Quote:How are they getting shafted? If they're good enough to win, they'll win. Simple as that.  If a team wins their division at 6-10 they should be allowed to play at home. The #5 seed should be able to beat them out if the 6-10 team isn't good enough. Having the game at home only gives them an advantage. It doesn't shaft the other team.  

 

What about a team that goes 8-8 because they have a tough division, with 5 losses coming from the division. Then you have a wild card team that went 11-5, because the only good team they play is their divisional winner. They get 4 wins from the other conference (another weak division where the winner went 9-7 with 6 wins from the division, 2 from the other teams in the same division, and another win somewhere else), 4 wins from their awful sub-4 win teams in their division, 2 wins from their terrible sub-5 win teams in the other divisions, and then a win from the worst team in the other same-conference division they face.  Why does the 11-5 team deserve a home game here?

 

If a sub-.500 team can beat them, then they don't really deserve to go any further in the playoffs. It's win or go home. Teams shouldn't be babysat because they were in a tough division that they couldn't win.

 

You are making it too complicated. Eleven wins is 11 wins no matter where they come from. As the only team in the division without a losing record, the Colts swept every AFCS opponent. How do you not reward a team that won all six divisional games and beat the best teams in the toughest division (who are #1 and #5 in the playoffs)? All of those accomplishments certainly are worth playing at home.

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