I would prefer a straight seeded tournament. That said, there's no overwhelming unfairness in the current system. You can see a situation where, for example, a team is in 2nd in its division with a 12-4 record unfairly gets homefield over a division winner with an 11-5 record.

Why? Because the team with the 11-5 record was in a divison with two other 11-5 teams and an 8-8 team. The 12-4 team had one team that won its division at 13-3, and two teams that were 5-11. It also faced a crappy division in the other conference, so it's schedule was much weaker, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, not going to get excited about this either way.

I would like to see a rule where 8-8 division winners go on the road if there is a wildcard team with 10 or more wins. Also a 7-9 division winner gets sent to the golf course if there is a 9-7 or better team that would miss the playoffs.

I don't think any team should get a bye in the playoffs.

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Remember in baseball when you either won your division or you got the **** out?

The point of wildcard teams is to give some teams a second chance when they failed to win their division during the regular season. It's proven to be a good model when a team like Green Bay last year just needed some time to get their shit together what with all the injuries and rape they sustained during the regular season.

That does NOT mean the wild card team in entitled to the benefits of a division winner. Don't want to play on the road? Then win your division. Had a bunch of injuries and couldn't make up the games? Then suck it up and beat the so-called "shitty" team on the road.

I guess so an 8-8 team can go to the playoffs at all.

Im fine with it how it is.

Denver won their division and Pitt did not.

Teams with losing records(Seattle)should not qualify for post-season.

Also, 8-8 teams in the playoffs are a whopping 5-9.

That's not great at all, but it's a pretty damn good record for teams that supposedly have no chance.

**** no.

There.

I think we should settle this question BCS style. Random teams will play for championships and big payouts. Seems to work for College football.

And no things should not change. Win your division for home field. Don't make the rules different from year to year depending on who is in. Last year we had a home game because we won our division, even though we hosted a team with a better record.

I'm fine with the home field thing. However, I think there should be a rule that division winners get into the playoffs only if there's no team staying home with 2 more wins.

So if you win the division at 8-8 and some other team is 10-6 and misses a playoff spot, they're in as a third wild card and you're out. Same if you're 9-7 and another team is 11-5, and so on.

I like this idea.

I don't like this idea at all. / Carl & Clark