ScheduleMatic

http://kenpom.com/blog/

What’s ScheduleMatic? It’s an algorithm that finds competitive matchups among nearby teams, the types of games that generate interest among the die-hard and casual fan alike. ScheduleMatic accomplishes this by putting the 344 Division I teams in random order and then conducts an automated draft, matching nearby teams with a small difference in their ranking from the previous season. (In this case, I’ll use my own ratings, but any system will do.) In a matter of seconds, ScheduleMatic produces a complete schedule of one home and one road game for each team.

The only problem with this is what happened last year for some teams means absolutely nothing, i.e St.Johns