How is the bye week for pro football determined??
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Every team gets a bye week scheduled in by the NFL's schedulers, usually its anytime from week 4 to week 14.
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Lineups are decided by the teams until about 1 hour before the game starts. Then, every site gets the info (mlb, espn and yahoo sports).\n\nIf you're in our fantasy league, check your team's roster out before games start. Each player will have their game time next to their name - that's a link to the preview for the game if we don't have lineups. Or it's a link to the boxscore for the game - with the starters listed - if we do have the official lineups. So that's how you can tell two things - 1: if the lineups are official yet and 2: whether your player is going to start.\n\nAlso, if you have stattracker, which includes live score updates for fantasy - then your players will have 0's next to them if they are in the lineup. Otherwise, they'll have -'s next to them pre-game.
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Money Money Money is your answer\n\nThe first time the Super Bowl was played in February was 2002, following the 2001 season.  There was a week that was cancelled after 9/11, which pushed the Regular season back a week, therefore pushing the playoffs back as well.  \n\nMore recently, the NFL has shyed away from having their opening weekend be the same weekend as Labor Day.  That way, the NCAA can have their own big opening weekend bash, then the NFL can follow suit a week later.  Both of which allow for more money to be made by each organization.  That pushes the start of the NFL season more towards mid September, throw in the 17 week schedule, and your regular season takes you right up to, if not into the new year.  They tinkered with cutting out the week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, but again, that didnt leave them enough time to get things together for the teams or fans, not to mention that it allows the NFL to make more money off the event.  \n\nHope this helps!
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In the NFL during regular season and preseason games there is one overtime period before it is called a tie during the playoffs and championship games there has to be a winner so they will keep playing until there is a winner which could mean 4-5 or any number of overtime periods :)
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They just announced the Finals dates today.\n\nGame 1   @ Buffalo/Carolina Monday, June 5\nGame 2   @ Buffalo/Carolina Wednesday, June 7\nGame 3   @ Edmonton Saturday, June 10\nGame 4   @ Edmonton Monday, June 12\nGame 5*  @ Buffalo/Carolina Wednesday, June 14\nGame 6*  @ Edmonton Saturday, June 17\nGame 7*  @ Buffalo/Carolina Monday, June 19 \n\n*if necessary
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Most NFL teams have it on their websites.  I happen to have one of my favorite player with the teams schedule in the background.
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We won't know anyone schedule next season until this season is over.  I think the NFL post the next season during the pro bowl.
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Along with the divisional realignment before the 2002 season, a scheduling algorithm was set up to ensure that (a) every team would play every other team at least once every four years, and host every other team at least once every eight; and (b) teams in the same division and conference (who would compete with each other for playoff spots) would have schedules as similar as practical, to aid in determining tiebreakers.\n\nThe scheduling algorithm breaks down as follows:  Each team has a 16-game season - six divisional games, six conference games (outside their own division), and four inter-conference games.\n\nThe six divisional games consist of two against each division opponent, one home and one away.\n\nThe four inter-conference games consist of one game against each member of one division in the other conference, two home and two away.  The division pairings rotate in a four-year cycle; it was set up to get as many relevant inter-conference games played early in the cycle as possible.  By this, I mean that the AFC West was paired with the NFC West in the first year, so that Seattle (which had been moved to the NFC) would be "eased" out of its old division.  Similarly, the AFC South was paired with the NFC East, so that expansion Houston would host state-mate Dallas in its first year (actually, in its first ever regular-season game).\n\nAs for the six conference games, four of them are played against all of one other division, two home and two away; the divisions are rotated every three years for this purpose.  This year, both East divisions play every team in their conference's South division, and the Norths play the Wests.  The other two games are determined by order of finish, and are played against the teams in the other two divisions that finished in the same position, one home and one away.  For instance, Philadelphia finished fourth in the NFC East last year; their six conference games consist of the NFC South, and Green Bay (fourth in the North last year) and San Francisco (fourth in the West).\n\nI hope this helps.  Email me if you want the full division rotation.
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There are tie breakers in place.  The first is record, the second is divisional, the third is who won the head to head match-up the forth is record against common opponents and the fifth is points scored and the sixth is points scored against common opponents.\n\nNot positive but I think that's how it goes.
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You must mean Fantasy Draft. It doesn't start until about a month or two before the NFL season starts. Wait until about the start of august and go to NFL.COM. A fantasy draft is when you enter a league and compete against other managers every week of the NFL season until a champion is crowned. I did it for the first time last year and it is well worth the time and effort. You can also partake in one of the fantasy drafts on Yahoo.com but like i said, give it till the beginning of august. An offline draft is just you and whoever you choose to join, if you do the draft on yahoo, then the individual who you elect as the commisioner reports the results to yahoo. Good Luck
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for what I know there is always a bye in the playoffs, but because of the number of teams playing they had to inforce a skip week to allow all the teams to play the same amount of games. Bye is an old cricket term for stealing a pass. When you look at foootball they do steal a free pass by winning, but calling the bye week in the season came way after playoff bye.
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Here is a 19 week schedule so every team plays each team one time\nhttp://www.crowsdarts.com/roundrobin/sched20.html
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Football - 30 hours per week including game time, weight conditioning, practices and meetings.  Season lasts for 14 weeks.
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Depends where.\n\nSome sites you can probably sign up, but you probably won't be drafting until the season nears.\n\nBesides, fantasy football is based on scoring from real live games.  There won't be any games until September.
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A team's bye week is the week when they don't play.  They have the week off.
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Sorry, I missed the game.  Fanball has Driver with 2 catches for 82 yards, including a 48 yard touchdown, so they have also scored it to Green.\n\nWhen I ran a league, I had a rule that the scoring could be changed on Tuesday by the NFL, but on Wednesday morning fantasy scores were final, even if the NFL decided to make a scoring change later in the week.  Also, check your rules for who the official score for your league is (nfl.com or espn.com).  If I were commish of your league, I wouldn't care if you sent me the tivo of the catch, I go by the official score as reported on nfl.com, unless three other sources show nfl.com to be in error.
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The NFL playoffs work in the following fashion. The divisional champions automatically qualify for the playoffs, and each conference has two wildcard teams, that are based on season records, and tiebreakers such as head to head meetings, divisional record, conference record, points differential,  and so on. The first round of the playoffs is called the WildCard Round, because that's when the wildcard teams are playing. The two top teams in each conference are given byes into the next round.  The second week of the playoffs is called the divisional round, because that's when the two top seeds in each conference are playing their first playoff games. The third week of the playoffs\nis the conference championships, where the two teams remaining in each conference battle for the right to represent their conference in the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is currently\ncontested between the champions of the AFC and the NFC, and\nthe winner will be crowned the Super Bowl champion.  If you want a reference, go to this link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs