crayonz, i normally don't post i just get on to pick up and see if there is any information about the bills but you got me so worked up i had to make a post, and please reply to me personally if you would and answer my questions.
1) how do you justify this when the afc had the better record vs. the nfc?
2) how do you not consider the nfc teams beating up on washington, tampa, atlanta, THE LIONS, THE LIONS, THE GOD DA**ED LIONS!!!!, the vikings, and even the giants (yea i'll put the giants in this bc the way they lost to tennesee among other teams just makes them bad) any different than the good afc teams beating up on the bad afc teams? I can't think of two bad afc teams besides cleveland, oakland, and maybe texas.
3) this will take me forever but i'll do it, and it just goes to prove number 1 a little more
Buffalo: .438
Miami: .375
New england: .750
NYJ: .625
Baltimore: .812
Cincy: .500
Pitt: .500
Cleveland: .250
Houton: .375
Indy: .750
Jax: .500
Tenn: .500
Denver: .562
KC: .562
Oak: .125
SD: .875
AVERAGE: .531
Philly: .625
Dallas: .562
NYG: .500
Wash: .312
Chic: .812
GB: .500
Minn. .375
Detroit: .188
NO: .625
Carolina: .500
ATL: .438
TB: .250
Seattle: .562
St. Louis: .500
San Fran: .438
Arizona: .312
AVERAGE: .468
Now how does the average winning percentage in the afc obliterate that of the nfc? Because heads up the afc dominated the nfc.
Now i'll give credability to your argument that the afc dominant teams (sd, indy, balt, etc.) get a lot of wins against lower teams in that division and it improves their records. that is because the elite teams in the afc are good enough to make the decent teams look badly. it is fairly impossible to argue seeing as the afc has a higher winning percentage. And because I know you'll say "they're winning percentage is better becasue they play bad teams" i'll go into this as well since you coudln't understand the numbers that jibs shot your way.
if there were no non conference games the average winning percentage for each conference would be .500 because every game played needs a winner and a loser. Lets make up a pretend league it has four teams. team A and team B in the afc and team C and team D in the nfc. They play a ten game schedule and in the AFC team A goes 10-0 and team B goes 0-10. In the NFC team C goes 5-5 as does team D. This makes the afc's winning percentage .500 (10-10) and the nfc's winning percentage .500 (10-10). Now let me explain to you how they can become different.
The next season they decide to have some crossover games. 4 to be exact. In the AFC team A goes 13-1 and team B goes 3-11. This means that combined they went 6-2 vs. the NFC. In the NFC team C goes 6-8 as does team D. this makes the winning percentage for the AFC .571 (16-12). The winning percentage of the NFC is .428 (12-16) Now you could say that the afc is the lesser conference here because team A beat the bag out of team B but their winning percentage is better because even team B won against the other conference. Even though the NFC's records were more equal it does not mean that they are better, it means they are equally worse than the afc.
I don't see how you could possibly read this and have it not make sense. And to many of you others who've also replied, thanks for putting things so clearly, although crayonz did not understand the numbers i certainly did.