Just Jack Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I was curious about this so decided to do a little research... 2002 - 1 out of 4 (NFC) 2003 - 1 out of 4 (AFC) 2004 - 3 out of 4 (1 AFC, 2 NFC) 2005 - 3 out of 4 (1 AFC, 2 NFC) 2006 - 0 out of 4 2007 - 2 out of 4 (1 AFC, 1 NFC) 2008 - 2 out of 4 (1 AFC, 1 NFC) 2009 - 2 out of 4 (2 AFC) 2010 - 3 out of 4 (2 AFC, 1 NFC) So basically, 47.2% overall. 44.4% for the NFC, 50% for the AFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 You probably could have cleaned house in Vegas by betting that the Seahawks would be the only higher seed to advance this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talley56 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) A lot of those teams that won road games had better records than the home team they played, such as this year. This season every road team basically had a better record than the team they played (the only exception was Green Bay and Philly had the same record but since Green Bay beat them during the regular season they technically had the better record). Seems like since the re-alignment there have been a lot of seasons with really strong and really weak divisions in the same conference. Edited January 10, 2011 by Talley56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Seems like since the re-alignment there have been a lot of seasons with really strong and really weak divisions in the same conference. No question and it will certainly continue. A four team division simply isn't deep enough to avoid having weak sister divisions and hence, medicore teams in the playoffs. I think the solution is to go back to 3 divisions per conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Always liked this piece from Simmons on the decline of home field advantage. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/partone/081121 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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