That's what I'm saying- if there were less teams in the BH-A then scheduling might be easier for the Hen North teams to pick them up.
It looks like the conference games get set, and the open dates are like "bye" weeks that the schools must fill. Here are the "byes" for the Hen. North this past 2 year cycle:
Dover - 1,2,3,7
Smy - 1,2,3,5
Cape - 1,2,3,8
CR - 1,2,3,4
SC - 1,2,3,10
Tech- 1,2,3,9
Poly- 1,2,3,6
That means that every Hen-North team needs to find a D1 opponent weeks 1,2,3 or they suffer from a lack of points. The other week is floating for each.
Now the BH-A byes:
AI - 1,7
Charter - 1,10
Penn - 1,8
Delcastle - 1,3
Concord - 1, 6
MtP- 1,9
Mtown - 1,5
Appo - 1,2
Newark- 1,4
So they ALL need a game week 1. Without someone stepping in to say "you have to play a Hen-N team" then AI avoids Dover, Charter avoids Central etc.
Then you throw independent schools in the mix, like Sals and StMarks trying to get games and it gets hairier.
My point is Hen-North teams are at the mercy of the BH-A. If a blue hen team decides to pick up an independent or private then the henlopen team is forced to play either Sallies or go play a d2 team. You know Sallies won't play a d2 unless its a rivalry game like StMarks, so they are going to work to snatch up games with the HN or BH-A teams.
I don't know if the point system is as flawed as the schedules
Nice piece of analysis.