https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfeUS4JE6CYPreliminary stuff for a modern era NFL league game similar to the Retro Football (1965 NFL) I'm finishing up.
17 games. No byes, no travel considerations, no Monday, Thursday or Sunday night football, lol. No historical team standings to consider.
In other words, it's a lot easier to do than what the real NFL schedulers have to do.
I limited randomness which made it easier to code. A Team plays its own division opponents twice. I set predetermined weeks for this to happen. So matching up was simple. Then a team has to play all 4 teams in another randomly selected division of the same conference. Again, I setup 4 predetermined weeks for the team matchups.
Then a random division from the other conference is selected and all 4 teams are played on predetermined weeks. Then finally a team has to play 3 more interconference games for its remaining open slots. All the teams have the same open slots and it was straightforward to match them up.
My first approach was to use a lot of random selection of teams, but I realized there was no point in doing so. The random selection of the other divisions create enough randomness in the schedule.
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