Pick which winning percentage you want (1 Viewer)

[44slayer]

10-7 isnt a contender. It just means you played well enough to save your HCs job more or less. Tampa played a week longer than us at 10-7. They are watching just like we are now.

Ill take the 30% chance at 14, a likely 1st round bye and home throughout.

 

[Pocket Hercules]

Well the goal is to win a championship not win 10 games.

Give me option 2.

A 10-7 team literally smoked a 14-3 team in the NFL playoffs less than 24 hours ago. Upsets happen in the playoffs virtually every year. The more chances you get, the greater your odds to get hot or get a few breaks at the right time.

 

[Madmarsha]

60 percent of the time they'll win every time

 

[WhoDat?DrewDat]

A 10-7 team literally smoked a 14-3 team in the NFL playoffs less than 24 hours ago. Upsets happen in the playoffs virtually every year. The more chances you get, the greater your odds to get hot or get a few breaks at the right time.

14-3 teams usually play at home. This was the first time in history a 14 win team didn't have home field adv throughout the playoffs.

 

[Vision]

two scenarios:
1: 10 wins (no more, no less) for the next 5 years
2: 30% chance of a 14-3 record in 2 years and then ??? (but 70% chance of below .500)

I take 1.

 

[Saint KayBee]

Option 2 because 10 wins could get you the division but 14 wins will get you the conference

 

[St. Geezy]

14-3 teams usually play at home. This was the first time in history a 14 win team didn't have home field adv throughout the playoffs.

In fairness, there were many 13-3 teams that didn’t have homefield throughout the playoffs, including us twice; they just didn’t get the “privilege” of playing a 17th game.

You do have a point though in that usually 13 or 14 win teams are virtually never playing on the road in round 1.

I still think the NFL playoff system is flawed in that regard. If the objective is to give the best teams the easiest path to the title, seeding should go strictly by record.

Sure, award division winners with the playoff berth, but the better, superior teams as defined by W-L record should be hosting.

A home playoff game is too much of a reward for winning a subpar division IMO, and having to play on the road in round 1 is too stiff of a penalty just because you happened to play in a division with a fellow great record team that barely edged you out of the top spot.