| RolStoppable said: Oh please, what constitutes an undeserving team is wishy-washy anyway. Remember how the 7-9 Seahawks beat the Saints in the playoffs? Who is the less deserving team here, the one with the worse record or the one that got outplayed by a team with a 7-9 record? Also, each year we usually see at least one division winner with a good record who plays lousy and is one and done. Then you have strength of schedule which gives teams a 10-6 record because they beat all the mediocre and bad teams, but lost all of their games to above average teams. Yes, half the league being in the playoffs would be too much, but 14 teams wouldn't be a bad idea. More playoff games, more opportunities for teams to meet again in the same season. Those are good storylines, when a team had an embarrassing loss early in the season, but then got their act together and gets a rematch in the postseason. |
Good teams lay goose eggs and bad teams get lucky. That doesn't mean I want to count on it. I'd rather remember those games because they're outliers than have to watch yet another pair of 12-4 v. 8-8 games. If you want to improve the quality of play and storylines, drop the rule that automatically lets the division winner in as earlier proposed.
