So it’s set up by Amazon…for Amazon to make more money. 🥷 Then I guess it makes sense to try to keep the largest-market NY Giants alive longer by scheduling them against the defending NFC Champions for Weeks 16 and 18. 🥷 I guess they figured making it Weeks 17 and 18 might raise eyebrows…
They have over 20,000 “rules” in the algorithm. I would suggest that they simply change the one that says games between the same division opponents should be at least two weeks apart to seven or eight weeks apart (or even just five or six weeks). Just change one number in the algorithm.
[Personally, I’m also not much of a fan of the Week 1 & Week 18 pairing (like Bengals/Browns this season) and would also recommend the addition of a “not more than XX weeks apart” rule (perhaps 12 or 13 weeks). But maybe that’s just me.]