No I used 1-4 as a placeholder. I could have said A-D or Red1, Red2, Red3, Red4, catch my drift? The same 4 teams rotate against the same other 4 teams in the first 4 games. That's why week 2 (game 2 and 3) is the only week when everyone in the league has a home and an away game exactly. Then, once that rotation is over A-D play against each other...which is why it looks like the same teams are playing each other in the last 3 games (they are!).
Interconference is also done the simplest way, since you have all the teams in the same conference play home or away at the same time. It's like those first 4 games but with 16 teams instead of 8.
Oh and there is indeed one schedule that is the worst possible and it's the team with this sequence A-HA-HA-HA and there is one per conference; second worst is A-HA-HH-AA (I have the opposite of this schedule in England, which means I've had the second best schedule possible, money-wise). This is reversed in the last 3rd of the season when the schedule is the opposite and the team that had the worst schedule at the beginning, now has the best one. Too bad they played catch up with gate receipts for like 9 weeks.
Last edited by Lemonshine at 08/15/2020 19:52:22