @ Jets?

 

[casmith07]

Also as a bonus - depending on who wins the division this year with stinky teams rising to the top, we might get Detroit and San Francisco at home next year, with how they do the similar finishers for the two games each year, or something like that.

Anyone have the opponents for next year -- the NFC Division and AFC Division we play plus the common opponent divisions?

I think we play the AFC North (Baltimore on the road, I'll be at that game) and the NFC South.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Look at the Giants' schedule. We have nothing to complain about.

This. I have absolutely no problem with our schedule.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

I'm not trying to be snarky here, so please don't take this the wrong way. But why would you be annoyed if you know there's a formula to it?

why would I be annoyed that the formula produces unsavory results?

because unsavory results are annoying.

I don't mean to be snarky, but that seems like a pretty stupid question.