According to ESPN's playoff machine, if the following scenario occurs:
Tampa Bay beats Green Bay
Detroit beats Chicago
Green Bay beats Detroit
It says Green Bay wins the division based on record against common opponents.
How? Their common opponents are NFC South & AFC East. This is how I would expect things to work:
Tie-breakers
1 H2H -> Split
2 Division record -> Both 5-1
3 Common opponents -> Both 9-3 (Green Bay losing to BUF, TB, NO. Detroit losing to NE, BUF, CAR).
4 Conference record -> Detroit 11-3 (losing to Arizona, CAR, GB), Green Bay 10-4 (losing to SEA, Det, NO, TB).
Where am I off in my logic? How does Green Bay have the common opponent tiebreaker in this scenario?
Tampa Bay beats Green Bay
Detroit beats Chicago
Green Bay beats Detroit
It says Green Bay wins the division based on record against common opponents.
How? Their common opponents are NFC South & AFC East. This is how I would expect things to work:
Tie-breakers
1 H2H -> Split
2 Division record -> Both 5-1
3 Common opponents -> Both 9-3 (Green Bay losing to BUF, TB, NO. Detroit losing to NE, BUF, CAR).
4 Conference record -> Detroit 11-3 (losing to Arizona, CAR, GB), Green Bay 10-4 (losing to SEA, Det, NO, TB).
Where am I off in my logic? How does Green Bay have the common opponent tiebreaker in this scenario?
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