USFL Scheduling for now and beyond

[Brad (Texas Hellfire)]

I have previously talked about how the division schedule will rotate on a yearly basis, well in getting things ready to put in to ESPN I have found that it becomes even simpler than that. The schedule will be set every year and only week 10 matchups will change from year to year. The teams will not be constant from year to year, but the division positions will be. I have lined everything out in detail below:

Payton Division 1st-4th are numbered 1-4
Sanders Division 1st-4th are numbered 5-8
Brown Division 1st-4th are numbered 9-12

In even years the following matchups do not happen:
1-8, 2-7, 5-12, 6-11, 9-4, 10-3

In odd years the following matchups do not happen:
1-12, 2-11, 5-4, 6-3, 9-8, 10-7

In even and odd years the set of matchups listed above that ARE played will be played in week 10. The rest of the schedule always looks as follows:

Division Matchups:
Weeks 1 and 11: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12
Weeks 2 and 12: 1-3, 2-4, 5-7, 6-8, 9-11, 10-12
Weeks 3 and 13: 1-4, 2-3, 5-8, 6-7, 9-12, 10-11

Non-Division Matchups:
Week 4: 1-5, 2-6, 9-3, 10-4, 11-7, 12-8
Week 5: 1-6, 2-5, 9-7, 10-8, 11-3, 12-4
Week 6: 1-9, 2-10, 5-11, 6-12, 3-7, 4-8
Week 7: 1-10, 2-9, 5-3, 6-4, 11-8, 12-7
Week 8: 5-9, 6-10, 1-7, 2-8, 11-4, 12-3
Week 9: 5-10, 6-9, 1-11, 2-12, 3-8, 4-7
Week 10 as described above

The teams numbers for this year are shown below . . . your schedule will then be above. I am going to change this on ESPN shortly and update the full schedule. Please post below if you approve or see changes you need made. Once a majority of the league has approved then this will be moved to the official league rules.

Thanks!!

Numbering for 2010:

Walter Payton Division:
1 - Irish - 1
2 - Wildcats - 2
3 - Phish - 3
4 - Generals - 4

Barry Sanders Division:
1 - Force - 5
2 - Undertow - 6
3 - Outlaws - 7
4 - M357 - 8

Jim Brown Division:
1 - Pimps - 9
2 - Hellfire - 10
3 - Swamp Dragons - 11
4 - Crush - 12

[Brad (Texas Hellfire)]

It should be noted that the schedule above will be maintained, but your home/road games may not even out for the year. Since there is no advantage/disadvantage to that in our league I am not going to worry about it :-)

[Bill (Fog City Force)]

Brad, very nice work, well laid out!

[Gregg(Seal Fuckers)]

thanks for the work Brad

[Deleted]

Works out pretty well, especially since the matchups are based on team ranks, not necessarily the same team in each slot from year to year. Looks like we will have a healthy amount of randomness in the schedule, while having it easy for LM to maintain.

Thanks, Brad.