There seems to be an element of matching rival teams to ensure that they play each other. There`s also a balancing component where each division has a few historical favorites and a few new or lesser experienced teams. Also, the league tries to accomodate geography as much as possible. If a team has a lot of players that live west, they will honor requests to put them in the Reston division instead of the Annandale division for example. Not an exact science. |