Owners vote to expand playoffs to 14 teams

**Ravensforce83** · 03-31-2020, 07:19 PM

I hate this. Too many teams. 8-8 teams will be getting in on the regular. Dumb decision.

**Ortizer** · 03-31-2020, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Ravensforce83

I hate this. Too many teams. 8-8 teams will be getting in on the regular. Dumb decision.

Have to have a long enough season to play 16 games to go 8-8!

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**Culex** · 03-31-2020, 07:46 PM

Regular season games are supposed to be extremely important to the point where losing even just one is a huge deal and that's what makes it that much more exciting. This, takes away from it.

**The Excellector** · 03-31-2020, 07:46 PM

Jesus Christ.

You just knew that someone was going to fuck the golden goose.

**Captain Silver** · 03-31-2020, 07:48 PM

Glad I enjoyed the NFL in it’s glory days. This with the other changes makes me glad I have lost interest over the years.

**DeltaRaven** · 03-31-2020, 08:17 PM

So half the league makes the playoffs. We NBA now.

**alien bird** · 03-31-2020, 08:23 PM

The only equitable way to do this is to either a) go back to 4 teams per conference (division winners only, no wild cards), or b) increase the playoffs to 8 teams per conference (1st & 2nd place teams in each division). Any other system - including the one they currently have - gives far too great an advantage to the teams who get a bye. Teams who play in the first round haven't reached the Super Bowl in years, and that includes division winners. As long as the schedules are unbalanced, there is a huge possibility that a team drawing the bye did so because of a weaker schedule. There should be no byes at all for the playoffs.

**The Excellector** · 03-31-2020, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by DeltaRaven

So half the league makes the playoffs. We NBA now.

A regular season I no longer pay attention to.

**organizedchaos21** · 03-31-2020, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by Ravensforce83

I hate this. Too many teams. 8-8 teams will be getting in on the regular. Dumb decision.

Eight 8-8 teams would have made the playoffs in the 18 seasons since 2002. The same number of 10 win teams would have made the playoffs. I'm much more concerned about the loss of the bye week for the 2 seed. That's a much bigger deal.

Wins	Teams
8	8
8.5	1
9	17
9.5	1
10	8
11	1

Win counts for 7 seed in each conference by season

Season	AFC	NFC
2002	9	9
2003	10	9
2004	9	8
2005	10	9
2006	9	8
2007	10	8
2008	11	9
2009	9	9
2010	9	10
2011	9	8
2012	8	10
2013	8	10
2014	9	10
2015	10	8
2016	9	9
2017	9	9
2018	9.5	8.5
2019	8	9

**L. G. Dupre** · 03-31-2020, 09:01 PM

Hate it.

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**Desert Raven** · 03-31-2020, 09:12 PM

Like it. The top team is the only one who gets the bye, and obviously home field. Makes it more of a prize.

**alien bird** · 03-31-2020, 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by Desert Raven

Like it. The top team is the only one who gets the bye, and obviously home field. Makes it more of a prize.

Right.

So the 12-4 team that plays a kickass schedule and beats the 13-3 team has to play the first round, while the 13-3 team plays a puff schedule and gets a bye.

Yeah, that's fair.