Conference Schedule/Championship Tiebreaker - Online Dynasty
I know there has been a lot on conversations on here regarding issues with conference schedules, specifically the imbalance of home and away games (which is a big issue in our league as well). However I wanted to gauge if anyone has had issues with repetitive conference schedules in online dynasty (In our case it is a 6 user league on Xbox). For simple background, we started a 1 star programs and worked our way up the ladder, we currently have 2 teams in ACC, Stanford -HC for 5 seasons & Wake - HC for 2 seasons, and 4 teams in the SEC, Florida - 6 seasons, Texas - 4 seasons, LSU - 4 seasons, Missouri -3 seasons. We keep running into an issue with the same conference schedule each season and imbalanced user games within conference (Ex: Florida has played 3 SEC users each season while LSU/Mizzou/Texas have played one (aka Florida). We've had one non-Florida involved user game in 3 seasons of SEC play). Obviously we have no control over computer conference scheduling, but we tried to shake the algorithm loose by adding a 9th SEC game to see if it would reshuffle opponent/provide more balance in user games. This did not work as Florida still has three users and everyone else in SEC has one (aka Florida).
Breakdown of Florida's regular season SEC opponents over 6 seasons with away games in parentheses:
Alabama 3 (2 road games)
Arkansas 3 (1 road)
Auburn 3 (1 road)
Georgia 6 (All neutral site, not issue given big rivalry)
Kentucky 5 (Zero!)
LSU 5 (4 road games)
Miss St 6 (1 road)
Missouri 5 (5 road games)
Ole Miss 1 (Zero!)
Oklahoma 2 (Zero!)
South Carolina 3 (3 road games)
Tennessee ZERO (No regular season games in big rivalry)
Texas A&M ZERO
Texas 3 (2 road)
Vanderbilt 2 (1 road)
So in 6 seasons he hasn't played at 5 SEC venues (excluding neutral site Georgia) and 4 teams haven't played at The Swamp. Plus Florida has played Missouri/Florida users 9 out of 10 on the road.
Has anyone found a solution to kickstarting to mix up the conference schedules? We obviously have discussed doing divisions (if that would work) and continuing to uptick # of SEC games, but we don't want to keep doing that cause it would prevent us from scheduling our ACC users (or rivalries) if needed. Like to note that in the 5 seasons at Stanford, that user has only played Wake Forest once in that span.
Any insights or help would be greatly appreciated! @EA_Kent
Bonus: For the past 3 seasons, a combination of Texas/Missouri/LSU have tied for 2nd place in SEC (behind Florida) & every year LSU goes to SEC Championship. I saw somewhere that the tiebreaker is alphabetical order. Wondering if there will be an update to this as if we aren't able to play each other H2H then the first letter gets the inside track to Atlanta.
I'll hang up and listen.
