Re: How embarrassed is the NFL...
Ray O'Hara
"graybeard" <gray...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> ...by having a team with a losing record in the playoffs? If you go to
> NFL.com, and then to the page with the playoff schedule, in the section
> where they list the seeding order for the playoff teams every team shows
> their won-lost record in parentheses after their name - except one.
> Seattle is listed only as NFC West champion.
> --
> graybeard
still it's a fluke result and not worth messing with the PO format because
of one aberrant result.
Keith Keller
> ...by having a team with a losing record in the playoffs? If you go to
> NFL.com, and then to the page with the playoff schedule, in the section
> where they list the seeding order for the playoff teams every team shows
> their won-lost record in parentheses after their name - except one.
> Seattle is listed only as NFC West champion.
I'm sure they are embarassed, but I'm also sure that the league knows
this sort of thing seldom happens.
...at least, till next year when the NFC West sucks again.
Still, at least the NFL's system is completely objective. Imagine the
agita if fans in Philly and Green Bay had to worry about ''the voters''.
As for the AFC: is it unusual for no teams to be eliminated by a
tiebreaker? I don't remember seeing that before.
--keith
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Ray O'Hara
"graybeard" <gray...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:37:52 -0500 graybeard <gray...@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>>of their record. However, I think home field should be awarded based on
>>which team has the better record. And no, that's not just because the
>>Jets have a better record than the Colts this year - I've thought it for
>>several years. The 7-9 49ers having the home field advantage over the
>>11-5 Saints doesn't make any sense to me.
>
> Of course I meant the Seahawks and not the 49ers.
> --
> graybeard
it's just one fluke year.
hell the Saints should be happy they are even in, they finished second.
JetsLife
> ...by having a team with a losing record in the playoffs? If you go to
> NFL.com, and then to the page with the playoff schedule, in the section
> where they list the seeding order for the playoff teams every team shows
> their won-lost record in parentheses after their name - except one.
> Seattle is listed only as NFC West champion.
> --
> graybeard
At a minimum the NFL should determine playoffs seeds via W-L. With
only 37.5% of the schedule being division games it makes sense.
papa.carl44
"JetsLife" <Jets...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Well put....the division thing has become very irrelevant in some ways.
Maybe, they could keep four conferences playing amongst themselves for the
most part. In this day and age they do not need to be geographic either.
Then the winners come out of conferences and the playoffs begin. It makes
more sense in terms of teams actually winning and would produce the best of
a group...and then on to the next level. Only a thought.