Schedule?

[Jacksonville Jaguars (Jordan)]

When will we know which divisions we will be playing? And when can we make our challenges for Rivalry Week?

[Cincinnati Bengals (Chris)]

I asked Garrett where he was last week, and he sounded busy. If he can’t do it, we may have to crowdsource it. I’ll ask again.

[Cincinnati Bengals (Chris)]

Here is the unofficial schedule for divisional pairings/rotations for the 2018 season:

AFC North: NFC East, AFC West
AFC South: NFC North, AFC East
AFC East: NFC South, AFC South 
AFC West: NFC West, AFC North

NFC North: AFC South, NFC South
NFC South: AFC East, NFC North
NFC East: AFC North, NFC West
NFC West: AFC West, NFC East

Assists to Jordan and Garrett on doing these this year. Please pay close attention to who you can play and who you cannot (i.e. you cannot challenge a team to play in Week 1 if you are already playing them in the regular season. This includes your rotational matchups above, as well as your own division, obviously) re: Rivalry Week. We'll get the schedule done this week, but this at least gives us enough to get our Week 1 Rivalry Week going, which we will post in the morning.

[Cincinnati Bengals (Chris)]

I have uploaded the schedule to Fantrax. If you have any questions about your schedule, perhaps these can answer your question:

1. Intra-conference schedules are on a 3-year rotation (As you can't play your own division once more than one year, so you rotate between playing your 3 conference divisions). So to see why your intra-conference schedule is the way it is, look back at 2015.
2. Inter-conference schedules are on a 4-year rotation (Because you rotate between playing all four of your opposite conference's divisions). So to see why your inter-conference schedule is the way it is, look back at 2014.
3. Home and away have been flipped from the last matchup between teams, and we will continue to do this in future for consistency.
4. Which week each team plays each other is on a rotation, based on the week the two teams last played each other (In other words, if you played ARI played ATL in Week 5 of their matchup last time, they would play in Week 2 this time, Week 3 next time, and Week 4 the following time, etc.). This includes division matchups.
5. Cross-conference play is first this year, before intra-conference play, as the pattern seems to go two years of cross-conference from weeks 2-5, and then two years of intra-conference from weeks 2-5.

Anything else I haven't answered, please feel free to ask, and I'll be glad to answer it for you. Also, if you observe ANY errors, please let me or one of the other LMs know.