The current system gives a home game to all division champs. Packers benefited last year by hosting game with 8-7-1 record.
This year, Atlanta or New Orleans could get home game with 7-9 record or worse.
The current system gives a home game to all division champs. Packers benefited last year by hosting game with 8-7-1 record.
This year, Atlanta or New Orleans could get home game with 7-9 record or worse.
Last edited by Harlan Huckleby; 11-18-2014 at 01:37 PM.
I like to keep a little bit of meaning behind the division championships. if it becomes a problem go to two 8-team divisions per conference.
Probably I designed the poll badly. The options may be more complicated. You could give home games and byes to top two division champs, then after that seed by record for rest of tournament.
I am ashamed of this poll. I have brought dishonor to my home.
HOFer
I have no problem with division winners getting an automatic entry into the playoffs. It often makes more games meaningful during the last few weeks of the regular season, which I find more entertaining as a fan of the NFL. However, I strongly object to division winners having automatic home games in the playoffs.
The 4 division winners get in.
The 2 conference wild cards are then chosen on record and tiebreakers.
Then seed all 6 playoff teams based on same wild card record and tiebreakers...making it possible (yet unlikely) that 2 teams from the same division could earn byes as #1 and #2 if they had the 2 best records in the conference.
Here is the one item I would like to see happen that isn't usually mentioned:
The #3 seed gets to CHOOSE which of #4-6 they host in the wild card round. The higher seed of the remaining two teams would then host the other.
The #1 seed gets to CHOOSE which of the remaining 3 teams they host in the divisional round.
It's such a GOOD feeling...13 TIME WORLD CHAMPIONS!!
HOFer
Yeah i think making the playoffs should be good enough for winning your division
No way should a 12-4 wildcard team have to travel to a 7-9 or 6-10 division winner
Ya, this is the idea behind the reform proposal. The division leaders continue to get automatic births, the top two finishers of those get byes. Perhaps the initial seeding is done as before. But from there the home-field advantage goes strictly by record. It still preserves value for winning division, but takes some of the luck out of rest of tourny. Homefield is too important to hand to inferior team.Originally Posted by King Friday
My ADHD prevents me from following he rest of your post, but you look like a very nice man so you have my support.
right on.
You too look like a very nice, drunk man
I favor an 18-games season with a 16 teams playoffs format. Winning your division should still be "the easiest way to punch your ticket into the big bang," but the playoffs should be anti-conference.
Allow a playoff committee that includes Bretsky's hero, Barry Alvarez, to determine seeding regardless of conference. This is the 21st century. The Packers should be allowed to play the Bears in a Super Bowl.
HOFer
Yes, but it SOOO much better to crush the Bears and their hopeless minions in the NFCC game and then win the Lombardi Trophy a few weeks later.
It's such a GOOD feeling...13 TIME WORLD CHAMPIONS!!
You should do a poll. How many want to risk losing a championship to the Bears?
There was many a PackerRat willing to make a deal with the devil that they would rather guarantee a Super Bowl loss than deal with a loss to the Bears for the Halas Trophy.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
With the current format, chances are, we'll never get to see a Brady-P-Mann Super Bowl. In the past, there were times when one conference was stronger than the other, which led to blowouts in the SB by teams from the stronger conference.
An integrated playoffs format would make it possible for the best two teams in the league to compete with each others for the Lombardi Trophy regardless of what conference they play in.
Besides, the NFL as a whole is now one fat homogeneous monopoly. Do we need a landmark Supreme Court decision before the league would implant an integrated playoffs system, or what?
Last edited by Tyrion Lannister; 11-19-2014 at 01:22 AM.
You must really hate Manning to want to see that game.
I'd rather see Colts-Pats in Super Bowl XLI than Colts-Bears. Even though the Bears had a better record than both the Colts and Pats, they had Rex Fucking Grossman at QB and the NFC was somewhat inferior that season.
Time changed. The NFL no longer is competing with the AFL for people's money. It's just the NFL. Make it an NFL playoff without conferences.
I like it the way it is. Winning your Division should count for something.
And Peyton plays fantastic in big games like that?
Tyrion's opinions have changed mine; Close the thread.
Keep in mind that the reform proposals still give the juiciest reward to division winners - an automatic birth in playoffs. And the top two division winners get byes. Teams are still gonna fight to win division just as before.
The fix is in home field advantage. You shouldn't have a 6-10 team getting home field over a 12-4 team, that is silly. It's really a minor adjustment to existing system.
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/02/nfl-pl...eding-problem/It’s time to go all the way on this one, NFL. And it’s time to stop rewarding mediocrity. Just because a team wins a bad division doesn’t mean it deserves the extra treat of a home playoff game. Every win should count for something in the NFL, and homefield advantage should go to the team that won more games all season long, not just proved its mettle in the race with three weak division opponents.
A division comprised of four 6-10 teams has three times the out-of-division victories of a division comprised of a 10-6 team and three 2-14 teams.
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