ccs007@ucdavis.UUCP (Cionex) (12/02/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR DEAD RAMS *** If, theoretically, the following NFC teams made the playoffs under the listed circumstances, who would play where? Does the team with the best record get to play the wild-card winner at home, unless they're from the same division, or what? Playoff Teams (theoretical...don't yell at me over something this trivial.) Chicago (14-2) New York Giants (11-5) San Francisco (11-5) Dallas (10-6) (Wild Card) Los Angeles (11-5) (Wild Card) O.k...Dallas would play at L.A., but where would the winner play? I'm curious... Gary Huckabay !ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccs007 "I have no way of knowing what forms of life you might have in that bag."
bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan) (12/03/85)
>Playoff Teams (theoretical...don't yell at me over something this trivial.) > >Chicago (14-2) >New York Giants (11-5) >San Francisco (11-5) >Dallas (10-6) (Wild Card) >Los Angeles (11-5) (Wild Card) > >O.k...Dallas would play at L.A., but where would the winner play? The wild card winner (Dallas/LA) would play in Chicago because the first place team with the best record (Chi) hosts the wild card team unless they are in the same division. In that case the first place team with the second best record hosts the wild card team. For the NY-SF game, the tie breaker rules would be used to determine who the home team is. Since they did not play each other this season the tie breaker would probably be best conference record. The conference championship game is hosted by the first place team with the best record. Note that a wild card team can never host a first place team in the playoffs even if the wild card has the better record. -- Bernie Dougan CONCURRENT Computer Corp (a Perkin-Elmer Company) Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road Orlando, Florida 32809 (305)850-1040 ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!bd
williams@vu-vlsi.UUCP ( Student) (12/04/85)
Gary Huckabay writes : > If, theoretically, the following NFC teams made the playoffs under the listed > circumstances, who would play where? Using your theoretical teams; Winner of the Dallas-LA wild card game would play @ Chicago The 49ers would play @ NY because the Giants have a better conference record. If the Bears win they play at home. If the Bears lose, the winner of the wildcard game plays away. > ..Does the team with the best record get > to play the wild-card winner at home, unless they're from the same division, > or what? yes. -rob schreiber- posted by -taw allegra!\ "Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales" !pyrnj!vu-vlsi!williams topaz!/
ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (12/04/85)
Normally, the wildcard winner plays the team with the best record (in your example, the Bears). Thus, Dallas/LA would be at Chicago. The case of NY v. the 49ers would depend on how they shaped up on the tiebreaker statistics (posted a couple of weeks by two nice people). At least, I think that's how it works....
borodkin@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (12/06/85)
For divisional playoffs, the two best divisional winners are
host teams; the wildcard winner and the other divisional winner
are road teams. A wild-card team cannot play a team in its own
division until the championship; this constraint usually
determines who plays where. If the wild-card team and the third
division champ ARE from the same division, the best team in the
conference (e.g. Bears) gets to host the wild-card.
Stephen L. Borodkin
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ARPA: borodkin@uiuc.arpafranka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) (12/11/85)
In article <140100002@uiucdcsb> borodkin@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes: >A wild-card team cannot play a team in its own >division until the championship; Not quite; if both wild card teams are from the same division, they do play each first. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108