Two conferences in the AFL... I always forget which one is National and which one is American, so I'll call them conference A and conference B....
Conference A is split into two divisions with 8 teams.
North: Chicago, Colorado, Nashville, Grand Rapids
West: San Jose, Arizona, Los Angeles, Las Vegas
Conference B is split into two divisions with 9 teams
East: Philadelphia, New York, Columbus, Dallas
South: Orlando, Georgia, New Orleans, Tampa, Austin
Now, the playoff rules should be called the "Screw the South" rules. What they do is immediately accept all four division winners and call them seed 1 and 2 from each conference. This prevents another calamity like last year when New York won the division and didn't go to the playoffs when it was simply the best 8 teams that went to the postseason. Two wild cards in each conference.
If the playoffs were to start today, the 1 would be Los Angeles.... as they're the only team in the conference above .500... and the 2 would be Chicago. 3 and 4 would be two wild cards and play on the road, and those teams would be Colorado and Las Vegas, the only two other teams even AT .500 in the conference.... you probably see the problem already...
In Conference B, we have a LOADED deck, namely in the Southern Division... 4 teams are at 3-1 right now, which is obscene. I don't know who would win the division, but 3 of the 4 teams would get in, two of which had to play on the road, and Dallas would represent the East (just like the NFL... what the hell is "East" about Dallas?).
If this were last year's playoff system, the top six seeds would be the 6 3-1 teams, as it should be... But as it is, this is what we've got, and while Conference B struggles to find teams that are even at .500, the Southern Division alone is stock-piled with them and will leave someone out of the postseason.
Worse than this is that the winner of Conference A gets the right to get destroyed by the winner of Conference B in the Arena Bowl in Las Vegas... Could be the EASIEST game to cap all season if San Jose, Chicago, or Colorado don't get their acts together. Please, we've already had Grand Rapids win the Arena Bowl... not LA or LV representing the other conference... anyone but Dallas in B, anyone but LA or LV in A.... The AFL can't afford such a craptastic Arena Bowl for its first on a neutral field....
Anyway, I hope that answers your questions.
--AFLGuru
Conference A is split into two divisions with 8 teams.
North: Chicago, Colorado, Nashville, Grand Rapids
West: San Jose, Arizona, Los Angeles, Las Vegas
Conference B is split into two divisions with 9 teams
East: Philadelphia, New York, Columbus, Dallas
South: Orlando, Georgia, New Orleans, Tampa, Austin
Now, the playoff rules should be called the "Screw the South" rules. What they do is immediately accept all four division winners and call them seed 1 and 2 from each conference. This prevents another calamity like last year when New York won the division and didn't go to the playoffs when it was simply the best 8 teams that went to the postseason. Two wild cards in each conference.
If the playoffs were to start today, the 1 would be Los Angeles.... as they're the only team in the conference above .500... and the 2 would be Chicago. 3 and 4 would be two wild cards and play on the road, and those teams would be Colorado and Las Vegas, the only two other teams even AT .500 in the conference.... you probably see the problem already...
In Conference B, we have a LOADED deck, namely in the Southern Division... 4 teams are at 3-1 right now, which is obscene. I don't know who would win the division, but 3 of the 4 teams would get in, two of which had to play on the road, and Dallas would represent the East (just like the NFL... what the hell is "East" about Dallas?).
If this were last year's playoff system, the top six seeds would be the 6 3-1 teams, as it should be... But as it is, this is what we've got, and while Conference B struggles to find teams that are even at .500, the Southern Division alone is stock-piled with them and will leave someone out of the postseason.
Worse than this is that the winner of Conference A gets the right to get destroyed by the winner of Conference B in the Arena Bowl in Las Vegas... Could be the EASIEST game to cap all season if San Jose, Chicago, or Colorado don't get their acts together. Please, we've already had Grand Rapids win the Arena Bowl... not LA or LV representing the other conference... anyone but Dallas in B, anyone but LA or LV in A.... The AFL can't afford such a craptastic Arena Bowl for its first on a neutral field....
Anyway, I hope that answers your questions.
--AFLGuru
