NFL Schedule & Bye Weeks

[eliasond]

Interesting schedule release last night, including Packers-Vikings at US Bank Stadium Week 1! Hopefully there will be fans there...

Any idea when the bye weeks will be loaded into the player lists in the draft room? Meantime it's a bit tedious cross-referencing manually.

[Darik B]

We're working on adding bye weeks right now.

[Darik B]

Dojne...refresh an open draft room

[eliasond]

Got 'em - thanks for the promptness!

[eliasond]

This is the first time in I don't know how long that there will be a Week 13 bye week. That creates an interesting dynamic for the Cutline. The 1st playoff rd is Weeks 10-12 combined pts. That minimizes some of the impacts of the byes in those weeks. But then Week 13 is all by itself as the 2nd rd of the playoffs, with Carolina and TB on bye. If you have a couple of those players on your Cutline team it could be over for an otherwise pretty good team. What does everyone else think about this change in schedule?

[Henry Muto]

This is the first time in I don't know how long that there will be a Week 13 bye week. That creates an interesting dynamic for the Cutline. The 1st playoff rd is Weeks 10-12 combined pts. That minimizes some of the impacts of the byes in those weeks. But then Week 13 is all by itself as the 2nd rd of the playoffs, with Carolina and TB on bye. If you have a couple of those players on your Cutline team it could be over for an otherwise pretty good team. What does everyone else think about this change in schedule?

It happened in 2016 when Cleveland Tennessee both were on bye. It didn't matter all that much that year because there were very few fantasy players from those teams and no high draft picks and certainly not to the level of CMC top 2 pick and Evans/Godwin types.

This affects the cutline for sure but in other contests it is a real killer. Week 13 is either playoffs or league championship game in those other contests making taking a guy like CMC #1 overall an absolute killer. Even taking an Evans/Godwin type a real killer.

Now for cutline it isn't so bad at all yes you lose them that week but that is the easiest of all weeks to advance in the playoffs the highest number of teams advance week 13.

It's the other 2 big contests that this is beyond terrible the NFFC is in great shape 13 week regular season doesn't hurt as much though it sucks to miss your best players if you need to win week 13 to make the playoffs.