Interesting article that dives into some scheduling stats (rest days, primetime road games, short weeks) for each NFL team over the last 10 years.
Giants are last in almost every category. Obviously this isn't why we're more or less sucked the last 10 years, but kind of validates the feeling that sometimes the Giants are getting screwed schedule-wise.
Which NFL Teams Have Been Most Impacted By Scheduling Inequalities? - (
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Maybe it’s time to start moving that around.
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The most glaring takeaway should be with regard to the NFC East. The NFC East has two of the teams most negatively impacted by the NFL’s scheduling inequalities (Giants and Eagles) but also has one team that benefits most by the schedule, the Dallas Cowboys. That is extremely unfair and the effect will be further discussed below.
Now THAT is truly fucked up.
Also considering neither the Cowboys nor Lions have made a Superbowl or a NFC title game since the mid 90s, i dont think we need to change anything.
Finally i think its a stretch to say playing a road game on SNF is a disadvantage for the following week. The road MNF point i get, but SNF? nah
Be interesting (but not conclusive in any way) to see correlation between these rankings and records over the same 10 year period.
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But does this really provide a huge advantage. Just look at the teams in the top 10. Have any of those teams really had a huge amount of success this decade?
Be interesting (but not conclusive in any way) to see correlation between these rankings and records over the same 10 year period.
Well just off the top of my head pretty sure that all teams in the top with the exception of cowboys and packers all had a sub 500 record.
1) Playing in a competitive division with a lot of major media markets we get a lot more prime time games than Jacksonville v. Tennessee or Miami v. Buffalo.
2) Sharing a stadium with the Jets increases the likelihood of road games on short weeks because they don't want to give the Jets 3 straight road games to avoid the Giants having a short week road game in the 2nd of 3 weeks.
3) With how compact the NFC East it is less of a concern to schedulers versus with a conference like the AFC West where Chargers could be flying to Kansas City or vice versa. There are some years where we could have as few as 1 game outside of Eastern time zone (if we play all of AFC East or AFC North, all of NFC South with New Orleans game at home, @ Detroit, NFC West game at home).
Likely reasoning is the more successful teams are likely to have more primetime games for obvious reasons and this results in them falling in the bottom half.
There are of course outliers like our beloved Giants.
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The most glaring takeaway should be with regard to the NFC East. The NFC East has two of the teams most negatively impacted by the NFL’s scheduling inequalities (Giants and Eagles) but also has one team that benefits most by the schedule, the Dallas Cowboys. That is extremely unfair and the effect will be further discussed below.
The league wants the cowboys to win, im not surprised by this. Unfortunately nothing will be done.
They do! They can always count on two wins against the Giants as a given.
Giants get the toughest schedule?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Nor would I read too much in to the fact that the same teams are near the top and near the bottom in all four measures, as the measures are obviously highly coupled. [e.g. when your opponent has more than 7 days to prepare, they are very likely to also have more time than you do.]