Gandolf
Leader of the Van Buren Boys
We're coming up on prime flex season and our old friend @guaranteeed always enjoyed flex scheduling discussions and predictions. Let's make this a robust thread through the end of the year.
I'll start with the NFL's rules on flexing:
I'll start with the NFL's rules on flexing:
- Sunday afternoon games can be moved between the 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. windows.
- The league can flex games to Sunday Night Football twice in Weeks 5 through 10, and during Weeks 11 through 17, they can flex games “at the NFL’s discretion.”
- The NFL can flex games to Monday Night Football in Weeks 11 through 17 at its discretion.
- Thursday Night Football will be available in flex scheduling on a trial basis in 2024. The league can flex games to Thursday night up to twice between Weeks 13-17.
- If your team is on the schedule for Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, or Thursday Night Football during those flexible scheduling windows, the NFL considers all of those games “tentative” because of flex scheduling.
- Only Sunday afternoon games or games listed as “TBD” can be flexed to SNF, MNF or TNF. So you can’t flex a Thursday night game to Sunday night, and so on.
- As usual, the schedule for Week 18 of the 2024 season won’t be finalized until Week 17 concludes.
- The league has to give 12 days’ notice when flexing a game to Sunday or Monday night in Weeks 5 through 13 for SNF and Weeks 12 through 17 for MNF.
- For Sunday Night Football, Weeks 14 through 17, the decision must be made at least six days prior to a game being flexed.
- For Thursday Night Football, Weeks 13 through 17, the NFL will announce the decision at least 28 days before the game.