New NFL Playoffs

I have a brand new way of deciding who will play in the Super Bowl. We will just take whoever we think the best two teams are, and have them play for the championship. This year it would be the Giants playing the Titans. We don’t need a playoff system because those two teams are obviously the best teams in the NFL.

In future years, say we have a team finish 14-2, but the next best record, say 12-4, is the same record for 3 teams. Well that solution is very simple as well. Whoever we thought was going to be better at the beginning of the year will get the nod because say if one the 12-4 teams is a team that came out of nowhere. Well their season was obviously a fluke, and the preseason favorite should play for the title. Now we have 2 teams at 12-4, how do we decide who plays for the title? If they don’t play head-to-head, we will vote on who had to play in the tougher conference. Hypothetically, we will apply this format to the current NFL season. Say the Titans is the team that finishes 14-2, and the other two teams at 12-4 are the Giants and the Cardinals. The Giants will play in the Super Bowl because the NFC East this year is much tougher than the NFC West. But don’t worry; we will put the Cards in a meaningless game against some other random team/division winner.

We could also use the aid of computers to help decide the better team. The computer calculates rankings based on a team’s schedule and who they beat, and the teams that were beaten by the teams the original team beat. Let’s say the 12-4 teams are Team A and Team B and a random team, Team C, is 8-8, and another random team, Team D, is 6-10. During the course of the season, Team A and Team B beat Team D. Team B also beats Team C, but Team A loses to Team C. Although Teams A and B have the same record, didn’t play against each other, and have similarly tough divisions, Team B gets to play in the Super Bowl because they beat a team that Team A lost to. That way, no human error is involved and we can get rid of a biased voting system. It’s that simple.

We will then have the division winners (8 teams) and 4 wildcard teams play each other in meaningless games just for the hell of it. So, the way that it will work out is that we will have 2 playing in the Super Bowl, and 10 other teams just playing for the hell of it, the “Just for the hell of it” games will be held on super bowl weekend. We can even get corporate sponsorship, such as Aflac or Applebee’s for the “Just for the hell of it” games.

There you have it, the perfect system for deciding the NFL champion. There isn’t a single flaw. I came up with that all on my own. Hopefully someday I can get the NCAA to follow such a format…