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Help me decide my next FOF9 dynasty attempt
Thread title says it all. I think I've figured out how to get scheduling to work the way I want to. I'm working on files to get my next dynasty attempt going. Here's where I am deciding between:
1920 -- First season of the APFA, which becomes the NFL in 1922. There's 14 teams in the league, no conferences or divisions. I believe that scheduling only works if the number of teams is equal to one of the schedules already in the game, so I would need to have either 16 or 18. That's fine -- blue laws prohibited Pennsylvania teams from playing on Sunday, so they weren't able to join. I'll add a couple from PA, plus a couple in the West to balance conferences. I would probably play as the Racine Street Cardinals, the franchise that became the Chicago Cardinals, then the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Phoenix Cardinals, then the Arizona Cardinals. Most likely I'd do a 53-round draft.
1966 -- Since the NFL often acts like its history starts at the first Super Bowl, maybe it's worth leaning into that. FOF9 numbers the championship games with roman numerals the way the Super Bowl does too, so a 1966 start makes sense -- whenever I start in a different year, it weirds me out that the game calls it Super Bowl I the first year of the game, even if there have been several Super Bowls before. Also, the teams are more recognizable, with only a few changes, while the 1920 start would really only have the Cardinals, the Decatur Staleys, and I'd have the Packers as an add-in. A lot more players would be recognizable, and some 10 seasons in, with the age demographic of this readership, there'd be more and more recognizable players really fast. I would keep players on the teams they played in as of 1966. I would also stick to an "unmerged" schedule where the AFL and NFL only play each other until the Super Bowl.
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