Ties

[BengalChris]

(11-01-2016, 10:00 PM)junglefever67 Wrote: what affect do ties have on playoffs?

It's a half a loss and a half a win. But since we already had 4 losses we're behind any team that has 4 losses or fewer. That currently puts us behinds Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Oakland, Denver, Kansas City, New England, Houston, Tennessee, Buffalo and Miami. Yes, that tie sucked bad.

You can look at it like this:

Say 9 wins get you in the playoffs. It might not, but let's say it will. With the tie we still need 6 more wins to have 9. That means we can only have two more losses. A record of 8-7-1 isn't going to get us in the playoffs unless for some reason that record will win the division, which it won't.

So the Bengals are now in a situation where we really need to go 7-1 the rest of the way to end up at 10-5-1 to be fairly sure we'll have a playoff spot. If we go 6-2 the rest of the way and end with a 9-6-1 record we'll have the edge over 9-7 teams for a wildcard spot, but any 10 win team will move ahead of us.

Each loss the rest of the way is a nail the coffin. Three more losses knocks us out of the playoffs for sure. Two more losses might knock us out.