Division Winner Question

[elcowboi]

My friend and I were talking about the winner of each division and how the tie-breakers and so forth work. So here is my question: Can a team win the division if they win all the games in their divsion but lose all the other games?

My answer was no but he kept saying they could. Can someone help me out please?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

 

[Future]

if everybody else is 6-10 or worse then yea

 

[Hostile]

My friend and I were talking about the winner of each division and how the tie-breakers and so forth work. So here is my question: Can a team win the division if they win all the games in their divsion but lose all the other games?

My answer was no but he kept saying they could. Can someone help me out please?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Highly unlikely. You'd be 6-10. The division winner still means best over all record.

 

[elcowboi]

Highly unlikely. You'd be 6-10. The division winner still means best over all record.

That's what I kept telling him that it still goes by the overall records. Thanx a bunch. I knew I should have bet him on this. LOL.

 

[Doomsday101]

That's what I kept telling him that it still goes by the overall records. Thanx a bunch. I knew I should have bet him on this. LOL.

Of course it is the best overall record only in a case of a tie do you go to division record if that is tied they go to conference record which is why I think the most critical games are of course the NFC East game but right behind that how you do in the conference matters in terms of tie breakers.

 

[Tricericon]

Of course it is the best overall record only in a case of a tie do you go to division record if that is tied they go to conference record which is why I think the most critical games are of course the NFC East game but right behind that how you do in the conference matters in terms of tie breakers.

The first tiebreaker is actually head-to-head. For example, if we were to sweep the Eagles, get swept by the Giants, and split with the Skins (3-3 total) and then Eagles swept both New York and Washington (4-2 total), and we finished with the same record, we would win the East.

That Chicago loss is looking nasty in the tiebreaker department if we can't take the division.

 

[Doomsday101]

The first tiebreaker is actually head-to-head. For example, if we were to sweep the Eagles, get swept by the Giants, and split with the Skins (3-3 total) and then Eagles swept both New York and Washington (4-2 total), and we finished with the same record, we would win the East.

That Chicago loss is looking nasty in the tiebreaker department if we can't take the division.

Of course head to head I guess I skipped that. My mistake

 

[sonnyboy]

Unlikely, but certainly plausible. I mean the math works.

You go 6-0 in the division and the other three teams split there remaining division game. Well right there they all 2-4 and well on thier way to losing records.

No they all go no better than 4-6 in their 10 non division games.u

You have four 6-10 teams including a 6-10 division winner. That's fugly!


I know there have been 8-8 division winners, but I don't think there has ever been a division winner with a losing record.