Who will win Super Bowl LI? | |||
| New England Patriots | 51 | 47.66% | |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 3 | 2.80% | |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | 6 | 5.61% | |
| Other (AFC) | 3 | 2.80% | |
| Dallas Cowboys | 10 | 9.35% | |
| Atlanta Falcons | 15 | 14.02% | |
| Seattle Seahawks | 5 | 4.67% | |
| Green Bay Packers | 5 | 4.67% | |
| Other (NFC) | 4 | 3.74% | |
| Scoreboard | 5 | 4.67% | |
| Total: | 107 | ||
Should have gone with my gut, KC looks like they have ATL's number. KC is just a gutty team with some quality wins on their record.
Saints are pretty disappointing, especially when the Lions have a negative record on the road.
| Farsala said: Saints are pretty disappointing, especially when the Lions have a negative record on the road. |
Their D-bag coach was 100% focused on that game last week and didn't prep his guys at all for this one. Plus. Stafford is damned good, to be fair.
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Good start lol
Giants getting steamrolled so far.
So time for a mini rant on NFL tiebreakers. In case you weren't aware, for non divisional teams that don't play each other during the regular season, the first tiebreaker is conference record, followed by common record (if the teams play four or more games against common opponents). Strength of Victory becomes the tiebreaker for teams only after that. Currently, that's the tiebreaker that puts Oakland ahead of New England for the #1 seed in the AFC.
What bothers me is that this tiebreaker is for some reason behind conference record as a determinant. Strength of Victory at least directly relates to the quality of the team; beating stronger opponents should count for something. What does having a better conference record than another team prove if you have the same overall record? Does beating a team that was originally a part of the AFL or NFL (or, in some cases, arbitrarily assigned whether they were going to be part of the AFC or NFC), demonstrate that you are a higher quality team?
I'd personally advocate for Strength of Schedule (which is just behind SoV) being the third tiebreaker behind head to head and common games, as I think it's equally important to look at how bad a team's losses are as well as how good its victories are, but I can see a case being made for SoV. But conference record? That's...really dumb.
(Also as a head's up, divisional records being used to break ties between divisional teams is totally fine, as those are all common opponents).
I switching my pick to the Colts by 7 for tonight. Looks like Luck is cleared to start.
| Arkaign said: The Chiefs/Falcons game is fascinating to me. It looks to be a test of the old adage : defense wins championships. The Chiefs have one of the best defenses in the league, particularly with Houston back. They're not very dynamic offensively at all. The Falcons are the polar opposite. They're all offense, big splash plays. When they've been slowed down this year, they've lost. So I'm curious as to why they're the consensus favorite here. Just the home field pick? Their record this year is really strange |
I should have picked KC, lol :)
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