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MTZehvor on 02 October 2015
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RolStoppable said:
MTZehvor said:

Personally, I'd argue against postseason expansion. Twelve teams is plenty. If anything, what they should do is put in some requirement stating that you must have a winning record to make the postseason. That I'd be fine with. Someone like Houston or Kansas City last year did not deserve to be in the postseason. I don't think we should take the byes away from the 2 seeds just to allow a few more mediocre teams into the playoffs.

I have no problem with getting rid of the preseason game, though. And, really, the NFL doesn't need anything to make up the lost revenue. A $7.2 billion dollar per year league can afford to lose a single preseason game.

The argument against mediocrity being allowed into the playoffs doesn't hold water when under current rules the winner of a division goes into the playoffs with home field advantage regardless of their record. Likewise, the requirement being a positive record would lead to years where playoff spots get cut, even under the current rules of only six teams per conference. It would be really odd to have only five teams of a conference in the playoffs every now and then.

What happens more often than not is that teams with a winning record get left out of the playoffs, so an additional spot per conference is a good idea. It's not just that though, because seven playoff spots per conference would keep teams longer in the hunt and result in more meaningful games down the stretch of the season. Because the biggest failure of America's franchise system for sports is that teams that have no chance to reach the playoffs anymore have no real reason to win games anymore. Quite the opposite actually, because the rules for the draft make losing attractive.

I agree that the rules in place are bad because they allow division winners in regardless; but that simply means the solution is to get rid of that rule as opposed to just opening it up to teams that are, more often than not, barely over .500 squads that shouldn't be in the postseason.

We've seen the flipside of having half your conference make the playoffs with the NBA. So many teams that should never be in the postseason. There's much easier ways to fix some undeserving teams being let in the postseason than by letting even more undeserving teams be in the postseason.