Momentum Gaining for Playoff Seeding Change

[Ground Chuck]

This, from a "tough guy" who teaches his DB's to go for the knees, and couldn't win at home after a first round bye against the Foreskins? I just have one question for tough guy Campbell.

Aren't you embarrassed?

 

[jjab360]

Then get rid of the divisions. This is fucking stupid.

Either winning a division matters or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, why bother.

I absolutely hate stupid shit like this.

There's a bit of a slippery slope when you start to dilute the purpose of having divisions by not rewarding the winner.

If you follow the line of reasoning they're going down why not just send the 14 teams with the best record to the playoffs regardless of division or conference?

 

[AZRams]

There's a bit of a slippery slope when you start to dilute the purpose of having divisions by not rewarding the winner.

If you follow the line of reasoning they're going down why not just send the 14 teams with the best record to the playoffs regardless of division or conference?

Major League Baseball for the first half of the 20th Century...win the league, go to the World Series. Ultimately you're right, the proposed changes are not compatible with the divisional set up.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Therss red is no reason to change anything. The format makes sense.

One year it doesn’t and they need to make a change? It sounds like Caveman logic.

 

[Selassie I]

The Divisions have the be respected and valued as being every team's first goal for every season because every team's schedule is based on their Division. Otherwise, a whole new method of scheduling would have to be created and the current one thrown in the trash.

Hell... we already have a crap ton of Wildcard teams now.

It's always the Cry Bitches who complain about this. They need to shut the fuck up and take care of their own business.

 

[tklongball]

I thought they loved the scheduling of that last 2 weeks of the season, which were almost all division games, and how important they are to the playoff race. LOL. If you Seed by conference standing, then just get rid of divisions, make each team play the 15 other teams in the conference, and 2 teams from the other conference, based on record somehow. Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Stupid.

 

[Mackeyser]

I could see giving the division winners home field for the wild card round and then it goes by record.

But abandoning the divisions entirely?

I don’t like that. Some divisions allow for record inflation and others are a woodchipper where winning 11 games is a Herculean feat.

 

[Classic Rams]

If they have to do it, which I don't want it to be like the NBA, then the division winner gets a credit in a tiebreaker.

It's not like the Rams had a losing record last year. They totally deserved home field vs the Vikings. I never liked teams with crappy records making the playoffs even if they won the division.

 

[RamFan503]

If they have to do it, which I don't want it to be like the NBA, then the division winner gets a credit in a tiebreaker.

It's not like the Rams had a losing record last year. They totally deserved home field vs the Vikings. I never liked teams with crappy records making the playoffs even if they won the division.

Agreed to an extent. But you will always have someone upset at how it turns out. We’ve had teams make the playoffs with losing records. The earth kept spinning and the NFL didn’t lose a step. Don’t fix what ain’t broken about the NFL. This is not what to sharpen your axes on.

 

[sloramfan]

leave it alone...

if it works, don't fix it...

go rams

slo

 

[Selassie I]

Another thing that has kinda been mentioned.

Without the current scheduling system based on Divisions... the regular season will become much less meaningful than it is now. This is what the NBA did... their regular season games have turned into basically something resembling preseason games that are avoided by players. Now we see their fans avoiding the games too.

The NFL added to the importance of their regular season a few years back by making sure that Divisional games are scheduled during the last few games of the season for everyone. This has prevented teams from just resting their best players during the last several games of the year because nothing was on the line. The Divisional scheduling has made the NFL's regular season games important and basically Must See TV from game 1 all the way through game 17. Meanwhile, basketball has turned their regular season games into something almost everyone tries to avoid more so than not.

Also... the NFL's scheduling using the Divisions as the base has created natural rivalries for most teams and those rivalry games add even more interest/value. Most of the Natural rivalries happen twice a year as well. Respect the history that these rivalries created and add to them each season. Wait, No... let's just throw all that in the garbage because the bitches in Detroit are crying again.