NFL releases 2019 schedule after 10 weeks of computing the matchups
(LA Times MLB)

It was about 15 years ago that NFL executive Val Pinchbeck cobbled together the NFL schedule, mostly by hand. He and his team used a couple of computers to crunch the numbers, but it was largely a trial-and-error, pencil-behind-the-ear endeavor. Pinchbeck, who died in 2004, wouldn´t recognize the...