Planting the NFL Seed

Division winners get home playoff games--even when their records don't stack up. On this Fix it Friday episode of After the Comma, we did into the punctuation that keeps the NFL playoff system intact despite its flaws. Why are geography and tradition rewarded over performance? And what fallacies allow the league to defend it every year? We break down the logic behind division-based seeding, expose where it falls apart, and explore whether reseeding by record would actually fix the problem--or break something else. Because when an elite team is forced on the road while a weaker division champ hosts, the sentence isn't over. It'sjust the comma.