Sorry it took me a little bit longer to get things squared away. I've never created a quickstart that I was sharing, but I've uploaded it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pmlhi150bd...2000.quick.zip
I went ahead and created the NFL teams, made some adjustments to the settings, and tested it out a few times running about 10 years at a time. Things seemed to work pretty well. I went ahead and created the divisions and team names to match the NFL, and added logos, uniforms, and caps. I was able to find a thread with all of the logos and uniforms, so all credit for those goes to Eriqjaffe. (I can't find the link to the thread tonight, but I'll take a look for the original and update).
I also went ahead and created some schedules
here. These are basically the 2002-2014 schedules that you can download and put in the schedule folder, and they'll rotate.
A couple caveats. I started my league at the start of baseball, so finances were small. Things looked ok, but you may want to pay close attention to those settings. The other is the settings on the Stats & AI tab. I went with what I thought worked best, but you can experiment if you want bigger or smaller rosters, or pitchers with more/less stamina. If you keep it on Start Highest Rested you'll get one starting pitcher, unless there is an injury, or questionable starter.
The one area of pain that I found is the playoffs. If you have playoffs enabled tie breakers will be scheduled and that will result in extra games for some teams. Those games, and the playoffs will be scheduled like a baseball series, even if it's best of one. I think there are three options -
1) Disable the playoffs, figure out the tie breakers, and schedule the playoffs manually
2) Let the game schedule tie breakers and playoffs, and edit these to the weekend
3) Reset fatigue before you advance
That's been my biggest headache, but if you have any questions let me know. If you learn something that works well, let me know too.
I also should have asked what era to start, but I went with 2000 and fictional players. If you are looking for something else let me know.