Race for the #1 pick

[nascher]

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

I'd knock the Vikes off the list, but, there could be 5 teams going 0-16 this year.
I beleive the Chiefs have the stongest schedule so they'd have the 5th pick overall.

no expert ! That would loose us the tiebreaker you win if your SOS is actually lower/weaker because you are considered even weaker.
Anyway we are going to win some games.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by nascher

no expert ! That would loose us the tiebreaker you win if your SOS is actually lower/weaker because you are considered even weaker.
Anyway we are going to win some games.

The tiebreaker part of this post is correct. Whether we win any games remains to be seen.

[alnorth]

Also, losing to a particular bad team (eg Indy) doesn't matter except to the extent that we stick them with a win.

SOS is the FIRST tiebreaker, head to head never factors into it. Our SOS will screw us, so we can't tie for the worst, we have to be the clear-cut crappiest team in the NFL.

[banyon]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Also, losing to a particular bad team (eg Indy) doesn't matter except to the extent that we stick them with a win.

SOS is the FIRST tiebreaker, head to head never factors into it. Our SOS will screw us, so we can't tie for the worst, we have to be the clear-cut crappiest team in the NFL.

I think we have it in us!

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by alnorth

Also, losing to a particular bad team (eg Indy) doesn't matter except to the extent that we stick them with a win.

SOS is the FIRST tiebreaker, head to head never factors into it. Our SOS will screw us, so we can't tie for the worst, we have to be the clear-cut crappiest team in the NFL.

This is partially correct. SOS is the first tie-breaker. But against Indy, if we both had the same SOS, we would enter the conference tiebreaker, in which case the H-T-H record would break the tie. However, H-T-H would not matter under any circumstance against Minnesota or any other team from the NFC.