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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
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But you do have interesting ideas with % of playoff spots vs % of divisional play. But I can't see the NFL wanting more playoff teams. There is talk about expanding the schedule, perhaps that would allow more teams to play more non-divisional opponents and smooth out these issues.
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I had heard that they NFL was thinking about an 18 game schedule too as a means of increasing revenues, which would make Divisional play only account for 33% of the schedule. I also agree that they don't want to add two more playoff teams and take away the bye weeks for the top teams.
In order to get the percentages a bit more in line maybe they could offer up playoff spots guaranteed to the top 3 Division winners and grant those teams the 1-2-3 seeds and than offer up the 3 wild card spots to the other teams. I can't remember any other year since the 32 team league and 8 Division format went into place that there was a team miss the playoffs because a Division winner bumped them with a lesser record. This has been an odd year, 7 teams who probably end up with 4 or fewer wins including a team who could be 0-16. Than when the best teams have 13 wins....it allows for a lot of other teams to post 10 or more wins.
I like the NFL schedule...but I think the playoff format could be looked at.