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01-06-2023 07:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by DanT
(Post 16716049)
That's exactly right. It's also why it's bullshit that, should Cincy and Baltimore be the #3 and #6 team, a coin-flip will decide which stadium they play in, which is to address the supposed inequity that the Ravens would have beaten the Bengals twice but don't have a better winning percentage. The only ****in' way the Ravens would have had at least as good a winning percentage as the Bengals would be for the Bengals to have lost against Buffalo, which didn't happen. If a division winner got beat twice by the second-best team (by winning percentage) in their division, they are still the ****in' division winner, because that means against the other teams the two teams played, the division winner won 3 more ****in' games. Cincy having to risk that coin-flip is nonsense. It's also nonsense, though, that they get to have a coin-flip in the unlikely event that the Chiefs and Bengals face each other in the conference championship, as that pretends that the Bengals actually beat the Bills if one looks at winning percentage to decide conference standings, which has always been the way it's been done.
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The neutral site for Bengals Chiefs in AFC Championship would be if Bills and Bengals have same record at 12-4 and Chiefs finish 13-4.
It is not pretending Bengals beat Bills, it is more like saying that if we forego the option to resume and finish the Bengals v. Bills, it would make no difference as to what 7 teams make the playoffs, but it could result in different seedings based on win percentage and tiebreakers than it would be if game were played.
I think the accommodations are about the idea that it is not impossible to order the game to be played to a result. What are the reasons weighing in favor of ordering the game to be played to a result and what are the reasons weighing in favor of not playing.
Maybe the fact that Chiefs had lost head to head to both teams and had hosted the last 4 AFC Championship affected the willingness to make an accommodation about venue for AFC Championship.
Hypothetically if the Bills Bengals game were played to result after week 18, Chiefs would not be assured the #1 seed with a win over Raiders and a loss to Raiders would put Chiefs at risk of being the #3 seed.
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