18 Game Schedule.. Good or Bad?

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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

4. Provide some kind of incentive for playoff-bound teams to play starters during the final weeks of the regular season. My suggestion - have the last 4 weeks of a teams schedule be divisional games.

I like this idea.

Also, keep in mind Ease of Schedule could be made much more equitable with 2 more games.

The way the schedule is currently set up is that you have 6 rivalry games and then you play 2 other divisions of 8 games.
That is 14 games right there out of 16...the other 2 games are typically ones that help a little with ease of schedule issues depending on prior year team results. That usually doesn't make things equitable.

This system does not currently work well....with 2 more games, ease of schedule would be a better fit.

(I know...you guys may say a last placed team in one division plays last in another...but that doesn't mean that team sucks....sometimes they are 8-8...otherwise explain why our 4-12 team has such a hard schedule!)