Should strength of schedule over-ride head to head in the playoffs
 

Should strength of schedule over-ride head to head into determining play-off seeding?

Hypothetically, if KC loses to the Rams and NE wins out..Patriots get HFA. Both are 14-2. Chiefs two losses came against teams that only lost 3 games. Patriots lost to Jacksonville and Detroit.

Chiefs had to play on the road against NE who were on 10 days rest. How is this considered an equal footing game? Is this really a fair way to determine HFA?

What if Brady had been out for that one game and NE lost? Would that be a fair way to determine HFA?

Seems that if two teams that have the same record...the advantage should be determined by who had the more difficult opponents.

Just a thought...

No, Head to Head should come before strength of schedule. You can't help who you played. I know that's not great for KC this year but it is what it is.

Good luck

I prefer point differential


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I don't know how there could be any better tiebreaker than head to head.

Loudest crowd noise should be the tiebreaker.

Then what would you say when we beat NE head to head but lose out due to “strength of schedule?”

There’s no conspiracy. We didn’t play good enough and lost.

Tired of talking about the Pats. We have Mahomes no reason to fear any opponent in any stadium at any time.

While I understand the OP's point, it has to be head to head. The Cheatriots have had an easy 6 wins for the many years, but you can't deny their success in the playoffs.

They could devise a numeric chart based on number of wins and SOS for each team. Road wins would count more than home wins.

Add up the total for teams that have the same final record....

Beating a 10-6 team, on the road, would carry more value than beating a 2-14 team at home.

It seems this would help level the seeding if a team had more injuries than another and played a more difficult schedule... but lost head to head in week 2.

You know, I was just thinking to myself, "You know what would make the NFL even better? Adding a few more complicated rules." Oh wait...

In the old days the site was predetermined. It was rotated year to year.

Well...that fact that KC played a more difficult schedule this year and still might lose HFA because they had to play NE, AT HOME on 10 days rest, seems like an unfair system.

Head to Head seems to imply "level playing field" when its not...unless the teams play each other twice in both stadiums.

To be fair, we have Mahomes which isn’t really fair to the rest of the league.

Head to Head would only come into play in division ties...since they've played each other twice.

Why not have the tie breaker be average dick length?