JMC00
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I wish our game day thread brethren remembered this .Lol...I don't understand why people feel this team needs to prove themselves every year. They are in deep in the playoffs every year.
Yeah, the total # of games vs playoff teams does seem surprisingly lower than the next group of teams. You'd think that having to play the top teams in each division each year (by virtue of being a top team in their own division the previous year), the Pats would play more playoff-bound teams, not less.
I guess that scheduling effect must be canceled by
- playing the Jets/Bills/Dolphins 6 times a year, over a period when all 3 have been mostly bad
- putting losses on marginal playoff teams and forcing them out of playoff contention
I guess that scheduling effect must be canceled by
- playing the Jets/Bills/Dolphins 6 times a year, over a period when all 3 have been mostly bad
Yes we played fewer playoff teams but that happens when you knock so many playoff bound teams out of the playoffs. And since we win our division each year and usually take two games from each team in it that reduces their chances of making the playoffs.
Those bottom two teams play more playoff teams because they aren’t good and help build playoff teams with all the wins they give other teams. We take them out.
One thing to note is that the Patriots have played notably fewer such games than the bottom two teams on the list.
I guess that's because by definition if you make the playoffs more frequently, then you will play fewer playoff teams.
Still the Pats look like they play 10% less games against playoff teams than the next four teams on the list, for whatever reason. So that might feed into the general feeling behind the thread title.
Some of y'all are missing the point.
Whether or not the Pats played a few less playoff teams is irrelevant... the FACT is, that when they played playoff teams, they had a FAR better record than anyone else. And if they had played a couple more playoff teams it would NOT have changed anything.
The OP came up with a really fine post that helps show the Patriots unprecedented dominance of the NFL since 2001. He made his point loud and clear. The weak attempts by some of you to disparage a really cool stat fell flat.
Yes we played fewer playoff teams but that happens when you knock so many playoff bound teams out of the playoffs. And since we win our division each year and usually take two games from each team in it that reduces their chances of making the playoffs.
Those bottom two teams play more playoff teams because they aren’t good and help build playoff teams with all the wins they give other teams. We take them out.
Whoa whoa whoa...no one's disparaging anyone; we all understood the point of the OP and are actually performing what I think is some pretty smart analysis on the posted stats (as an aside, our country is pretty bad at math and statistics as a whole, but for some reason when it comes to sports, our ability to have well-reasoned, data driven arguments goes up by orders of magnitude).
However, if the Pats Haters say "Patriots never play anyone good", they have a point, because we play fewer playoff teams each year than the other teams represented in the OP. BUT...it's not THAT much fewer (< 1.0), and as people have pointed out maybe one reason is that by virtue of us winning so often, we knock them out of playoff contention.
You could argue that one reason the AFC East is so bad is that each team almost always loses 2 games to the Patriots, which depresses their records (and their fanbases!).