re: Two Additional games.. Is not the next 2 rotating Cross Divisional games

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composed by the league office using strength of schedule

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How can you determine strength of schedule when nobody’s played a game yet? This better be 1) done by a computer formula and no human committee, 2) EXTREMELY transparent, and 3) with Sankey prepared to stand at a podium in front of a camera ready to explain the methodology and answer any questions that may be posed to him.

I understand not wanting to mess up future season schedules. I’d even be for something as random as drawing teams out of a hat. But when they invoke the completely subjective “strength of schedule,” we’ve got to know how that strength was evaluated, who evaluated it, and what metrics were used to evaluate it.