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[THE PISTONS]

(04-03-2019, 03:34 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: It's kind of interesting that you use Super Bowl wins as your barometer for success and not playoff wins. I'll play along.


Winning a playoff game is really a common thing. We've elevated it to the mythical white whale here. But, to win a SB, you need to 1st win playoff games. Generally the teams with the most playoff wins, have won SB's. So if a Super Bowl is the goal, then playoff wins is a Key Performance Indicator...a checkpoint as to how close you are to that goal if you will.

Don't believe it?

Here's the playoff records 1991-2015. This is the Top 11 Teams in Playoff Wins over that span. (They've all won SB's! Every single one of them. And some multiple Super Bowls!)


Patriots: 25-12
Packers: 19-16
Steelers: 18-14
Ravens: 15-8
Broncos: 15-11
Cowboys: 14-10
49ers: 14-11
Colts: 14-15
Seahawks: 12-10
Eagles: 12-13
Giants: 11-7

The bottom 10 Teams in playoff wins? Only 1 Super Bowl and that was the Bucs.
Raiders: 5-5
Jaguars: 5-6
Buccaneers: 5-6
Dolphins: 5-9
Bears: 4-6
Chiefs: 4-11 (broke a 22 year streak last year)
Texans: 2-3 (both wins over Bengals)
Browns: 1-2 (streak is now at 19 seasons)
Lions: 1-8 (their streak is only 1 year shorter)
Bengals: 0-7 (the streak is now up to 26 seasons)

People seem to downplay the lack of postseason success of the Bengals...so this is my rebuttal.


Anyone (FRED) care to reply to this post that there IS indeed a correlation between playoff wins and Super Bowls? The Top 11 teams in playoff wins since 1991 have ALL WON SUPER BOWLS.

Of the bottom 10 teams...ONLY 1 has.

Seems a Super Bowl isn't something that you just randomly win out of nowhere. Consistent playoff success leads to Super Bowl wins.

Any comments?