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The Tier 1 post-season runs for three weeks in the month of May.
 
The Tier 1 post-season runs for three weeks in the month of May.
  
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===Tier 1 off-season===
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===Off-season===
 
The Tier 1 off-season runs from the end of May through December.
 
The Tier 1 off-season runs from the end of May through December.
  
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O31
 
| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O31
 
| style="width: 1%; background-color:red; color:white" | O32
 
| style="width: 1%; background-color:red; color:white" | O32
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| colspan="4" align="center" | January
 
| colspan="4" align="center" | January
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===Post-season===
 
===Post-season===
 
The Tier 2 post-season runs for three weeks in November.
 
The Tier 2 post-season runs for three weeks in November.
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===Off-season===
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The Tier 2 off-season starts in December and runs through late July.
  
 
===Tier 2 Season chart===
 
===Tier 2 Season chart===
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{| class="wikitable" style="width: 85%;"
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 85%;"
 
|-
 
|-
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! colspan="4" | '''Tier 1 pre-season'''
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! colspan="29" | '''Tier 2 off-season'''
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! colspan="13" | '''Tier 1 regular season'''
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! colspan="4" | '''Tier 2 pre-season'''
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! colspan="3" | '''Tier 1 post-season'''
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! colspan="12" | '''Tier 2 regular season'''
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! colspan="32" | '''Tier 1 off-season'''
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! colspan="3" | '''Tier 2 post-season'''
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! colspan="4" | '''Tier 2 off-season'''
 
|-
 
|-
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O5
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O6
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O7
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O8
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O9
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O10
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O11
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O12
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O13
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O14
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O15
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O16
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O17
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O18
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O19
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O20
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O21
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O22
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O23
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O24
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O25
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O26
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O27
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O28
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O29
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O30
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O31
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:red; color:white" | O32
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O33
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R5
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R6
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R7
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R8
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R9
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R10
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R11
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R12
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P1
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P2
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:red; color:white" | O4
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|-
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| colspan="4" align="center" | January
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| colspan="4" align="center" | February
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| colspan="4" align="center" | March
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| colspan="4" align="center" | April
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| colspan="5" align="center" | May
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| colspan="4" align="center" | June
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| colspan="5" align="center" | July
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| colspan="5" align="center" | August
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| colspan="4" align="center" | September
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| colspan="5" align="center" | October
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| colspan="4" align="center" | November
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| colspan="4" align="center" | December
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|}
  
 
==Tier 3 Season==
 
==Tier 3 Season==
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==Challenges in relegation/promotion==
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===Promotion challenges===
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When a Tier 2 team is promoted to Tier 1, there is precious little time between the two seasons. Rather than being able to rest players in preparation for a more difficult and competitive season, newly-promoted teams have only a four-week period after the T2 post-season before the T1 pre-season begins. During this time, the newly-promoted T1 team owners meet with the other T1 owners at the annual owner's meeting prior to T1 pre-season.
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Because the two teams that play in the T2 finals are both guaranteed promotion, a typical strategy is to rest all first-string starters during the final T2 championship game. Although it is an opportunity for second-stringers to get quality playing time, the outcome of the game is almost completely irrelevant. But the rested first-stringers get five weeks rest while the rest of the team only gets four before the start of the T1 season.
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The grueling back-to-back schedule for newly-promoted teams often results in the battered team being immediately relegated after their first T1 season.
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===Relegation challenges===
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When a Tier 1 team is relegated back to Tier 2, they have a 12-week period of rest between the end of T1 regular season (not counting post-season, as relegated T1 teams do not appear in the post season) and the start of T2 pre-season. If the team does well in Tier 2 and is promoted again, they have the same promotion challenge with the added complication that in a two-year span, they play three complete seasons of football.
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===Tier 1/Tier 2 Season overlay===
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The following table shows how Tier 1 and Tier 2 seasons are structured in one year.
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{| class="wikitable" style="width: 85%;"
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|-
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| colspan="20" style="background-color:red; color:white" align=center | '''Tier 2 off-season'''
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| colspan="9" rowspan="3" style="background-color:yellow; color:blue" align=center | '''Tier 1 & Tier 2 off-season'''
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| colspan="19" style="background-color:red; color:white" align=center | '''Tier 1 off-season'''
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| colspan="4" rowspan="3" style="background-color:yellow; color:blue" align=center | '''Tier 1 & Tier 2 off-season'''
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|-
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| colspan="20" align=center |  Tier 1 season
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| colspan="19" align=center |  Tier 2 season
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|-
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| colspan="4" align=center | Pre
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| colspan="13" align=center | Regular season
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| colspan="3" align=center | Post
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| colspan="4" align=center | Pre
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| colspan="12" align=center | Regular season
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| colspan="3" align=center | Post
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|-
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:blue; color:yellow" | P1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:blue; color:yellow" | P2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:blue; color:yellow" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:blue; color:yellow" | P4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R5
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R6
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R7
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R8
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R9
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R10
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R11
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R12
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:purple; color:white" | R13
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:green; color:yellow" | P1
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:green; color:yellow" | P2
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:green; color:yellow" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O5
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O6
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O7
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O8
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O9
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:orange; color:blue" | P4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R4
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R5
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R6
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R7
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R8
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R9
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R10
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R11
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:lime; color:red" | R12
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P1
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P2
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| style="width: 1%; background-color:aqua; color:purple" | P3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O1
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O2
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O3
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| style="width: 2%; background-color:yellow; color:blue" | O4
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|-
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| colspan="4" align="center" | January
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| colspan="4" align="center" | February
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| colspan="4" align="center" | March
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| colspan="4" align="center" | April
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| colspan="5" align="center" | May
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| colspan="4" align="center" | June
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| colspan="5" align="center" | July
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| colspan="5" align="center" | August
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| colspan="4" align="center" | September
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| colspan="5" align="center" | October
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| colspan="4" align="center" | November
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| colspan="4" align="center" | December
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|}

Latest revision as of 17:11, 10 July 2025

A year is broken into seasons for the Galactic Football League. Each tier of football has its own schedule, but there is a bit of overlap that can result in back-to-back seasons with little break when being promoted to Tier 1, or a lengthy delay in fighting back To Tier 1 when demoted from Tier 2.

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Seasons

Tier 1 Season

The Tier 1 season starts at the beginning of the year, in January, and continues through the post-season, which ends in May.

Pre-season

The Tier 1 pre-season runs for the entire month of January, for four weeks.

Regular season

The Tier 1 regular season runs from February through April, for 13 weeks.

Post-season

The Tier 1 post-season runs for three weeks in the month of May.

Off-season

The Tier 1 off-season runs from the end of May through December.

Tier 1 Season chart

Tier 1 pre-season Tier 1 regular season Tier 1 post-season Tier 1 off-season
P1 P2 P3 P4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 P1 P2 P3 O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8 O9 O10 O11 O12 O13 O14 O15 O16 O17 O18 O19 O20 O21 O22 O23 O24 O25 O26 O27 O28 O29 O30 O31 O32
January February March April May June July August September October November December

Tier 2 season

The Tier 2 season starts after the middle of the year, in July, and continues through the post-season, which ends in December.

Pre-season

The Tier 2 pre-season runs from late July to the end of August, for four weeks.

Regular season

The Tier 2 regular season runs from August through early November, for 12 weeks.

Post-season

The Tier 2 post-season runs for three weeks in November.

Off-season

The Tier 2 off-season starts in December and runs through late July.

Tier 2 Season chart

Tier 2 off-season Tier 2 pre-season Tier 2 regular season Tier 2 post-season Tier 2 off-season
O5 O6 O7 O8 O9 O10 O11 O12 O13 O14 O15 O16 O17 O18 O19 O20 O21 O22 O23 O24 O25 O26 O27 O28 O29 O30 O31 O32 O33 P1 P2 P3 P4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 P1 P2 P3 O1 O2 O3 O4
January February March April May June July August September October November December

Tier 3 Season

Challenges in relegation/promotion

Promotion challenges

When a Tier 2 team is promoted to Tier 1, there is precious little time between the two seasons. Rather than being able to rest players in preparation for a more difficult and competitive season, newly-promoted teams have only a four-week period after the T2 post-season before the T1 pre-season begins. During this time, the newly-promoted T1 team owners meet with the other T1 owners at the annual owner's meeting prior to T1 pre-season.

Because the two teams that play in the T2 finals are both guaranteed promotion, a typical strategy is to rest all first-string starters during the final T2 championship game. Although it is an opportunity for second-stringers to get quality playing time, the outcome of the game is almost completely irrelevant. But the rested first-stringers get five weeks rest while the rest of the team only gets four before the start of the T1 season.

The grueling back-to-back schedule for newly-promoted teams often results in the battered team being immediately relegated after their first T1 season.

Relegation challenges

When a Tier 1 team is relegated back to Tier 2, they have a 12-week period of rest between the end of T1 regular season (not counting post-season, as relegated T1 teams do not appear in the post season) and the start of T2 pre-season. If the team does well in Tier 2 and is promoted again, they have the same promotion challenge with the added complication that in a two-year span, they play three complete seasons of football.

Tier 1/Tier 2 Season overlay

The following table shows how Tier 1 and Tier 2 seasons are structured in one year.

Tier 2 off-season Tier 1 & Tier 2 off-season Tier 1 off-season Tier 1 & Tier 2 off-season
Tier 1 season Tier 2 season
Pre Regular season Post Pre Regular season Post
P1 P2 P3 P4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 P1 P2 P3 O1 O2 O3 O4 O5 O6 O7 O8 O9 P1 P2 P3 P4 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 P1 P2 P3 O1 O2 O3 O4
January February March April May June July August September October November December
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