NFL Will Consider Changing Playoff Format

I like the reward for winning your division of a home game. So I'm ok with it as it is.

It needs to change but probably won't. If a team plays in a division with nothing but crappy teams and the division leader ends up with a .500 or slightly better record they should not be rewarded with a home game in the first round of the playoffs.

All division winners should make the playoffs but seeding should be based on record.

I don’t care to see any changes as to who makes the playoffs, but I definitely consider the home field advantage set up stupid. I’ve never understood it. I know people like to say bad division this or that, but in my mind having an elite record is extremely difficult (much more so than winning a division) no matter what and should be rewarded for it.

You dont need division vs wildcard labels if this becomes strictly top 6 or 7 get to the dance, and home game seeding is strictly w/l based too.

I personally dont think it'll happen.

1VikesFan wrote:
All division winners should make the playoffs but seeding should be based on record.

I definitely agree that division winners should make the playoffs. I just don't think, for example, a 9-8 team should host a 14-3 team. I'm all for changing the format to achieve that. There might be a situation where a division winner would make the playoffs over a team with a better record and I'm OK with that, but once the division winners are determined, seed the field by record and record only.

1VikesFan wrote:
All division winners should make the playoffs but seeding should be based on record.

They will change it the year we win our division with 8 wins.

FLVike wrote:

They will change it the year we win our division with 8 wins.

That is the Vikings way

FLVike wrote:

They will change it the year we win our division with 8 wins.

So true.

I like it the way it is. It makes the last couple regular games mean more and increases rivalries within your division. The amount of times when something as lop-sided as this year happens is pretty rare, where a very mid team is hosting a very good team and I just don't really care that much when a 10-7 team has to travel to a 7-10 team.

I won't be heartbroken or anything if it changes, and I get that perspective. I just don't think the league will do it when it makes more games less interesting.

Speaking of changes. Why the Fk is there two games on at 330 and why couldn’t we play tonight?

I don’t recall two games at the same time and Monday sucks.

AGRforever wrote:
Speaking of changes. Why the Fk is there two games on at 330 and why couldn’t we play tonight? 

I don’t recall two games at the same time and Monday sucks.

There is not two games on at the same time. You must have seen a replay broadcast on NFL Network. They like to do that for obvious reasons.

Needs to be fixed, regualr season is to compete for division championships, playoffs is for conference championship and the slotting needs to reflect that. Division winners get in, should be nothing more, home field should be based on conference standings at the emd of the season, a bracket made, and the games played off that bracket, no reseeding after the playoffs start

Kinda bullshit that the lions get home field and then also get the lowest remaining seed after the wildcard round.

FLVike wrote:

There is not two games on at the same time. You must have seen a replay broadcast on NFL Network. They like to do that for obvious reasons.

Lol. That’s probably it. It’s not as easy to see where you’re getting the feed on Hulu.

The Vikings were involved in the last playoff game change...the OT rules. (When we played the Saints and we never touched the ball and they went down and kicked a FG to advance to the Super Bowl). This year, there were three teams that played away games with teams with inferior records. Home advantage should go to the teams with the best records, and the division winners should qualify as well. It's simple.

I'd like to see it changed to best record gets the higher seed. The reality is the Lions, Viking and Packers all had a much tougher schedule this year due to strength of the teams in the conference. I would like, however, for the first tie breaker to be conference champion. If two 10-7 teams make the playoffs (one wild card and one conference) the conference champion should get the higher seed.

Hey NFL owners: Would you like to change from the system where if you win your division with a good not great team you get a home playoff game and all the revenue from it, to one where you give that up to some better team and go on the road to play that team instead?

NFL owners: Ummm...