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I've been a huge supporter of the current playoff format. I like the 12 team playoffs, adding another two teams would water it down, not a fan of reseeding either. That being said, I now think a small tweak should be made to the playoff format.
Division Winners always gets to host a playoff game at home and will seed 1 thru 4 as per normal.
However, to be a division winner you must finish with the highest record in your division and finish with a winning record.(9-7 or higher)
If a division fails to have a division winner with a winning record then the remaining division winners will seed 1 thru 3. There will then be 3 wild card teams who will seed 4 thru 6 based on best record. 1st and 2nd seed still get their bye, 4th seed gets to host a playoff game.
Division winners should always host a home playoff game and seed higher than wild card teams, it's the prize for winning your division. I just think you should finish with a winning record to win your division.
Interesting angle on things, and very well considered, I'd have to say.
I, too, prefer things the way they are, for the most part. I believe that Brother Jamf did such a tremendous job of arguing in favor of the current Format that I cannot improve upon it.
I would not personally embrace the Tweak you suggest, but there's no denying its Merit.
Personally, I love a Spectacle. As much as I've always loved the Lions, I was rooting hard against them a few Years ago, in their Quest for 0-16 Immortality. And for the same reason ~ a gleeful, capering Pleasure in Depravity ~ I am rooting against all NFC South Teams...except the Buccaneers, of course!!
I rooted for Realignment of the Divisions for Decades, and was delighted when they went with the 4 Division Format that I'd always propounded. Only a couple of Changes that I would personally like to see:
01 ~ I believe that Divisions, if possible, should all be geographically homogenous ~ regional, don't you know. As such, I would propose a 3 Way Trade: Miami to the AFC South, IndianaPolis to the AFC North, and Baltimore to the AFC East, bringing all 3 Teams Home, if you will. That would render 31 out of 32 Teams regionally sympatico, in my opinion. You could swap Dallas for Carolina, as well, but that would only be lessening the geographical issue, not eliminating it: You'd still have a Dixie Team in the NFC East...And of course it's not as if it's likely that they'd go for it, anyway, with those Rivalries as old as they are.
02 ~ What I'd really like to see done is a change to the Atrocity that the current TieBreaker Format is. The fact that Strength of Schedule continues to be relegated to #05 or #06, when it's beyond obvious that it should never be anything but #01 or #02, baffles and infuriates me. The idea of a TieBreaker is obviously to deduce which of two (or more) Teams had a Year more worthy than the other(s), and so I ask: What, aside from Head to Head, if that, is a clearer measure of Superiority than Strength of Schedule?? Answer: Nothing.
03 ~ What really irks me about this continuing yearly Atrocity is that, were the TieBreakers not decided upon by drooling Idiots, our Patriots wouldn't've twice gotten screwed out'f Division Titles that they'd earned. True Story. We'd currently be working on our 14th consecutive Divisional Title, which is precisely what our Team earned on the Field of Battle. And while that 2002 Team probably wouldn't've won it all, as we had enormous problems stopping The Run that Year, that 2008 Team was Red Hot in December, and we probably would've laid waste to what was a very weak cluster of PlayOff Contenders that Year, culminating in a Super Bowl Slaughter of the Cardinals, who we'd already annihilated during our December Rampage.
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