Al Michaels on the 'Skins-Giants tie-breaker

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Big C

if we win out and giants lose out our common games records would be
giants 6-6 (not including against skins)
redskins 7-5

basically if i did this right, its because we lost to the bucaneers, who the giants didnt play, and the giants beat both the teams they played that we didnt (49ers and falcons, how easy were those games for them geez!)

I posted this in another thread, but you're right, common opponents is the #3 tiebreaker (if there are at least 4 common opponents it actually comes in ahead of conference record) and here is how it breaks down:

In that scenario we would hold the tiebreakers over New York and Minnesota. We would lose in the tiebreaker to New Orleans (conference record). Saints would go in as they #5 and the Skins would go in as the #6.

The third tiebreaker is common games (after head-to-head and division record), which only comes into play when there are 4 or more common opponents, the Redskins and Giants share 12 common games (not including head-to-head).

Giants: lost to Dallas twice (0-2), lost to Green Bay (0-3), beat Philly twice (2-3), beat the Jets (3-3), beat Miami (4-3), beat Detroit (5-3), lost to Minnesota (5-4), beat Chicago (6-4), and in your scenario would lose to Buffalo and New England (6-6).

Redskins: Beat Miami (1-0), split with Philly (2-1), beat Detroit (3-1), lost to Green Bay (3-2), lost to New England (3-3), beat the Jets (4-3), lost to Buffalo (4-4), beat Chicago (5-4), and in your scenario they would beat Minnesota and split with Dallas (7-5).