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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 ...
San Francisco 49 ers' Randy Gregory and San Francisco 49 ers' Javon Hargrave sack Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the first quarter of Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.

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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