Division Champ Tie Breaker

by go4broncos on Nov 16, 2009 5:22 PM MST Comment 6 comments

We need to win this game to keep the tiebreaker for the end of the season. Here's how it plays out:

1. If we don't win (and we still manage a tie), it would come to division games, which I'm assuming we'll both win all our other division games or if we lost one, they'd lose one thus evening it out so it would fall to the next tie breaker.

1. At this point, it will come down to wins between common teams played. So far, We've lost to the same teams and won against the same teams. The difference is the Chargers have beaten the Eagles and the Giants and have yet to play the Browns, Cowboys, Bengals and Redskins. We've beaten the Bengals, Browns, Cowboys, lost to the Redskins, and have yet to play the Eagles and the Giants. In this scenario we'd have to rely on the Chargers loosing to one of those teams, preferably an AFC team (this point right here is why we need to win this game in order to control our own destiny, otherwise, it's up to the Chargers to win or lose).

2. Still a tie? Here's where the loss to an AFC team I mentioned before would come into play and we'd win the tie breaker, however. If they manage to win our common AFC games and their one loss to tie things back up came from an NFC team, it would go to conference play which will compare our New England/Indianapolis games vs. their Miami/Tennessee games. We've each won one of those so it will come down to our Indianapolis vs. their Tennessee (I don't like those odds).

3. If we manage to tie this scenario as well, then it will fall to strength of victory. I'm not exactly sure what this means. Can someone fill me in?

4. The next tie breaker is strength of schedule. I think I can confidently say we'd win this tie breaker because the teams we don't have in common are the Patriots/Colts vs their Titans/Dolphins.

This game is a MUST win.

GO BRONCOS!!

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Strength of victory

It’s the same as strength of schedule, except only for games that were won

by Timimus on Nov 16, 2009 6:08 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

That is strength of chedule of teams we beat vs. teams they beat. So would probably come down to IND+NE records vs. MIA+TEN records. Advantage us!

by Timimus on Nov 16, 2009 6:10 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, i actually made a post about this same topic a few hours ago. This is what i said.

I want to point out that if the bolts beat us Sunday (I know, its impossible right?) then i believe that they will really be TWO games up on us b/c if we end up with the same record (like last year) they will liklly win the tiebreaker. Here are the tiebreaker steps in a division. Head-to-head (best won-lost-tied percentage in games between the clubs). After the head to head which would be tied.
1. Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the division.
2. Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games.
3. Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
4.Strength of victory.
5.Strength of schedule.
6.Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
7.Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
8.Best net points in common games.
9.Best net points in all games.
10.Best net touchdowns in all games.
11. Coin toss
So we tie the head to head and assuming we beat KCX2 and Oak, we would be tied for division record. Then comes the possile killer….comon games record, Assuming SD beats WASH and Cleveland and loses to Cincy and Dallas, they would be 4-4. 5-3 if they beat Dallas. Now we currently are 3-3 with games with the Giants and Philly.We would need to win one of these if not both to go on to the next tiebreaker. That would be conference record. We are currently 3-2 with a game with Indy and assuming we lose (I know this seems impossible as well) we would be 3-3. SD is currently 1-2 but assuming they beat Tennessee and Cleveland and lose to Cincy they would tie us at 3-3. Now comes the Strength of Victory which is defines as the winning pecentage of teams you have beaten. I actually think we may win this one b/c we beat Cincy and NE and Dallas……….But i am getting WAYYYYY overboard with this but just remember that EVEN if we lose this game, then we can still catch SD in the 5th tiebreaker!!!!!

by Calibroncoboy on Nov 16, 2009 8:03 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

it has to come out perfectly for things to fall in place the way we’ve outlined them. Oh well. Rather the leave it up to all these tiebreakers that are giving us headaches, we should just win and that would solve all of our tiebreaker questions.

GO BRONCOS!!!

by go4broncos on Nov 17, 2009 12:09 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs