NFL Bubble

[broncofan48]

2 hours ago, lancerman said:

This is how I would have done it. 
 

Premise: Each season is based off 6 divisional games, 4 inter conference game’s, 4 out of conference games, and 2 placement games. 
 

Solution.... phased bubbles. 
 

Phase 1: Inter conference bubbles 

4 bubbles consisting of 8 teams in each. IE, the AFC East and the AFC West are one bubble where over 4 weeks all the teams play each other. Same with the AFC North and AFC South, etc. 
 

1 week bye

Phase 2: Outer Conference Bubbles 

4 bubbles 8 teams. Same idea as the last time except in this case it will be divisions matched up with the division outside the conference that they are paired with. IE the AFC East and NFC West are one bubble and the NFC South and AFC West are matched up. 
 

1 week bye

Phase 3: placement bubbles.

8 bubbles, 4 teams in each. You play the teams that finished in the same spot in the conference within their division. IE all 1st place teams, all 2nd place teams, etc. this will only last two weeks 

1 week bye 

Phase 4: Divisional Bubbles 

The year finishes out with 8 bubbles with the 4 teams of a division in each. This will last 6 weeks and comprise of the regular season ending with divisional races that will be the most impactful to playoff placements 

Regular season ends. It took 19 weeks and you had 3 league wide byes in the middle to give players a rest and the league time to reconfigure bubbles Liz 

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Playoffs: 

2 bubbles. An NFC and AFC one. As with the NBA you have teams that lose, leave the bubble. Then it all ends with a Super Bowl you can play anywhere 

I had a similar idea except do 2 week byes between the “bubbles” and do away with the 2 non division related games