HomokHarcos on 15 August 2017
| RolStoppable said: If we are talking about personal preferences, I'd suggest to make the number of playoff spots conditional. The minimum remains at the established four division winners and two wild card spots, but every team that finishes with a 10-6 record or better gets into the playoffs. If there's a seventh seed because of this, the second seed will have to play on wild card weekend. An eighth seed is possible (forcing the first seed to play on WCW as well), but would be very rare. The most common playoff setup would be six teams. Of course this means that the AFC and NFC wouldn't neccesarily have the same amount of playoff teams, but it happens regularly that both conferences do not have the same amount of legitimately good teams. Speaking of AFC and NFC though, another way to go about this would be to do away with conferences. Put all division winners and wild card teams in the same pool and determine seeding based on that. Minimum of twelve playoff teams, but everyone with 10-6 or better gets in. In the 12-team-setup, the four highest seeds would get a bye during wild card weekend. In a year with a 13th team, the fourth seed would lose their bye week. Seriously, the AFC and NFC segregation makes us lose out on a lot of possible high profile matchups in the playoffs, because currently such pairings can only materialize in the Super Bowl. |
All American sports segregate the conferences. In But in the NFL the conferences are very arbitrary as it's not geographic.
