The commissioner wants the shaft shaft to be reconfigured to bind sowing, regardless of the possibility of a team. The objective is not to promote equity with regard to who is at home and who is on the road in the playoffs; The goal is to make matches at the end of the season more convincing by giving the teams more to play.
It remains to be seen if it happens.
If the commissioner arrives on this subject (yes, the lions have proposed it, but the league office incitement), it creates a separate problem with regard to the planning formula.
Currently, each team plays: (1) six games against the other three teams in their division; (2) Four games against all teams in another conference division, which runs every year; (3) Two games against the teams of the remaining divisions of the conference which ended in the same position the previous year (first, second, third, fourth); (4) Four games against all teams in a division of the other conference, which runs each year; And (5) a match against a team from a division of the other conference which ended in the same position the previous year.
By devaluing a championship of division and emphasizing the competition in the conference, the eight games each year which result from an effort to ensure that the variety of the calendar must be reconsidered. Last year, NFC North teams benefited from playing two of the weak divisions – AFC South and the NFC West. This year, it will be a very different story for Lions, Vikings, Packers and Bears; They play eight games against AFC North and NFC East teams.
Likewise, Rams have a very real chance of being in the head n ° 1 in 2025, since they will play eight games against the AFC South and NFC South teams.
If the record for a relative team not to its division but at its conference will take more importance in an eliminatory tree built according to the total record, the teams must play more games during their conference. Ideally, each team would play a match against all the other teams in their conference – as university conferences have done before becoming too big to allow it.
The most equitable construction on the calendar, if the “lions” proposal passes, would include 15 conference games and two interconevers games. But that would considerably reduce the variety of the calendar.
Our supposition? 345 Park avenue will not be embarrassed by such subtleties of competitive integrity. The current effort aims to make the end -of -season matches more interesting and, in turn, more precious for the networks and, in turn, more precious for the League.
If an effort to revise the calendar will occur, it will require a wave of land from the teams. A wave of earth strong enough to overcome the inertia of a league which will not care about the iniquity which goes from the use of the planning of apples and oranges to create what will be a comparison of apples to apples of the recordings.
The best decision will therefore be to kick this idea focused on greed until 2026, and to ask the “lions” to subject their proposal concerning the sowing of the playoffs with an additional proposal as to the way the planning formula will be modified to make the new approach much fairer than it will be if the change if it is made from 2025.
