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The average difference between the super bowl winner's bye week and the loser's bye week from 2001-2010 was 1.3. The average bye week super bowl attendee bye week was 6.25. The average from 2011 to present for difference in bye week is 2.00. The average super bowl attendee has also increased to 8.84. Looking at the last 10 years only, the super bowl winner bye week difference is 2.20. The average attendee bye week is 9.2. From 2001 to 2010, the winner of the super bowl had an earlier bye week 4 out of 10 times. From 2010 to the present, there have been only 3 such cases out of 13 games: the 2013 Ravens over the 49ers, the 2017 Patriots over the Falcons, and the 2019 Patriots over the Rams, which means only 2 bye week underdog wins have occurred in the last ten years at the super bowl. From 2001 to 2010, 6 super bowl attendees won with a bye week of 6 or earlier, 4 out of 8 won with a bye week that is between 4 and 6 (still used in the nfl schedule today). from 2011 onwards, not a single fucking team won the super bowl if they had a bye week of 6 or earlier. Two week 7 teams won against another week 7 and week 5 team, that's it. a grand total of 4 teams attended the super bowl with a week 6 bye or lower since 2011. Teams listed for the 2023-24 season with a week 6 bye or earlier: Cleveland Browns, LA Chargers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccs, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers. Congrats, you've all been statistically eliminated from winning the Super Bowl this year. That is 6 out of 32 teams, 18.75% of the entire league that needs to pull off something not done in almost 15 years of the NFL, all because the NFL refuses to change its scheduling policy.

This has to change. The sport needs to go to a two bye week policy. half the teams one week, the other half the next week. AFC and NFC alternates every year. It's the only way to eliminate the bye week bias.