Wingnut
Footballguy
With the NFC South the way it is, we could see an 8-9 division winner in the playoffs getting a home playoff game, which brings up the question:
Should a sub .500 division winner be allowed to make the playoffs because they're in a terrible division? Or even a .500 team? I say no.
Hee's my simple solution. Feel free to pick it apart, because maybe I didn't think it through or I missed an obvious flaw.
So...if a team wins their division with a .500 or worse record, that division doesn't get a representative in the playoffs. Sorry about your luck, but if you can't finish .500 or better, you stay home. That team would then be replaced by another wild card team basically, which would be the team with the next best record that isn't already in the playoffs.
So you have the 3 division winners with winning records, and the next best 4 records to be the wildcards, and the non-division winner with the best record gets the 4 seed and a home playoff game.
That's it. Yes, people are gonna argue that division winners should get a spot no matter what, but as history shows, .500 and worst teams just don't go far in the post season, so let's 86 em.
Discuss.
Should a sub .500 division winner be allowed to make the playoffs because they're in a terrible division? Or even a .500 team? I say no.
Hee's my simple solution. Feel free to pick it apart, because maybe I didn't think it through or I missed an obvious flaw.
So...if a team wins their division with a .500 or worse record, that division doesn't get a representative in the playoffs. Sorry about your luck, but if you can't finish .500 or better, you stay home. That team would then be replaced by another wild card team basically, which would be the team with the next best record that isn't already in the playoffs.
So you have the 3 division winners with winning records, and the next best 4 records to be the wildcards, and the non-division winner with the best record gets the 4 seed and a home playoff game.
That's it. Yes, people are gonna argue that division winners should get a spot no matter what, but as history shows, .500 and worst teams just don't go far in the post season, so let's 86 em.
Discuss.
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