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Originally Posted by RaidersOftheCellar
All I've seen are explanations of the systems for scheduling teams. Not for determining home/away. Granted, I haven't read all 19 pages.
How/when are those decisions made?
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When? Years in advance. The system itself gets re-approved every few years, but the schedule system is set like 4 or 5 years in advance.
The in-division games, and other conference games are easy. 3 at home and 3 away for the in-division games, of course. The other confernece, there are 4 teams, so 2 are home and 2 are away, and then 4 years later they are flipped.
The other division and the "same finish in the same conference" are the ones that sometimes have whacky results, but it's a function of the system itself, not someone sitting there and making the conscious decision.
Let's look at the Chiefs in upcoming years, specifically 2020, 2021 and 2022.
The Chiefs play AT Baltimore in 2021. They are ALSO scheduled to play the winner of the AFC North from the prior year AWAY in EACH of 2020 and 2022. So guess what? If the Chiefs and Ravens both finish in the same place in each of 2019 and 2021, then you WILL play them on teh road three years in a row.
But it goes the other way too. In 2020 you WILL play the Patriots at Arrowhead. In 2021 and 2022, you will ALSO play the AFCE team that finished in the same seed the prior year. So if Brady and BB are still going and in first seed all those prior years, and the Chiefs are also first in the prior year, you will HOST the Patriots three years in a row.
Get it?
And that is enough of that ****ing topic. JFC....