Scheduling the NFL with Constraint Programming

The National Football League (NFL) consists of 32 teams, with each team playing
a predetermined set of 16 games and one bye over 17 weeks. The NFL has to
schedule these games to meet the demands of the teams as well as the
television networks. We describe how constraint programming has been successfully
applied to solve this problem, and how the NFL used the solution to compute
the 2003 NFL schedule.