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League will vote in March to expand the playoff field from 12 to 14 teams in 2015

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One formula that will be discussed in the offseason is that in addition to first-round byes for the teams with the best record in the AFC and NFC, two divisional champions in each conference will get home games and the remaining 8 teams will be seeded by win-loss record.
 
The playoff seeding idea has been tabled previously but proponents believe playoff expansion will provide a boost to change.
 
The winner of the NFC South this season will have an 8-8 record at best but will host a playoff game under the current seeding formula with rewards division champions.

 

 

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12026957/reseeding-likely-nfl-playoffs-expand

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This would eliminate any need for divisions besides preserving rivalries. The whole point of divisions is that you have 4 teams with nearly identical schedules. Therefore it is difficult to argue that the winner of a division isn't the best team.

 

What will happen is that you will have situations where a 9-7 teams gets the last playoff spot over an 8-8 team where they have almost no common games. With only 16 games it is much more difficult to see what teams are better. This type of thing really doesn't happen much in other sports.

 

So yeah I vote against it.

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