10-24-2016, 03:02 PM
(10-24-2016, 02:32 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: It doesn't matter. Bengals V Redskins only happens once this year. Someone has to be home and someone has to be away for the schedule to work out.
256 games scheduled a year. 128 home team, 128 away team.
Technically 256 matches means 256 home teams and 256 away teams (because each match has one home team and one away team).
But your general point is 100% correct :-
256 matches with one team the home team in each means 256 home team slots and 32 teams means (256/32) 8 home games per team at the end of the regular season.
256 matches with one team the away team in each means 256 away team slots and 32 teams means (256/32) 8 away games per team at the end of the regular season.
If the three London and one Mexico City game counted as away games for both teams as some have suggested there would be 252 home team slots and 260 away team slots at the end of the season. I.e. you couldn't mathamatically finish with each team having had 8 home and 8 away matches.
The only way every team gets 8 actual home matches in their own stadium is if there are no international matches (my preferred option). But the NFL doesn't want that because it's 32 owners (the team owners) don't want that because they see more $$$$$$ to be made by whoring the league out around the world.
