The current NFL structure often results in teams with lower disks hosting eliminatory matches, because each champion of division is guaranteed one of the first four places of the conference eliminatory tree. This arouses periodic complaints, when joker teams with better records than division champions must play on the road in the playoffs.
The Lions, who should have faced this result if they lost a match of week 18 against the Vikings, proposed a change in this approach.
The suggestion is simple. The sowing of each conference would be determined by the file, regardless of the possibility of winning its division.
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The champions of the division would always enter.
Despite the legitimate reproaches concerning the equity of the current approach, there has never been a real feeling that the teams will support a change in the rule. In the current state of things, each team has a chance in four each year to organize an eliminatory match.
Of course, given that the conference has sixteen teams and four teams landing with the first four heads, there is still a chance of 25% each year to be one of the teams that will welcome a eliminatory match.
However, it will take a lot of work for Lions to get at least 23 other teams to agree. The league generally considers that there should be an additional meaning to win a division. Guarantee a home game provides it.