drdiags":e3hx6w1h said:
seahawk12thman":e3hx6w1h said:
Why do we play one team in the NFC North at home two years in a row?
Probably how we ended up playing in Chicago 3 out of 4 years. I think there are schedule forecasts that go out for 5-6 years based on the NFL Scheduling algorithm but I never understood why those Chicago games happened like they did. Figured they would alternate.
The way the schedule works is that the home/away alternating is based on what postion you are in, and not which teams, so for those two games, you can play the same team in the same city multiple years, by finishing in different positions....with the Bears, sometimes we were matching with them as 2nd seed, sometimes as 3rd seed...it just varied, thus always getting them at home.
Last year, we were 2nd in seeding, next year we'll be first, so we get the home game both times. It's an anomaly in the schedule but it's not really a big deal overall IMO