NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

[OpIv37]

It's not just paranoia. We really do face more teams coming off extended rest than anyone else.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/06/29/science-says-nfl-schedule-makers-hate-the-bills-love-the-bengals/

[better days]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

Pegula has started to exert some influence in the NHL.

Lets hope he can do the same in the NFL in short order.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/showthread.php/229170-Teams-that-have-extra-time-to-prepare-for-us?highlight=

Week 2 - Patriots (Play Thursday week 1)
Week 4 - Giants (Play Thursday week 3)
Week 5 - Titans (Bye week 4)
Week 9 - Dolphins (Play Thursday week 8, but we're coming off a bye this week)
Week 16 - Cowboys (Play Saturday week 15)

There are 5 games we play this year where our opponents have more time than usually to prepare for us, and of course one of those teams is New England (We get extra time when we play them later in the season). While it sucks that stuff like this happens, it has to happen to somebody. No excuses, play like a champion.

[JoeMama]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

It's not just paranoia. We really do face more teams coming off extended rest than anyone else.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...e-the-bengals/

Interesting.

Now that the franchise as filed a formal complain about this issue, will the NFL make any adjustments for the sake of parity?

My guess is no since Roger Goodell is only concerned with name QB's like Marsha, Marsha, Marsha, and saving his own ass from all the **** he's constantly screwing up.

He has such enormous image problems to overcome, I highly doubt he does much of anything to improve the sport of football in anyway shape or form.

[better days]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/sho...-us?highlight=



There are 5 games we play this year where our opponents have more time than usually to prepare for us, and of course one of those teams is New England (We get extra time when we play them later in the season). While it sucks that stuff like this happens, it has to happen to somebody. No excuses, play like a champion.

It is a proven FACT, teams with extra time off fare better & are harder to win against.

And when the Bills do get extra time off against the Fins, it is negated somewhat because they play on Thursday the week before.

The Bills schedule SUCKS.

[OpIv37]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

http://www.billszone.com/fanzone/sho...-us?highlight=



There are 5 games we play this year where our opponents have more time than usually to prepare for us, and of course one of those teams is New England (We get extra time when we play them later in the season). While it sucks that stuff like this happens, it has to happen to somebody. No excuses, play like a champion.

In any given season, some teams are going to be hit harder on this than others. And sometimes it'll be our turn to be one of those teams. I get that.

But it's been proven that the extra rest gives teams a competitive advantage, and it's been working against us since 2002. Why should the Bengals almost never play teams with extra rest while we have to do it 3-5 times a season? It's probably impossible I make it 100% equal, but the league has to do something so it's not so lopsided.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

It is a proven FACT, teams with extra time off fare better & are harder to win against.

And when the Bills do get extra time off against the Fins, it is negated somewhat because they play on Thursday the week before.

The Bills schedule SUCKS.

If the Bills don't make the playoffs, it won't be because of the schedule.

[OpIv37]

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If the Bills don't make the playoffs, it won't be because of the schedule.

Yeah? What if we lose two games to more rested team by less than 1 score and then miss the playoffs by one game? It can't be blamed completely on the schedule but you can't realistically deny that the schedule was a factor.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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Yeah? What if we lose two games to more rested team by less than 1 score and then miss the playoffs by one game? It can't be blamed completely on the schedule but you can't realistically deny that the schedule was a factor.

The article you posted states that an engineering professor noted a statistical anomaly of 4% in favor of teams with extra rest. This would mean that 4 games out of every 100 games where the Bills play a team with extra rest we lose when we should have actually won. If we play...let's say 5 games against teams with extra rest per season, that equates to 1 extra loss every 5 years. If you take into account the fact that we have games with extra rest 2 times per season (which is the minimum for a bye week and Thursday night game), then that number changes to 1 extra loss every 8.333 years.

If you take the Bills recent history of ineptitude into account, with the fact that we're rarely 1 game out of the playoffs, you could argue that this scheduling has actually helped us get better through the draft when we have that extra loss. Maybe we should've gone 4-12 instead of 3-13 and we never would've had a shot at drafting Dareus. It's a ridiculous example, but who the hell knows.

The sample size for this article (2009-2013) is not big enough, in my opinion, to really hold water anyway. Still though, I'm not going to get all up in arms over a possibility that we've lost 1 game over the last 8 years that we should've won because of our opponents extra rest. We blow games for 100 other reasons besides that as I'm sure you know.

[Mr. Pink]

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People love to overstate how much the bye week gives an advantage to the resting team.

It's pretty irrelevant to be honest.

http://walterfootball.com/betting_bye.php

Teams coming off a bye are 167-156. A 51.7% winning percentage.

[better days]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

If the Bills don't make the playoffs, it won't be because of the schedule.

If the Bills don't make the playoffs, it well could be because of the schedule.

The "I want Brady to play so we can beat the best" is the same type of crazy BS thinking.

The difference between making the playoffs or not could well come down to ONE GAME.

A game Brady plays in when he was supposed to be suspended or a game against a team like Giants or Cowboys with extra rest could well be the difference between the playoffs or no playoffs.

[better days]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

People love to overstate how much the bye week gives an advantage to the resting team.

It's pretty irrelevant to be honest.

http://walterfootball.com/betting_bye.php

Teams coming off a bye are 167-156. A 51.7% winning percentage.

51.7% is a WINNING percentage for those that do not understand that.

In other words it MATTERS.

People say the Patriots didn't have to cheat.

Well, they CHEATED for that SMALL ADVANTAGE it gave them.

[Joe Fo Sho]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

If the Bills don't make the playoffs, it well could be because of the schedule.

The "I want Brady to play so we can beat the best" is the same type of crazy BS thinking.

The difference between making the playoffs or not could well come down to ONE GAME.

A game Brady plays in when he was supposed to be suspended or a game against a team like Giants or Cowboys with extra rest could well be the difference between the playoffs or no playoffs.

Well you can go ahead and blame the schedule makers if the Bills miss the playoffs by one game. I'll blame the play on the field.

[better days]

Re: NFL schedulers love Bengals, hate Bills.

Well you can go ahead and blame the schedule makers if the Bills miss the playoffs by one game. I'll blame the play on the field.

You can blame that if you want.

But the fact is a number of teams have gotten to the Super Bowl in large part because they had an EASY schedule.

[Joe Fo Sho]

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51.7% is a WINNING percentage for those that do not understand that.

So it effects 1.7 out of every 100 games. That is about 1 game per team every 10-15 years, for those that do not understand that.