Scheduling and Parity

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Rather than draft position, which has a nominal effect, if any in terms of parity and making some of the poor teams more competitive year to year...(eg Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams)

Why not design the schedule so a team that's 11-5 for example to have 11 road games the next season and only 5 home games? Or a 1-15 team gets 15 home games and only 1 road game the next year?
 
Stryker44 said:
Rather than draft position, which has a nominal effect, if any in terms of parity and making some of the poor teams more competitive year to year...(eg Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams)

Why not design the schedule so a team that's 11-5 for example to have 11 road games the next season and only 5 home games? Or a 1-15 team gets 15 home games and only 1 road game the next year?
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That really impacts the fans of the home team and owners revenue. There's no way that would ever fly.
 
So if a team goes 15 - 1, the fans would only be able to attend 1 home game? And how would they make up for the lost revenue? $1,500 for nose bleed seats and $500 beers?
 
Stryker44 said:
Rather than draft position, which has a nominal effect, if any in terms of parity and making some of the poor teams more competitive year to year...(eg Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams)

Why not design the schedule so a team that's 11-5 for example to have 11 road games the next season and only 5 home games? Or a 1-15 team gets 15 home games and only 1 road game the next year?
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lol. Good luck selling that concept. Punishing success always works!!
 
Every other coach and GM being stupider than Belichick isn't something you can really make go away until he retires.

The Patriots also had a harder than average strength of schedule in their Super Bowl runs in 2004 and 2014. They've had about as many easier than average seasons as harder than average seasons... which is about what you'd expect for anybody.
 
How about this......

Instead of playing an entire division from the opposite conference, you play every team that ended up in the same position as you in the divisional standings. Then in their own conference, they play all the teams in one division, and then from the other two divisions, the team that had their same rank.

For instance.

NE was 1st in the AFC East.....so next season, they play Dallas, GB, Atlanta, and Seattle from the NFC. They would play Miami, Buffalo, NYJ twice. Let's say the entire AFC South, and then KC and Pittsburgh.

Conversely, Cleveland would get all the cellar dwellars from the NFC, from 2 divisions in the AFC, their own division twice, and then the teams from the other AFC division.

IMO, this will give the bottom feeders a chance to feed on one another, and potentially build a few of them up with the opportunity to compete for the playoffs and more.


BTW, Dallas would get NE, Pitt, KC, and Houston from the AFC next year, under my plan.....along with their division twice, GB, Seattle, Atlanta and then the rest of the NFC West.
 
Stryker44 said:
Rather than draft position, which has a nominal effect, if any in terms of parity and making some of the poor teams more competitive year to year...(eg Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams)

Why not design the schedule so a team that's 11-5 for example to have 11 road games the next season and only 5 home games? Or a 1-15 team gets 15 home games and only 1 road game the next year?
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Creativity is a good thing....but this idea?
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