Report: NFL considers playoff changes due to Bills/Bengals (Update: Owners approve league proposal limited to AFC changes) (1 Viewer)

[0rion]

How are they going to address the extra bi-week that buffalo/cinci got?

 

[Saint Spud]

No it's not right. CIN would be division winner still since they will be 11-5 and BAL will be 11-6. The determining factor within a division is win percentage and 11-5 (.6875) beats 11-6 (.647) every time. After that it goes to head to head.

If CIN had lost to BUF they would the have been 11-6 with 2 losses to BAL so then they would be a wildcard team.

They’re division winner, but they won’t host the game unless they win a coin toss.



Had they been allowed to play out the Bills game and won, they would have already clinched and gotten the home playoff game.

 

[B4YOU]

The NFL should have resumed the game on Tuesday or Wednesday. All these problems go away then.

 

[Saint Jack]

 

[Saint Jack]

The NFL should have resumed the game on Tuesday or Wednesday. All these problems go away then.

If it was anything else, I would agree.
But one of the players had cardiac arrest. No one is in the condition to play.

 

[Saint Jack]

 

[DaveXA]

Bengals have a valid argument imo. The coin toss thing is stupid. Hopefully Cincy just wins this weekend. As it is they won't have the luxury of resting their players like they would have if they had beaten the Bills.

I think ideally they should have resumed the game on what would be week 19. There are contingencies in place to allow for that to happen. It would move the playoff games back a week and the SB date would not need to be changed.

 

[Consigliere]

NFC also is possible. Not sure if the Saints could get it now or what.

Bet your butt that if we're #8 then they won't.

 

[Optimus Prime]

as big a mess as all this is, imagine if this happened during a wild card game

who know what the options then would have been

 

[VPCajun]

(Update: Owners to vote on league proposal without expanded playoff field)​

When they quickly realized that an expanded playoff field might open the door for the Saints to sneak into the playoffs...

 

[superchuck500]

The owners have voted to approve changes to the existing rule for handling the aftermath of a canceled game, PFT has confirmed.


Per a source with knowledge of the situation, 25 owners voted in favor of the changes, with three or four voting no and the rest abstaining.

The new rule creates a potential neutral-site AFC Championship based on various factors, given the cancellation of Bills-Bengals. The new rule also determines home-field advantage for a Bengals-Ravens wild-card game by a coin flip, if the Ravens beat the Bengals on Sunday.

The existing rule would have determined all seeding based on winning percentage, with no neutral sites or coin flips or any other twists or tweaks.

The NFL has not explained to the media or the general public why the rule on the books was insufficient. The NFL could have previously crafted a rule that would have given the Commissioner the power to make decisions regarding playoff seeding and game location, but it didn’t.

 

[RJ in Lafayette]

The league potentially helped Buffalo and Baltimore and hurt Cincinnati and Kansas City. Cincinnati publicly opposed the changes.

 

[Optimistic Ozzy]

So this has ZERO implications in the NFC?

 

[DaveXA]

So this has ZERO implications in the NFC?

Yep. At least so far. I don't think the adding 8th seed idea was ever a serious consideration.

 

[Moon]

In order to really be fair, they should probably re-start the season