BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two industrial engineering students at the University at Buffalo have been working on a new NFL schedule to minimize competitive imbalance.

Kyle Cunningham and Niraj Pandy say they’ve developed an algorithm that comes close to matching — and in some cases improving — a schedule the NFL produces each year.

They say they’ve reduced the number of times that teams play more-rested opponents coming off a bye week or a Thursday night game. They eventually developed a program that produced a variety of schedules in which no team played more than two games against more-rested opponents per season.

The study was prompted in 2013 when the Buffalo Bills complained their schedule included six games against opponents coming off extended breaks.

The students are presenting their findings today in Boston.