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The Easy Roblox Fusion (ERF) is a roblox professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football

Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The ERF is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues and the highest professional level of Roblox American football in the world. Its eighteen-week regular season runs from early September to early January, with each team playing seventeen games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference (four division winners and three wild card teams) advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament culminating in the Super Bowl, which is usually held on the first Sunday in February and is played between the champions of the NFC and AFC. The league is headquartered in New York City.

The ERF was formed in 1987 as the Roblox Pro American Football League (RPAFL) before renaming itself the Easy Roblox Fusion for the 1990 season. After initially determining champions through end-of-season standings, a playoff system was implemented in 1986 that culminated with the ERF Championship Game until 1989. Following an agreement to merge the ERF with the rival Roblox Pro League (RPL), the Super Bowl was first held in 1990 as a proper season sucking in the real life NFL teams that were in the league but now are in ERF. The ERF has the highest average attendance (67,998) of any professional roblox sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the Roblox United States. The Super Bowl is also among the biggest club sporting events in the world, with the individual games accounting for many of the most watched television programs in American history and all occupying the Nielsen's Top 5 tally of the all-time most watched R.U.S. television broadcasts by 2015. The ERF is the wealthiest roblox professional sports league by revenue and the sports league with the most valuable teams.

The Cincinati Bengals have won the most super bowl's out of any other team in ERF, with a total of six super bowl titles from eight super bowl games.

History
On August 21st 1987, A meeting between Roblox American Football Teams owners and league owners discussed a plan to make a brand new league called Roblox Pro American Football League. On The 1987 Season it began with 8 teams made into 2 divisions of 4 teams. The Canton Bulldogs won the League with a 36-7 against now ERF side Chicago Bears to finish the season 9-0. On the August 3rd 1988, The RPAFL announced a new schedule with a brand new 4 teams making it a 12-team league. So ERF decided to split them up into 2 divisions, The South and the North Division and the top of the division's played in a championship game. Los Angeles Rams won the South Division and Canton Bulldogs won the North Division and they met up in the 1st ever title game. Los Angeles Rams won with a fumble by the Canton Bulldogs at the 2 yard line of LA Rams and rams ended up winning 21-19. On the 1989 season, The Cincinati Bengals beat the Las Vegas Indians 38-0 in the Title Game.

From 1990, The ERF merged most of the RPAFL teams such as the Cincinati Bengals, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks. From 1990-Present there has been 30 Super Bowls and the 31st is comming up.

Season and playoff development
From 1990 to 1992 there was a 5 team playoff structure with 3 division winners and 2 wildcards with the AFC/NFC South, North, Central and 2 wildcards. How this would work was that #1 Seed would get a bye week and then #2 vs #5 and #3 vs #4 and then #1 would play lowest remaining seed and then the other 2 teams would play each other then there would be a conference championship game and then the Super Bowl.

From 1992 - 2019 It was a 6 team playoff format with the top 2 seeds from each conference having a bye week then #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5 would play in wildcard then #1 will play lowest remaining seed and #2 will play highest remaining seed, then there is a conference title game then the Super Bowl.

From 2020-Present it is a 7 team playoff format with only the first seed having a bye week then #2 vs #7, #3 vs #6 and #4 vs #5 in the Wildcard and then #1 seed play lowest remaining seed and then the other 2 teams will play eachother and then there is a conference title game then the Super Bowl.

Season format
Main article: List of Easy Roblox Fusion seasons

The ERF season format consists of a three-week preseason, an 18-week regular season (each team plays 17 games), and a 14-team single-elimination playoff culminating in the Super Bowl, the league's championship game.

Preseason
Main article: ERF preseason

The ERF preseason begins with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, played at Fawcett Stadium in Canton. Each NFL team is required to schedule three preseason games. NFC teams must play at least two of these at home in odd numbered years and AFC teams must play at least two at home in even numbered years. However, the teams involved in the Hall of Fame game, as well as any team that played in an American Bowl game, play four preseason games. Preseason games are exhibition matches and do not count towards regular-season totals. Because the preseason does not count towards standings, teams generally do not focus on winning games; instead, they are used by coaches to evaluate their teams and by players to show their performance, both to their current team and to other teams if they get cut. The quality of preseason games has been criticized by some fans, who dislike having to pay full price for exhibition games, as well as by some players and coaches, who dislike the risk of injury the games have, while others have felt the preseason is a necessary part of the NFL season

Regular season
Main article: ERF regular season

Currently, the 14 opponents each team faces over the 17-game regular season schedule are set using a pre-determined formula: The league runs an 18-week, 272-game regular season. Since 2021, the season has begun the week after Labor Day (the first Monday in September) and concluded the week after New Year. The opening game of the season is normally a home game on a Thursday for the league's defending champion.

Most ERF games are played on Sundays, with a Monday night game typically held at least once a week and Thursday night games occurring on most weeks as well. ERF games are not normally played on Fridays or Saturdays until late in the regular season, as federal law prohibits professional football leagues from competing with college or high school football. Because high school and college teams typically play games on Friday and Saturday, respectively, the ERF cannot hold games on those days until the Friday before the third Saturday in December. While Saturday games late in the season are common, the league rarely holds Friday games, the most recent one being on Christmas Day in 2020. NFL games are rarely scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday, and those days have only been used three times since 1992: in 2010, when a Sunday game was rescheduled to Tuesday due to a blizzard, in 2012, when the Kickoff game was moved from Thursday to Wednesday to avoid conflict with the Democratic National Convention, and in 2020, when a game was postponed from Sunday to Tuesday due to players testing positive for COVID-19.

NFL regular season matchups are determined according to a scheduling formula. Within a division, all four teams play 14 out of their 17 games against common opponents or each other– two games (home and away) are played against the other three teams in the division, while one game is held against all the members of a division from the NFC and a division from the AFC as determined by a rotating cycle (three years for the conference the team is in, and four years in the conference they are not in). Two of the other games are intraconference games, determined by the standings of the previous year – for example, if a team finishes first in its division, it will play two other first-place teams in its conference, while a team that finishes last would play two other last-place teams in the conference. The final game is an inter-conference based on a rotating cycle and determined by previous season's standings. In total, each team plays 17 games and has one bye week, where it does not play a game.

Although a team's home and away opponents are known by the end of the previous year's regular season, the exact dates and times for NFL games are not determined until much later because the league has to account for, among other things, the Major League Baseball postseason and local events that could pose a scheduling conflict with NFL games. During the 2010 season, over 500,000 potential schedules were created by computers, 5,000 of which were considered "playable schedules" and were reviewed by the NFL's scheduling team. After arriving at what they felt was the best schedule out of the group, nearly 50 more potential schedules were developed to try to ensure that the chosen schedule would be the best possible one.

Postseason
Main articles: ERF playoffs, Roblox Pro Bowl, and Roblox Super Bowl

Following the conclusion of the regular season, the ERF Playoffs, a 14-team single-elimination tournament, is then held. Seven teams are selected from each conference: the winners of each of the four divisions as well as three wild card teams (the three remaining teams with the best overall record, with tiebreakers in the event of two or more teams having the same record). These teams are seeded according to overall record and tiebreakers, with the division champions always ranking higher than the wild card teams. The top team (seeded one) from each conference are awarded a bye week, while the remaining six teams (seeded 2–7) from each conference compete in the first round of the playoffs, the Wild Card round, with the 2-seed competing against the 7-seed, the 3-seed competing against the 6-seed and the 4-seed competing against the 5-seed. The winners of the Wild Card round advance to the Divisional Round, which matches the lower seeded team against the 1-seed and the two remaining teams against each other. The winners of those games then compete in the Conference Championships, with the higher remaining seed hosting the lower remaining seed. The AFC and NFC champions then compete in the Super Bowl to determine the league champion.

The only other postseason event hosted by the ERF is the Pro Bowl, the league's all-star game. Since 2009, the Pro Bowl has been held the week before the Super Bowl; in previous years, the game was held the week following the Super Bowl, but in an effort to boost ratings, the game was moved to the week before. Because of this, players from the teams participating in the Super Bowl are exempt from participating in the game. The Pro Bowl is not considered as competitive as a regular-season game because the biggest concern of teams is to avoid injuries to the players.

Media coverage
The ERF media coverage has been a thing since 2004. The main broadcasting servers are Sxm Sports, Roblox Sports , RCBS , RNBC , RFOX and RESPN

Draft
The ERF draft takes place in late April and sometimes goes into early may, ERF holded the draft since 1993 and its for top ranked college players finishing college and a chance to join an ERF team. When the super bowl winner is crowned, the draft order is released with the first overall pick with the team with the worst record. E.g 2017 Cleveland Browns finished 0-16, they would get the first overall pick for the 2018 ERF Draft.

Seasons
Main Article: List of ERF Seasons