NFL to Have Vote That Would Alter Playoff Seeding

[Doc Brown]

Thought this was interesting.  All four division winners make playoffs but then are reseeded 1 through 7 based on record.  Division winners would have the higher seed if they had the same record as a non division winner.

 

I'm not a fan of this because the way the scheduling format is set up leads to an unbalanced schedule (eg., playing AFC North and NFC North is a lot harder than playing AFC South and NFC South).  The only tweak I would make is this would only apply this if a division winner finishes below .500.  Thoughts?

[Goin Breakdown]

NFL-  do you all like football?

Us- yes we do!!!!

NFL- Cool. Were going to change everything about it then. 

[Warriorspikes51]

this should absolutely happen.

Win your Division clinches playoff birth....but does not guarantee home game

 

Teams who go 9-8 or 10-7  being at home against a 13 or 14 win team is a joke 

 

 

 

"Detroit’s proposal would be for the four division champions and three wild cards in each conference to make the playoffs. Those seven teams would then be seeded strictly by record, rather than assigning the top seeds to the division winners (which is how it’s been done since the merger), with the wild cards to follow. If teams have the same record, being a division champion would be the first tiebreaker—regardless of head-to-head record."

"A change in Detroit’s proposal from March is for the teams then to be reseeded after the first round. So, in this case, the No. 1 seed would play the lowest-remaining seed in the conference, rather than automatically facing the winner of the No. 4 vs. No. 5 matchup, with the other two remaining teams playing in the other divisional round game.

In March, when commissioner Roger Goodell conducted an unofficial vote on the idea, only a handful of teams were ready to vote the proposal through. But there was also new logic to the idea that teams were considering, prompting Goodell to table an official vote until May.

That logic is right there in the NFL’s rules proposal memo that went to clubs this week. The reason, in Detroit’s proposal, reads: Competitive equity. Provides excitement and competition in late-season games. Rewards the best-performing teams from the regular season."

Edited 5 hours ago by Warriorspikes51

[K D]

If you are a division winner with a losing record then you shouldn't make the playoffs. Simple as that.

[RobbRiddick]

I honestly thought this was going to say they were considering letting 10 teams per conference make the playoffs so they can have a Super Duper Rootin Tootin Wildcard Weekend.

 

I guess Cleveland and the Jets would still miss out

[Lost]

Somehow this will screw the Bills.  It always does

[Chandler#81]

15 minutes ago, Lost said:

Somehow this will screw the Bills.  It always does

That’s the spirit! Go Bills!

[MJS]

It's fine how it is. Don't mess with it.

[Goin Breakdown]

New playoff seeding proposes that KC automatically gets the #1 seed. I read that somewhere. Sorry no link. 

[Doc Brown]

13 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

this should absolutely happen.

Win your Division clinches playoff birth....but does not guarantee home game

 

Teams who go 9-8 or 10-7  being at home against a 13 or 14 win team is a joke 

 

"A change in Detroit’s proposal from March is for the teams then to be reseeded after the first round. So, in this case, the No. 1 seed would play the lowest-remaining seed in the conference, rather than automatically facing the winner of the No. 4 vs. No. 5 matchup, with the other two remaining teams playing in the other divisional round game.

 

I didn't catch that.  Thanks.  If this rule was put in last year the WC games for the AFC would have just had the Chargers host the Texans in the WC round.  Everything else would be the same.

 

NFC would have same teams but three different WC matchups....

 

WC Games would've been Bucs @ Eagles, Rams @ Vikings, and Packers @ Redskins.

[Don Otreply]

24 minutes ago, K D said:

If you are a division winner with a losing record then you shouldn't make the playoffs. Simple as that.

No one in that division makes the playoffs imo, 

[HappyDays]

20 minutes ago, Lost said:

Somehow this will screw the Bills.  It always does

 

Might help us actually. Imagine the Bengals get in as the #7 seed at 10-7 and the Texans win the AFCS at 9-8 (not a super unlikely scenario). If we're the #2 seed, in the current format we'd play the Bengals even though the Texans would be the more favorable opponent. In the new proposed format we'd play the Texans because they'd now be the lower seed. So as a higher seed you'd always be guaranteed to face the worst remaining team based on record.

[SoonerBillsFan]

39 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

this should absolutely happen.

Win your Division clinches playoff birth....but does not guarantee home game

 

Teams who go 9-8 or 10-7  being at home against a 13 or 14 win team is a joke 

 

 

 

"Detroit’s proposal would be for the four division champions and three wild cards in each conference to make the playoffs. Those seven teams would then be seeded strictly by record, rather than assigning the top seeds to the division winners (which is how it’s been done since the merger), with the wild cards to follow. If teams have the same record, being a division champion would be the first tiebreaker—regardless of head-to-head record."

"A change in Detroit’s proposal from March is for the teams then to be reseeded after the first round. So, in this case, the No. 1 seed would play the lowest-remaining seed in the conference, rather than automatically facing the winner of the No. 4 vs. No. 5 matchup, with the other two remaining teams playing in the other divisional round game.

In March, when commissioner Roger Goodell conducted an unofficial vote on the idea, only a handful of teams were ready to vote the proposal through. But there was also new logic to the idea that teams were considering, prompting Goodell to table an official vote until May.

That logic is right there in the NFL’s rules proposal memo that went to clubs this week. The reason, in Detroit’s proposal, reads: Competitive equity. Provides excitement and competition in late-season games. Rewards the best-performing teams from the regular season."

Agreed. You get a spot because of winning the division but then the whole thing needs to be based on record.

[transient]

13 minutes ago, Goin Breakdown said:

New playoff seeding proposes that KC automatically gets the #1 seed. I read that somewhere. Sorry no link. 

I thought it was that they automatically get golden buzzer'd through to the AFCCG by Chris Collinsworth.

[Doc Brown]

11 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

 

Might help us actually. Imagine the Bengals get in as the #7 seed at 10-7 and the Texans win the AFCS at 9-8 (not a super unlikely scenario). If we're the #2 seed, in the current format we'd play the Bengals even though the Texans would be the more favorable opponent. In the new proposed format we'd play the Texans because they'd now be the lower seed. So as a higher seed you'd always be guaranteed to face the worst remaining team based on record.

That was my thought too.  Although, nothing would've changed in the last five years as far as Bills WC opponent goes.

Edited 4 hours ago by Doc Brown

[BillsFanForever19]

28 minutes ago, Lost said:

Somehow this will screw the Bills.  It always does

 

I don't know. it would take us winning the division by not a lot and there to be a Division that has multiple teams in it with a better record than us. That seems to be a pretty unlikely scenario for this current team and what the records are for Wild Card teams generally.

[Doc Brown]

45 minutes ago, K D said:

If you are a division winner with a losing record then you shouldn't make the playoffs. Simple as that.

Make them the 7 seed.  It would be weird to celebrate winning the division in week 18 but being eliminated from the playoffs.  Celebrating pouring champagne for five minutes followed by five minutes of sitting down devastated?

[Beast]

Just stupid. Leave it the way it is. Strength of schedule comes into play and there is no fair way to figure that in.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

The whole things kinda blown out or proportion imo.  Minnesota was given ample chance to win their division - specifically the two games they lost to Detroit.  

[Virgil]

I agree with winning the division gets you into the playoffs, but seeding is based off overall record