2020 ERF Season

The 2020 ERF season was the 34th season of the Easy Roblox Fusion (ERF). The regular season started with the NFL Kickoff Game on September 10, in which defending Super Bowl XXIX champion Indianapolis defeated Houston. The season concluded with Cincinati defeating Arizona in Super Bowl XXX at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Californa, on February 7, 2021.

The Oakland Raiders relocated to Las Vegas for the 2020 season, and are now playing at Allegiant Stadium as the Las Vegas Raiders. After a decades-long controversy, the Washington Redskins retired the use of their name and logo and adopted the name Washington Football Team.

The season was impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; the most prominent changes were the cancellation of all preseason games and the 2021 Pro Bowl, the suspension of international games for the year, an allowance for players to opt out of playing the season without violating their contracts (66 players opted out), the playing of games with either a greatly reduced audience or no fans at all, and the postponement and/or rescheduling of multiple games due to numerous positive COVID-19 tests among players and staff. Despite these changes, all 256 regular season games were played within the original 17-week span with no cancellations.

This was also the final season played under the 16 game-schedule, as the schedule was expanded to 17 games in 2021.

Draft
The Draft took place virtually due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Preseason
Training camps were held from late July through August. By league order, all training camps were held at teams' regular practice facilities.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game was scheduled for August 6 between Detriot and Houston, but was canceled on June 25 due to the pandemic. On July 3, the ERFPA voted to cancel the preseason, which was agreed to by the league later that month.

Regular season
The ERF released its regular-season schedule on May 7. The season was played over a 17-week schedule beginning on September 10. Each of the league's 32 teams played 16 games, with one bye week for each team. The regular season concluded with a full slate of 16 games on January 3, 2021, all of which were intra-division matchups, as it had been since 2010.

The ERF suspended its international games for the season due to travel restrictions imposed because of the pandemic; the league had previously announced that Cincinati would host a game at Wembely and so would Jacksonville., Atlanta and MiamI would each host a game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, and Arizona would host a game at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. These games were moved back to the teams' respective home stadiums.

Using contingencies similar to those built into the 2011 schedule in the event that season's lockout lasted into September, the 2020 schedule allowed for the possibility that the season could be delayed and shortened in the event that conditions were unsafe to begin play as scheduled. Every game in Week 2 featured teams that share the same bye week later in the season, which would have allowed these games to be made up on the teams' original byes. Weeks 3 and 4 were set up so that there were no divisional games and that every team at home in Week 3 was away in Week 4 and vice versa. This would have allowed the NFL to cancel these two weeks without eliminating any divisional games and keeping each team's home and away games balanced. These scheduling changes, along with eliminating the week off before the Super Bowl and moving the Super Bowl back three weeks, would have allowed the NFL to play a 14-game schedule beginning October 29 while still playing the Super Bowl in February.

Scheduling formula
Under the ERF scheduling formula, each team played the other three teams in its own division twice. In addition, a team played against all four teams in one division from each conference. The remaining two games on a team's schedule were against the two remaining teams in the same conference that finished in the same position in their respective divisions the previous season (e.g., the team that finished fourth in its division will play all three other teams in the conference that also finished fourth). The division pairings for 2020 are as follows: Highlights of the 2020 season included:


 * NFL Kickoff Game: The 2020 season began with the Kickoff Game on Thursday, September 10. Defending Super Bowl XIX champion Indianapolis hosted and defeated Houston.
 * Thanksgiving: Two games were played on Thursday, November 26, featuring Chicago at Detriot and Atlanta at Dallas, with Detriot and Atlanta winning. Baltimore was scheduled to play at Pittsburgh in the primetime game, but it was postponed to December 2, due to several Ravens players and staff testing positive for COVID-19. This postponement reduced the Thanksgiving slate to two games for the first time since 2005.
 * Christmas: As Christmas Eve fell on a Thursday, that week's Thursday Night Football game between Tampa Bay and Kansas City was instead played as a 4:30 p.m. ET start on Christmas Day, with New Orleans winning. This was the NFL's first Friday game since 2009, which was also a Christmas game.

Saturday flexible scheduling
When the entire season schedule was released on May 7, the league announced that in Weeks 15 and 16, two or three of five designated games would be moved to Saturday. A total of four games were broadcast by the ERF Network and one was broadcast by Roblox Amazon Prime Video.

Week 15

On November 24, the ERF announced that two games would be moved to Saturday, December 19: Buffalo–Denver at 1:30 p.m. ET and Carolina–Detriot at 4:15pm. The three other games that the NFL had the option of scheduling on Saturday (Packers–Bears, Houston–Indianapolis, and New York Jets–Miami Dolphins) remained on December 20.

In-season scheduling changes
Week 4: Steelers vs Bengals was rescheduled to Week 8 when they both had a bye week

Week 11: Cowboys vs 49ers origionally on Monday Night Football was rescheduled to Sunday 4:25pm ET replacing Titans vs Ravens due to Thanksgiving Games taking place

Week 12: Seahawks vs Dolphins origionally played 1:00pm ET was rescheduled to 4:05pm ET replacing Eagles vs 49ers

Week 17: Steelers vs Browns origionally scheduled at 4:05pm ET was replaced by Cowboys-Football Team for Sunday Nigth Football to determine who would have the playoff spot from the AFC North with the Cincinati Bengals.