Sect309Fan
04-14-2009, 12:57 PM
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20090414_Inside_the_process_of_making_the_NFL_sche dule.html
It thought this article was pretty interesting. There is a whole lot to making the NFL schedule, even though it has the fewest games of any professional sport.
Katz said this year the computer generated about 1.3 million schedules. Of that number, he and his team looked at about 3,500. The 3,500 they looked at were determined by the number of penalty points.
"Of the 3,500 schedules we actually finished, we probably took 50 of them and read them all the way through," Katz said. "What I mean by that is, once we get what we think is a playable schedule, we'll post that and say, 'Here's our leader. This is a schedule we're prepared to play.'
It thought this article was pretty interesting. There is a whole lot to making the NFL schedule, even though it has the fewest games of any professional sport.
Katz said this year the computer generated about 1.3 million schedules. Of that number, he and his team looked at about 3,500. The 3,500 they looked at were determined by the number of penalty points.
"Of the 3,500 schedules we actually finished, we probably took 50 of them and read them all the way through," Katz said. "What I mean by that is, once we get what we think is a playable schedule, we'll post that and say, 'Here's our leader. This is a schedule we're prepared to play.'