On the eve of the Super Bowl, Roger Goodell announced that the NFL would take a look at tweaking the seeding system for the playoffs. This was Goodell's take:
"The focus that we'll probably give it in the short term would be to look at our seeding process. What we'd like to look at is, if a wild-card team has a record that's better than a division winner, should that give the [home-field] advantage to the wild-card team?"
Doesn't that pretty much make the divisions obsolete? The 12-team playoff isn't nearly as neat and tidy as the previous 10-team system, so a change might be welcome. Perhaps four divisions with a bye for each division winner. The wildcard would be the second and third place division finishers in each division (winner then plays the division champ).
In other words, the first two rounds of the playoffs are contained within your division. It might create some redundant match-ups, but the system is easy to understand and creates massive rivalries. The NHL used to do it that way and that's how a lot of their rivalries were built.
"The focus that we'll probably give it in the short term would be to look at our seeding process. What we'd like to look at is, if a wild-card team has a record that's better than a division winner, should that give the [home-field] advantage to the wild-card team?"
Doesn't that pretty much make the divisions obsolete? The 12-team playoff isn't nearly as neat and tidy as the previous 10-team system, so a change might be welcome. Perhaps four divisions with a bye for each division winner. The wildcard would be the second and third place division finishers in each division (winner then plays the division champ).
In other words, the first two rounds of the playoffs are contained within your division. It might create some redundant match-ups, but the system is easy to understand and creates massive rivalries. The NHL used to do it that way and that's how a lot of their rivalries were built.
No comments:
Post a Comment