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Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars
I doesn't seem fair to me.
11 wins for one team, might be easier than 9 wins for another -- based on their competition. Every team doesn't play the same schedule, so it's not really fair to do it based on record alone. It seems better to do it based on the value of wins (I'm sure there's a term for that, but I don't know it). I think it should factor in strength of schedule somehow.
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I think if the only point was to be fair, they probably shouldn't even do it by wins. Wins loosely correlate to how good a team is, but factors like strength of schedule do screw things up so that lesser teams get more wins (thanks, Giants) and throw the whole playoff system off.
IMO, fair is one thing, but the real goal of the league should be doing everything they can to make it more
competitive. We all have different definations of what fair would be, as this thread shows, but if a rule change made division winners try harder down the stretch to beat opponents, then we absolutely should make that change.