Pushback on reseeding NFL playoffs? Why proposal to change format makes sense for league

If Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong were here today, maybe you do not sing “all laughing” in Detroit lions with the NFL playoffs should be reseeded.

Finally, the lions and other pain people around NFL will last smile with the league changes to a playoff semen form. It just will be next week.

The playoff reseeding proposal, first reported that expected from CBS sports in January, will be again subject to discussion to Next week’s league agreement In Minnesota. A vote on “radical” the proposal possible, but multiple sources indicate it’s likely to be required to pass on for the wind 2025 time.

That is a shame, but completely unexpected for the league with the rooted change.

The proposal is a basic one: teams to be a seminal in playoffs based on the winning percentage. Concilianda division, however, things that it is better than the pain spot in the playoffs; It just doesn’t help a team home playoff.

If the proposal has a little chance of a passage, the league does not even take a vote. That is what happens next week.

I am surprised by how much of the peers in the middle – smart people, I want to add – are against this idea. Change in the playoff seed increased regular games, make more competitive games and stretch and most of them with decision performing powers, more money at the game.

Before I go further, as you must address tired “winning your division to matter” cliché. In all offseason program at all 32 teams for as long as time it was, for football coaches and put out of their plans that include winning division. It’s a happy season and this is your playing in front of your home on January.

Division games of materials less

That’s great. You used to be able to buy a house if you worked really hard to see your full-time job too.

The NFL is true for you years, the division football actually matters less than ever before. Before 2020, if a team won its division that had 1-in-2 chance of receiving the first-in a playoff bye. Already has 1-in-4 chance.

Even before the time, if a team does not win his division that had 1-in-6 chance of making the playoffs as a wild card consumer. Today, the team has 1-in-4 chance playing in postseason.

And when the addition of 17th game in 2021 times, in the division of games are properly literally less. Division games is up to 37.5 percent of schedule in 16-game format, and now make up 35.3 percent games with 17 games.

When a league goes to 18 games, if the schedule formula does not have a division game to the extra game, the division of matchups and so for the third season.

18th game is what is important here. More games are added, less important division games are so. But also not only be more bad games in the schedule. Love the largest bankable television in our nation is not good.

Teams such as an extra game to smell and play with a string. Perhaps the year, where the parts are decided in the morning (look at the Bills practice rolled up to the AFC east of Thanksgiving last year) and closed in their interview.

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Filtering of the log, this is sampling of some of the quarterbacks that played legitimate minutes in week 18 last year: Jimmy Garoppolo, Trey Lance, Joe Milton, M. Mariotta, Carson Lance and Mike Alba.

In the above cases involved teams of their playoff situation is not changed or teams that were on the playff picture at all. It seems that gets some better with another week of games added to the schedule under current rules.

Another peeve in this conversation with people reimagine and playoffs have been in the following rules. This team was played as a team underneath these rules. It’s the same madening of the post made analysis we saw with the presidential candidates to win a popular vote but to lose electoral college. Mat played in the week 18 if you knew the event would decide to decide a playoff game, similar to a politician would be much time in California or Texas if the popular vote is all that.

Goodell invested in a playoff change

How much Roger Goodell was officially discussing 18 games for more than a year, the league wants to start warming the idea of ​​a playoff change in the coming years.

“I thought it is very healthy proposal and very healthy point and need to assess and continue to look at the” Goodell said the last month when I asked him about this very proposal. “There was some important information to show that if you really look at some form or version of this.

“But I think the truth is very healthy and I think I will be no more discussion of it. To look at the time structure, there will probably be the game and find new to do it in the game.”

What is goodell so interested in a playoff change? Or if I say, what is the ambassador of the bond whose value has quadruped over the last quarter-century so invested in this?

If you believe in changing the descendants and make more competitive games, then you get nfl will make more money. In the throwaway games in the last two weeks at the time of a sudden can sell better. Ticket prices or crater. Advertisers want to spend on their games that will be more viewers. You get it?

Math is changing in all this for years. But one arithmetic remains the same. Each year a team has 1-in-4 chance of getting a home playoff game, the power of being in four-team division. With this playoff seeding change, all the pain will still enter a year with 1-in-4 case of hosting a playoff game, which are four spots for 16 conference teams.

One legitimate question that was needing to be responding to the next time’s reseeding time’s schedule. If the division of the Victor who played the way of the Playoff game get the classic division of the winner’s schedule next year? I’m not sure, but this is a free idea.

The reseeding comes with the league goes to 18 games in the coming years. Have a scheduling formula tied to the entire regular season and postsason, significant many teams do not know all the opponents in the next year to live champion is crowned. The next day, that will be the presidents on the one team celebrates the world fields, another 31 teams get to stare at finalized slate of the opponents for the next year.

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