Weight Of Division Record
 

So I was bored and was rummaging around some of the old threads on here and came across the link to CBS Sportsline's Power Rankings, where the Skins are currently the lowest ranked NFC East team (all four NFC East teams are in the top half of their rankings). I know we've all moaned about this and similar rankings in the past and of course, the poll is just someone's stupid opinion, but it got me riled up again, particularly since we had the best division record last season.

If I understand the rules correctly, a team's divisional record has no weight in the team's status as a 'Division Champion' (aside from the fact that the more division games you win, the better your W/L record will be compared to other teams in the division, and therefore, the greater chance you have of being the Division Champion). But on it's own, the divisional record is only used for tiebreaking procedures.

So do you guys think the divisional record, on it's own, should factor into the determination of the Divisional Champ? If so, how? Or would that unnecessarily complicate the standings? Forgive me if this idea has already been dissected.

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I think it should. I mean if the Skins wouldn't have lost those AFC games this year, THEY would have been the NFC champs.

I say let the division record determine who's the divisional champ and if there needs to be a tiebreaker, use the overall record.

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[quote=crlesh]So I was bored and was rummaging around some of the old threads on here and came across the link to CBS Sportsline's Power Rankings, where the Skins are currently the lowest ranked NFC East team (all four NFC East teams are in the top half of their rankings). I know we've all moaned about this and similar rankings in the past and of course, the poll is just someone's stupid opinion, but it got me riled up again, particularly since we had the best division record last season.

If I understand the rules correctly, a team's divisional record has no weight in the team's status as a 'Division Champion' (aside from the fact that the more division games you win, the better your W/L record will be compared to other teams in the division, and therefore, the greater chance you have of being the Division Champion). But on it's own, the divisional record is only used for tiebreaking procedures.

So do you guys think the divisional record, on it's own, should factor into the determination of the Divisional Champ? If so, how? Or would that unnecessarily complicate the standings? Forgive me if this idea has already been dissected.[/quote]No I don't think the divisonal record should be any more of a deciding factor in deciding the champion than a tiebreaker. The sample size is too small.

Don't put too much (translation: any) stock into the CBS powerrankings. They are all Pete Prisco's opinions, and he makes ST21 look like a genius in most of his writings.

-EDIT-500th post!

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And you didn't say anything about BSB?! For shame.

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Maybe at 1000...500 is too insignificant to honor him with.

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Just wait unless he sees that.

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Anyway, how are you not division champion if you've beaten EVERYONE in your division, but just had bad luck elsewhere? It's kind of pointless to me to award someone you've maybe swept, division champ.

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just win the games your supposed to and the tiebreakers dont matter.and by the way,good morning tmc

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Good morning to you sir.

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[quote=GTripp0012]They are all Pete Prisco's opinions, and he makes ST21 look like a genius in most of his writings.
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:laughing2 Awesome, I love it.

And Congrats on 500!

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I got into an arguement with a random [B]Vag-iants[/B] (I just came up with that one and I'm very proud) fan over this a couple of months ago. He randomly started talking shit to me because of my Skins hat at a bar even though (at the time) we were still in the playoffs and they had been shut out at home by Carolina. He tried to say they had such a great season b/c they won the division, but he wouldn't listen to my arguement that we had a better division/playoff record.

I honestly believe that if you go 6-10 with your only wins coming against division teams, you should have every right to claim the division championship. If the other teams couldn't beat you at least once, are they really that much better?


division.

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Don't all teams in the division the same teams except for in 2 games? We lost our division last year because we lost to KC and/or Oakland and the Giants beat them. Seems fair to me.

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[QUOTE=ArtMonkDrillz][B]Vag-iants[/B][/QUOTE]
Sorry to burst the bubble but that one has been around here for a while.

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Sorry Grillz, that reference is old unfortunately. If there's a hilarious name to call the other teams, we've all thought of it.

I always liked the OBGYants.

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Damn, we all just gang-raped Grillz. LOL