The schedule for the 2011 season should be out soon.
I started to think about the consequences of a shortened season and came to the below idea.
The league should have 2 schedules worked out.
The first being the regular season they were going to go with over 17 weeks with a bye week for each team.
The second should be based on having a shortened season due to the ongoing CBA dispute.
I think they should schedule like this.
weeks 1 - 4 All Games should be interconference
weeks 5 - 10 All games should be conference games with weeks 7 - 10 inter divisonal games.
weeks 11 league wide bye week
weeks 12 - 17 Divisonal games
This way no team would get an unfair advantage with the tie break rules 1.e. better divisonal, conference record to decide tie breaks if the regular season schedule was used, as a team may miss out on 3 divisional games if the first say 5 weeks are missed.
I haven't looked into what was done in previous strike shortened years but I believe this is the fairest way to go.
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