Week 15 Chat (Sunday Games)

[stevegrab]

13 hours ago, Finn5033 said:

And I believe that was the year of the beast quake game when they beat the Saints in the wildcard playoff game

Right and many said "see nothing wrong with a 7-9 division winner making it over teams with more wins (NYG & TB were both 10-6 and missed out, GB was also 10-6 and the 2nd wild card team). 

I agree winning your division still matters, we use it in our fantasy league as well. 

[Sunday Couch Potatoe]

3 hours ago, stevegrab said:

Right and many said "see nothing wrong with a 7-9 division winner making it over teams with more wins (NYG & TB were both 10-6 and missed out, GB was also 10-6 and the 2nd wild card team). 

I agree winning your division still matters, we use it in our fantasy league as well. 

While I agree that division winners should get in playoffs. I don’t think they should be able to host a game at 7-9 over a 10-6 team. How they would determine that or put a rule in for it I have no clue but that’s my opinion.

[stevegrab]

1 minute ago, Sunday Couch Potatoe said:

While I agree that division winners should get in playoffs. I don’t think they should be able to host a game at 7-9 over a 10-6 team. How they would determine that or put a rule in for it I have no clue but that’s my opinion.

Yes that would be complicated, as it stands now each conference has one team at or below .500 leading their division, but many other teams that could be wild cards that have a better record.  Dallas could finish with 11-13 wins, that could be more or tied with SF or MIN, would they also get homefield? (Now only 2 division winners host?). 

I think the NFL as a whole (majority of owners) like the current system, win your division and you host a playoff game. Some might feel taking the home game away is a slippery slope and next would be a change to remove division winner as an automatic playoff team.

I know the NBA made some change in the last 5-10 years to kind of eliminate the meaning of divisions, not sure if division winner is still an automatic playoff team, but believe they do seeding based on conference record (division winners are not the top X).