Fantasy Football Schedule Generator

How the schedule is built

The schedule is a round-robin built with the circle method. Seat the teams around a table with one seat fixed. Each week, pair every team with the team across from it, then rotate everyone except the fixed seat one place. In a league of n teams (n even) that gives n − 1 weeks. In each one every team plays exactly once, and across all of them every team meets every other team exactly once. We call one such week a round. A 12-team league has 11 rounds.

Here is a six-team league over a five-week season, straight from the tool. Every team appears once a week, and each pair meets once:

Count it: each team plays 5 games, and each pair meets once. The tool's Schedule check panel makes the same counts on whatever you build, from the schedule itself.

Odd leagues and byes

With an odd number of teams someone has to sit each week. The tool adds an invisible extra team; whoever draws it has the bye. Over one full cycle every team sits exactly once. Five teams, five weeks:

Each team has one bye and 4 games. Over a longer season the byes stay balanced too: no team sits more than once more than any other.

Seasons longer or shorter than a round-robin

A season rarely matches the round-robin exactly. With a 12-team league and a 14-week season there are 11 rounds to fill 14 weeks, so 3 rounds are played twice. With 16 teams and 14 weeks there are 15 rounds for 14 weeks, so one round is skipped and every team misses one opponent. Either way the rule is the same: no pair meets more than once more than any other pair. In the tool, a 12-team, 14-week league has pairs meeting 1–2 times, and a 16-team, 14-week league 0–1 times.

Rematches are spread out: the schedule never sends the same two teams against each other in back-to-back weeks. The Schedule check panel shows the count, and it stays at zero.

Divisions, and how division games are weighted

Choose 2 divisions (any league from 4 teams) or 4 divisions (8, 11, 12, 15 or 16 teams, so the divisions come out equal). Divisions are cut from the top of your list in equal blocks: with two divisions, the first half of the list is Division A. If the teams do not split evenly, the last division is one team short and one team has the bye each week.

With divisions, the tool builds the round-robin so that some weeks are (nearly) all division games: each division plays its own round-robin at the same time, then divisions play across. That is what lets it weight the season. Extra weeks go to division rivals first, and when the season is short, non-division opponents are dropped first. A 12-team league with two divisions over 14 weeks has division rivals meeting 1–2 times and everyone else once. At 16 teams and 14 weeks, every division rival still meets once, and the one skipped round is a cross-division round.

Rivalry week

Pick a rivalry week and the teams listed next to each other meet that week: the first team plays the second, the third plays the fourth, and so on. List real rivals next to each other and the week takes care of itself. In an odd league the last team listed has that week's bye. The rivalry week is one of the schedule's normal rounds, moved to the week you choose, so it does not disturb the balance.

Print, CSV and share

• Print gives a clean sheet of the view you have open: the week-by-week cards, or the team grid with one row per team.
• CSV (one row per game) has a Week, Team A, Team B row for every game and a BYE row for every bye. CSV (team grid) has one row per team and a column per week, ready for a spreadsheet.
• Copy link to this schedule saves the team list, the number of weeks, the divisions and the rivalry week in the address, so a leaguemate opens the same schedule. Nothing is uploaded.
• Highlight a team tints one team's games so you can find your own week fast.

The same list and settings always build the same schedule; there is no random draw here. If you want a random arrangement first, shuffle the list with the draft order randomizer and paste it in. Weeks run from 4 to 18.

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