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Yeah, that.
Regarding HEA: When the announcement was made during the prior offseason that HEA would be going to a 24-game schedule and rotating teams based on past performance from the previous two years, I strove to find out who would play who. Based on some of the teams releasing their schedules, I was able to figure out that the 3rd game opponents would be vs. a team that was right next to them in ranking ("Close"; it won't be entirely reciprocal because there's an odd number of teams), as well as, from the teams remaining, one who was in the upper band (1-3), middle band (4-6), and lower band (7-9). It worked out that one from each of the four categories is who they play. It's not as relevant this year as it was last year because the opponents remain the same this year with the locations flipped (obviously the current year's schedule sheet starts as a copy of the previous year's sheet), but next year, the exercise will happen again, as a new set of four opponents will be selected for each team.
24 games does certainly make it easier compared to a couple years ago, considering there are members that require two-game-series weekends in one location instead of one-night stands or home/home series (given HEA doesn't use travel partners).
I thought Ralph was just making a funny with the "prime".
The way that was chosen works surprisingly well, given 11 - self - "close" opponent = 9, which can be broken into those three "pods".
