Board 8 > NFL playoffs are changing

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SeabassDebeste 02/20/20 2:04:06 PM #51:	playoffs do reward teams that get hot/healthy at the right time - but, it's understandably natural to want the season to end with a climactic showdown as opposed to a foregone conclusion, right? the team with the best record could literally rest their final few games and still be that. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:934645183] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>playoffs do reward teams that get hot/healthy at the right time - but, it's understandably natural to want the season to end with a climactic showdown as opposed to a foregone conclusion, right? the team with the best record could literally rest their final few games and still be that.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Emeraldegg 02/20/20 2:09:58 PM #52:	SeabassDebeste posted... playoffs do reward teams that get hot/healthy at the right time - but, it's understandably natural to want the season to end with a climactic showdown as opposed to a foregone conclusion, right? the team with the best record could literally rest their final few games and still be that. Oh yeah totally, I'm not trying to say it doesn't make sense, it does from an entertainment standpoint. It's just not what I prefer is all. --- I'm a greener egg than the eggs from dr. seuss <cite>Emeraldegg posted [p:934645419] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>SeabassDebeste posted...</cite> <quote>playoffs do reward teams that get hot/healthy at the right time - but, it's understandably natural to want the season to end with a climactic showdown as opposed to a foregone conclusion, right? the team with the best record could literally rest their final few games and still be that.</quote> Oh yeah totally, I'm not trying to say it doesn't make sense, it does from an entertainment standpoint. It's just not what I prefer is all.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Leonhart4 02/20/20 2:21:27 PM #53:	skullbone posted... Nobody wants the best team to win, they want THEIR team to win. Exactly. Everyone wants to believe their team has a chance. And I don't care that much about "fair" with playoffs. I'm fine if the best regular season team doesn't win. --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB <cite>Leonhart4 posted [p:934645898] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>skullbone posted... </cite> <quote>Nobody wants the best team to win, they want THEIR team to win.</quote> Exactly. Everyone wants to believe their team has a chance. And I don't care that much about "fair" with playoffs. I'm fine if the best regular season team doesn't win. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Ashethan 02/20/20 2:46:25 PM #54:	Winning your division should definitely earn you HFA in the playoffs. If the 12-4 Seahawks can't beat the 8-8 Eagles because the game's in Philly, then the 12-4 Seahawks aren't really the better team. --- Board 8 Mafia Archive: ashchive.altervista.org <cite>Ashethan posted [p:934646919] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Winning your division should definitely earn you HFA in the playoffs. If the 12-4 Seahawks can't beat the 8-8 Eagles because the game's in Philly, then the 12-4 Seahawks aren't really the better team. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Emeraldegg 02/20/20 3:17:58 PM #55:	Sports are far too fluky to definitively say that a team is definitely better/worse than another based on the results of one game. --- I'm a greener egg than the eggs from dr. seuss <cite>Emeraldegg posted [p:934648262] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Sports are far too fluky to definitively say that a team is definitely better/worse than another based on the results of one game.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Leonhart4 02/20/20 3:32:48 PM #56:	But the fact that anything can happen in a single game is part of what makes sports great --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB <cite>Leonhart4 posted [p:934648915] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>But the fact that anything can happen in a single game is part of what makes sports great </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Emeraldegg 02/20/20 3:49:29 PM #57:	Sure, I'm not disagreeing with that Ashethan posted... If the 12-4 Seahawks can't beat the 8-8 Eagles because the game's in Philly, then the 12-4 Seahawks aren't really the better team. This is what I'm disagreeing with. --- I'm a greener egg than the eggs from dr. seuss <cite>Emeraldegg posted [p:934649620] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Sure, I'm not disagreeing with that Ashethan posted...</cite> <quote>If the 12-4 Seahawks can't beat the 8-8 Eagles because the game's in Philly, then the 12-4 Seahawks aren't really the better team.</quote> This is what I'm disagreeing with.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MZero11 02/20/20 7:12:27 PM #58:	ShatteredElysium posted... Playoffs reward the team who is healthiest and in the best form at the end of the season rather than rewarding the team who has been the best for the entire season. Every game should matter and with playoff systems that frequently isn't the case I mean even if you go by regular season standings it still rewards who was healthiest If Giannis got hurt for a month or two the Bucks would be toast, whereas with a playoff system they'd still have a chance to run through the bracket if he got back in time. --- MZero, to the extreme I'm a cheater at videogames - ertyu <cite>MZero11 posted [p:934658607] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>ShatteredElysium posted... </cite> <quote>Playoffs reward the team who is healthiest and in the best form at the end of the season rather than rewarding the team who has been the best for the entire season. Every game should matter and with playoff systems that frequently isn't the case</quote> I mean even if you go by regular season standings it still rewards who was healthiest If Giannis got hurt for a month or two the Bucks would be toast, whereas with a playoff system they'd still have a chance to run through the bracket if he got back in time. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SeabassDebeste 02/20/20 7:43:45 PM #59:	MZero11 posted... I mean even if you go by regular season standings it still rewards who was healthiest If Giannis got hurt for a month or two the Bucks would be toast, whereas with a playoff system they'd still have a chance to run through the bracket if he got back in time. the team that's healthiest over a whole season is better though giannis getting hurt in april or may would be a travesty, like last year's finals --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:934659960] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>MZero11 posted...</cite> <quote> I mean even if you go by regular season standings it still rewards who was healthiest If Giannis got hurt for a month or two the Bucks would be toast, whereas with a playoff system they'd still have a chance to run through the bracket if he got back in time. </quote> the team that's healthiest over a whole season is better though giannis getting hurt in april or may would be a travesty, like last year's finals</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Jakyl25 02/20/20 8:16:26 PM #60:	Leonhart4 posted... But the fact that anything can happen in a single game is part of what makes sports great By great you mean arbitrary --- Thank you, Eddie Guerrero. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRlKR5nU8AA_v_C?format=jpg&name=large <cite>Jakyl25 posted [p:934661344] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Leonhart4 posted...</cite> <quote>But the fact that anything can happen in a single game is part of what makes sports great </quote> By great you mean arbitrary</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Leonhart4 02/20/20 9:11:29 PM #61:	Jakyl25 posted... By great you mean arbitrary I mean, it's not arbitrary. It's not like it's decided by random number generator. That's just how parity works. Sports don't operate by the X-Stats. --- https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq https://imgur.com/89Z5jrB <cite>Leonhart4 posted [p:934663604] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Jakyl25 posted... </cite> <quote>By great you mean arbitrary</quote> I mean, it's not arbitrary. It's not like it's decided by random number generator. That's just how parity works. Sports don't operate by the X-Stats. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
neonreaper 02/20/20 9:22:38 PM #62:	why even care about sports if you're worried about it being arbitrary? you're not playing, just watching other men do arbitrary things. --- Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards. <cite>neonreaper posted [p:934664068] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>why even care about sports if you're worried about it being arbitrary? you're not playing, just watching other men do arbitrary things. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Jakyl25 02/20/20 9:44:49 PM #63:	neonreaper posted... why even care about sports if you're worried about it being arbitrary? you're not playing, just watching other men do arbitrary things. Thats why I stopped caring! I only watch for the storylines --- Thank you, Eddie Guerrero. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRlKR5nU8AA_v_C?format=jpg&name=large <cite>Jakyl25 posted [p:934665044] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>neonreaper posted...</cite> <quote>why even care about sports if you're worried about it being arbitrary? you're not playing, just watching other men do arbitrary things. </quote> Thats why I stopped caring! I only watch for the storylines</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
neonreaper 02/20/20 9:48:03 PM #64:	I felt like football had the perfect schedule before Thursday night football fwiw. Now its a little too much and having one team get a bye and home field isnt what I would want --- Donny: Are they gonna hurt us, Walter? Walter: No, Donny. These men are cowards. <cite>neonreaper posted [p:934665163] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>I felt like football had the perfect schedule before Thursday night football fwiw. Now its a little too much and having one team get a bye and home field isnt what I would want </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Nelson_Mandela 02/20/20 11:23:48 PM #65:	So is the CBA that players are complaining about wrapped up with this playoff change? --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:934668627] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>So is the CBA that players are complaining about wrapped up with this playoff change? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MegamanX 02/20/20 11:36:54 PM #66:	Nelson_Mandela posted... So is the CBA that players are complaining about wrapped up with this playoff change? yes its like a political bill, many layers --- XBL/PSN/:StingX2 Switch: 0675-3724-0313 <cite>MegamanX posted [p:934669104] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Nelson_Mandela posted... </cite> <quote>So is the CBA that players are complaining about wrapped up with this playoff change?</quote> yes its like a political bill, many layers </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MZero11 02/21/20 12:13:32 AM #67:	SeabassDebeste posted... the team that's healthiest over a whole season is better though giannis getting hurt in april or may would be a travesty, like last year's finals Exactly. As it stands, as long as Giannis isn't hurt for the playoffs, the Bucks have a shot. With the other system, if he misses a month at any point they're basically out of it. There's more potential for an entire season to be lost. Also with basketball you have to beat a team 4 times which removes a lot of the flukiness, like the '14 Hawks for example. --- MZero, to the extreme I'm a cheater at videogames - ertyu <cite>MZero11 posted [p:934670374] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>SeabassDebeste posted... </cite> <quote>the team that's healthiest over a whole season is better though giannis getting hurt in april or may would be a travesty, like last year's finals</quote> Exactly. As it stands, as long as Giannis isn't hurt for the playoffs, the Bucks have a shot. With the other system, if he misses a month at any point they're basically out of it. There's more potential for an entire season to be lost. Also with basketball you have to beat a team 4 times which removes a lot of the flukiness, like the '14 Hawks for example. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LeonhartFour 02/21/20 12:19:00 AM #68:	well the 2014 Hawks also had one of their best players get his leg broken by the police --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq <cite>LeonhartFour posted [p:934670554] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>well the 2014 Hawks also had one of their best players get his leg broken by the police </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MZero11 02/21/20 12:31:40 AM #69:	LeonhartFour posted... well the 2014 Hawks also had one of their best players get his leg broken by the police That is a bit of a stretch >_> --- MZero, to the extreme I'm a cheater at videogames - ertyu <cite>MZero11 posted [p:934670974] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>LeonhartFour posted... </cite> <quote>well the 2014 Hawks also had one of their best players get his leg broken by the police</quote> That is a bit of a stretch >_> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LeonhartFour 02/21/20 12:33:15 AM #70:	I mean Sefolosha was pretty good for them regardless the fluky part is that LeBron no longer cared about the regular season at that point in his career so the Hawks having the best record in the East didn't matter (also he hated David Blatt and actively tried to get him fired) --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq <cite>LeonhartFour posted [p:934671019] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>I mean Sefolosha was pretty good for them regardless the fluky part is that LeBron no longer cared about the regular season at that point in his career so the Hawks having the best record in the East didn't matter (also he hated David Blatt and actively tried to get him fired) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MZero11 02/21/20 12:40:24 AM #71:	He wasn't bad but he was like their 7th best player Lebron also missed two weeks or so with injury that season iirc --- MZero, to the extreme I'm a cheater at videogames - ertyu <cite>MZero11 posted [p:934671271] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>He wasn't bad but he was like their 7th best player Lebron also missed two weeks or so with injury that season iirc </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
LeonhartFour 02/21/20 12:41:18 AM #72:	it wasn't injury he decided to go hang out in Miami for two weeks --- http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/080/145/638.png https://imgur.com/WqDcNNq <cite>LeonhartFour posted [p:934671308] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>it wasn't injury he decided to go hang out in Miami for two weeks </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MZero11 02/21/20 12:48:56 AM #73:	Wasn't that another year? I think he had a legit back injury in 2014-15 --- MZero, to the extreme I'm a cheater at videogames - ertyu <cite>MZero11 posted [p:934671551] in NFL playof... [t:78418529]...</cite> <quote>Wasn't that another year? I think he had a legit back injury in 2014-15 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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