These things are based off the year before......

Everyone who had the RAMS on their schedule for instance, the RAMS were penciled in as one of the harder games and look how that ended up. I know that it needs to based on something IF you need to do a "strength " of schedule deal, but last years numbers can mean little moving into that next season.....example the defending champs having their roster decimated, changed the actual "strength" of that team on your schedule.