Division winners vs Playoff spot

[jfkbengals]

(12-31-2020, 12:22 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Agreed. All division winners should make the playoffs, but the seeding for those who make the playoffs should be solely based on record. That way, a wildcard team can get a home game if they play a crappy division winner (looking at you, NFC East).

Way back when, the location of the game was rotational.

That wasn't really fair to the division winner with the better record going on the road to the wild card team, which did happen.

The only fair way to fix was to give the home game to the division winners, going to the best record when the game is between two division winners.

There is no reason to change this, as hosting a playoff game is the reward for winning your division.  Even if your division stinks.

Want to host a playoff game?  Win your division.