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ive seen before that some people want 17 games in MFN becasue NFL has moved to 17

imo.....17 games doesnt make sense. 16 is such a sweet round number. 8 home 8 away. this game is not affiliated with NFL in any way and should be treated as its own creature. cant find a reason to mimic since authenticity is already shot

NFL did it for revenue. would it generate more revenue here? if so, how?

i petition to remain at 16. unpopular opinion perhaps.....just two more of my cents here

I'd like to add in this edit that the playoff seeding needs to go back what the NFL used with 16 reg season games.
Having a 17 game NFL playoff seeding with the current 16 game MFN schedule is unfair, compounded by how the MFN playoff seeding bugs out, and leads to righteous community grumbles.

It always confused me as to why MFN adapted the NFL's current playoff seeds which are based on a 17 game schedule, while keeping a 16 game regular season schedule, and then did not fix the bugs related to 3rd and 4th tier + tiebreakers regarding seeding.

If I try to discuss in any more detail about this issue I'm only going to get more confusing, but I think I did a pretty dern good job describing the problem and another reason why 16 > 17.

(runs off to pound a Gatorade after this mental workout).
#simplify

not sure if amount of games in season effects playoff format. the change to amount of games and amount of playoff teams did happen at same time in NFL if i remember correctly, but believe one could exist without the other

I'd like to see Public leagues match the RL NFL and private leagues having options with formats.

Such as number of games per season 10,12,14,16,17 or 18. And playoff options such as 0,2,4 wild card spots.

It would allow leagues to set themselves apart a lil more. Right now league admins do a great job coming up with different things in their leagues to try and keep it as fresh as possible and it can be a lot of work in some cases. Allowing them to chose formats would give them another tool to design their leagues and make them different from each other.

It also would allow GMs to chose different types of leagues instead of the same ole cookie cutters with different themes. It could entice some players to play in more than one league if they were on the fence. Which means more potential $$$ for MFN.

This would work great with the “half league” option as well, custom schedules for a 16 team league could fill up and remain more competitive these days. If you want to realistically sim the NFL, that should be the ultimate full scale league, but smaller custom “feeder” leagues could be fun to work up to that level.