P. Franchise schedules

P.1 Regular Season
The regular season will last 12 weeks, the first 12 weeks of the NFL season. Each franchise will play six (6) division and six (6) non-division games. Every franchise plays each of their three (3) division opponents twice and six (6) other conference opponents once. Each franchise will NOT play two (2) franchises in their conference each year.

P.2 Schedule Creation

This process will be performed ONE (1) TIME for the Main League and the same schedule will be used for the Minor League.  The RWP has a 14 week schedule printed and cut into 14 separate pieces to simulate each team playing their division opponents twice and each non-division opponent once.  

How it works:

1. The six (6) possible divisional weeks will be placed into a bowl.  The RWP will blindly draw one (1) to determine Week 10's schedule.

2. The RWP will blindly draw another for week 11's schedule (ensuring that opponents are different than Week 10)

3. The RWP will blindly draw another for week 12's schedule (ensuring that opponents are different than Weeks 10 & 11)

4. The remaining three (3) divisional weeks will be set aside temporarily.

5. The eight (8) non-divisional weeks will be placed into the bowl and the RWP will blindly draw two (2) to determine which two (2) opponents will NOT be faced that year.  These two (2) weeks are omitted from our 12 week season.

6. With six (6) non-divisional weeks still in the bowl, the RWP will blindly draw one (1) to determine Week 9's schedule.  This is done to ensure no back to back divisional games against the same opponent.

7. With five (5) non-divisional weeks still in the bowl, the remaining three (3) divisional weeks remaining  from step 4) will be added to the bowl.

8. The RWP will blindly draw the remaining eight (8) weeks in order to determine the matchups for weeks 1-8 of the regular season.

*The above process is performed to provide as much randomness to the matchups each year while maintaining our dramatic three week race for the division titles.  It was decided in April 2014 that more variety to the schedules each year trumped forcing the remaining divisional games to always be played in Weeks 1-3 to avoid the NFL bye weeks.