Why is overtime used for regular season games? I've just been looking through the standings and adjusting them to regard any overtime games as ties. The AFC picture is virtually unchanged, except KC come out as No 1 seeds.
In the NFC Philly are no.1 (10-3) ahead of STL (8-3-2). However Carolina would at 5-4-4, miss the playoffs and would lose the division to TB (6-5-2).
I would have thought that this should be used in tiebreakers, rather than divisional record and Conference records and common games.
This just highlights to me that Carolina are just an average team (with a worse record than SF) and will surely go out early in the playoffs.
Carolina, NE and STL have definitely benefited from OT, but TB and SF have really suffered because of it. Maybe these 2 are not as bad as their records show, just unlucky in OT?
In the NFC Philly are no.1 (10-3) ahead of STL (8-3-2). However Carolina would at 5-4-4, miss the playoffs and would lose the division to TB (6-5-2).
I would have thought that this should be used in tiebreakers, rather than divisional record and Conference records and common games.
This just highlights to me that Carolina are just an average team (with a worse record than SF) and will surely go out early in the playoffs.
Carolina, NE and STL have definitely benefited from OT, but TB and SF have really suffered because of it. Maybe these 2 are not as bad as their records show, just unlucky in OT?
