Inside the 2024 NFL schedule: How the NFL assures fair distribution of top TV games
LOS ANGELES — It's not just coming up with a schedule that works for all 32 teams, the NFL also has the challenge of pleasing its broadcast partners by evenly doling out the premier games. To that end, the league ranks the matchups in terms of quality from 1 to 272. That's entirely subjective, of course, but people can generally agree on top-tier matchups, and the NFL is always careful when ...
by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2024
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — It's not just coming up with a schedule that works for all 32 teams, the NFL also has the challenge of pleasing its broadcast partners by evenly doling out the premier games.
To that end, the league ranks the matchups in terms of quality from 1 to 272.
That's entirely subjective, of course, but people can generally agree on top-tier matchups, and the NFL is always careful when distributing those.
"This puzzle gets harder and harder to solve every year," Michael North, the NFL's vice
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