Pieman wrote:
It really does have to be something like this.
Or its "if you want the your two byes through origin, you have to go play NZ on the other week".
Its pretty unfair making them travel and play against a near full strength team.
In saying that, they get an advantage over the rest of the league through all the FTA games and consistent turn arounds each week, so you cant really argue scheduling if youre a broncos fan IMO
maybe you might've had a point in previous seasons, but with the inclusion on Thursday night football, there no clear advantage to our schedule, i did some research on this when the point was made in the fantasy thread, but didn't post it because i didn't want to hijack the thread, but this seems as good as any place for it, i tallied up the turn-arounds for all 16 clubs up until the bye round, and i think it would be reasonable to assume that if we gain a clear advantage from our schedule, it would be very easy to pick out which of the following tallies belong to the broncos:
01) 3 5-day, 1 6-day, 2 7-day, 2 8-day 1 9-day, 1 11-day
02) 3 6-day, 4 7-day, 3 8-day
03) 1 5-day, 4 6-day, 1 7-day, 2 8-day, 2 10-day
04) 2 5-day, 2 6-day, 1 7-day, 3 8-day, 1 10-day
05) 3 6-day, 5 7-day, 2 8-day
06) 2 5-day, 3 6-day, 3 7-day, 1 9-day, 1 10-day
07) 2 5-day, 2 6-day, 2 7-day, 3 8-day, 1 9-day
08) 4 6-day, 4 7-day, 2 9-day
09) 1 5-day, 4 6-day, 3 8-day, 2 9-day
10) 4 6-day, 3 7-day, 2 8-day, 1 9-day
11) 4 6-day, 2 7-day, 3 8-day, 1 9-day
12) 4 6-day, 4 7-day, 2 8-day
13) 2 5-day, 1 6-day, 5 7-day, 1 8-day, 1 10-day
14) 1 5-day, 6 7-day, 3 8-day
15) 1 5-day, 2 6-day, 3 7-day, 3 8-day
16) 3 6-day, 4 7-day, 3 8-day
feel free to take a crack, i'll help you a little bit though, it's not 14, that's the Rabbits' tally.