Head coaching grades for all 32 current HC's

[Benton]

(10-14-2016, 04:14 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Also claiming that a 10-6 division champion (15 points) is THREE TIMES BETTER than a 11-5 wildcard team (5 points) makes no sense to me.

http://www.profootballhof.com/news/history-of-the-wild-card/

Quote:Since the Wild Card System began in 1970, only ten wild card teams have advanced all the way to the Super Bowl. Of those, six won the Super Bowl. Only four of those wild card teams -- New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, and Green Bay Packers -- won three games on the road to make it to the Super Bowl.

The season ends sooner for a wildcard — the overwhelming majority of the time — than it does for a division champ. If the SB is the pinnacle, having a swell regular season without being division champ has historically been fairly irrelevant.