After watching the win the NFC West for the past two seasons, the might be stuck watching them win it again this year and that's because the Rams have one slight advantage heading into 2019: They have an easier schedule, at least according to our ratings.According to our formula, not only do the Seahawks have the toughest schedule in the NFC West this year, but they also have the seventh most difficult schedule in the . On the other hand, the Rams John Henson Jersey schedule ranks as just the 20th most difficult in the NFL.With the regular season still three months away, you might be wondering how we already know that the Rams have an easier schedule than the Seahawks, and that's because we went ahead and ranked all 32 schedules.The easiest way to rank each schedule in the NFL , but the problem with going that route is that it's not exactly the most efficient way to rate schedule difficulty, which is why we went ahead and devised a formula. So how does this formula work? Glad you asked.First, we looked at odds from the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook. Since the oddsmakers in Vegas seem to know what they're doing, we incorporated their odds into our formula, which didn't work out so well for the Seahawks. Seattle's schedule is filled with teams that are all considered serious Super Bowl contenders in Vegas, and five of their most difficult games will come on the road (At , at Rams, at , at , at ). Another part of the formula is the first three games of the season. Those are going to be weighted slightly more than the other 13 games because they tend to be a good indication of how a team will play throughout the year. Basically, teams that go winle s in their first three games almost never make the playoffs. Since 1990, only four teams have started 0-3 and made the postseason (1992 ,1995 Giannis Antetokounmpo Jersey , 1998 , 2018 ). Although the Texans pulled off the feat last year, there's a reason it's only happened four times in 29 seasons, and that's because it's nearly impo sible to pull off. Although an 0-3 start almost always means you'll mi s the postseason, 3-0 usually means good things in the NFL: From 1990 to 2010, 75.9 percent 3-0 made the playoffs. Those odds drop to 54.9 percent for 2-1 teams and 23.3 percent for 1-2 teams.This basically means that if your favorite team has a murderer's row in the first three weeks of the season, you should probably just give up on 2019 and start planning for the 2020 draft.Speaking of the first three games, it's probably worth nothing that starting off the year with a winning record through the first three weeks has almost become a prerequisite for getting into a conference title game. Over the past four seasons, 15 of the 16 teams that took part in the AFC and NFC title games started the season at 2-1 or better. That doesn't nece sarily mean you're favorite team will make it if they start 2-1, it just means they almost certainly won't make it if they start 1-2 or 0-3. (Since 2015, the one team that bucked this trend was the 2018 , but the Patriots have bucked a lot of trends over the years and it's unlikely that another team would be able to emulate them). On the other end of the schedule, the reason the final three games of the season aren't being given more weight is because the final games don't always mean the same for everybody, especially when a team is resting its starters. The went 0-3 in their final three games in 2009 and still won the Super Bowl. The went 1-2 in their final three in Spencer Hawes Jersey 2012 and also won the Super Bowl. Finally, each individual game on each team's schedule is also being ranked based on difficulty. For instance, the Seahawks have to travel to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers this season. On the other hand, the get to play the Steelers at home.From a strength of schedule standpoint, the game is the same: Both teams are playing the Steelers. However, the Seahawks game against Pittsburgh is viewed as more difficult in our formula, because they have to go on the road to face a Steelers team that's 7-1 against the NFC in home games over the past four seasons. On the other hand, the 49ers will be getting a serious home-field advantage in their game, and that's because they'll be hosting a Steelers team that features a coach and quarterback combo that has on the west coast (0-5). Those individual nuances are factored into the schedule ratings. Alright, that's enough rambling, let's get to these rankings.Wait, one more thing, if you're interested in checking out the schedule rankings for every other team in the NFL, you can do that here. Just click on your favorite division and that will take you to those rankings: , , , , , and . Ranking the NFC West schedules 4. San Francisco 49ersSchedule difficulty rating:96.625Overall NFL schedule difficulty ranking:24thEasiest stretch: On paper, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jersey the 49ers easiest stretch of the season will come during the first two weeks of 2019 when they play the (Week 1) and (Week 2). However, we might want to crumple that paper up into a ball and set it on fire, because this stretch might not end up being too easy for the 49ers for one reason: Both of these games are being played on the road. Playing on the road in Tampa and Cincinnati means playing in the eastern time zone, and you'll find out in our 'Weird scheduling note" section why that's a bad thing for the 49ers. Roughest stretch:If 49ers fans start to feel a little sick around Thanksgiving, it will probably have nothing to do with the food and everything to do with the fact that San Francisco has an impo sibly loaded schedule over the final six weeks of the season. The 49ers roughest stretch will start four days before Thanksgiving and it looks like this: (Week 12), at Ravens (Week 13), at Saints (Week 14), Falcons (Week 15), Rams (Week 16), at Seahawks (Week 17).If you're scoring at home, that stretch includes four playoff teams from last season, including both teams that played in the NFC title game. Oh, and the two teams in that stretch that didn't make the playoffs are both being quarterbacked by former NFL MVPs ( and ). To make things worse, the 49ers have to travel 10,038 miles during the month of December, which is more than five NFL teams will travel over the course of their entire Jabari Parker Jersey season.Here's a look at San Francisco's entire schedule: Breaking down the 2019 schedule with and !: San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) Weird scheduling note:The 49ers have four games in the eastern time zone this year, which we're only mentioning, because that time zone has been like some sort of Bermuda triangle for them over the past four years. Since 2015, San Francisco has gone 0-12 when playing in eastern time. You know what, maybe that easy stretch won't be so easy after all. 3. Los Angeles RamsSchedule difficulty rating:97.625Overall NFL schedule difficulty ranking:20th