Too many home teams winning lately

[Brees#1]

Before 2013 we had road teams winning often in divisional rounds and championship games.
05-Pittsburgh wins in Cincinatti, Indy, and Denver
05-Carolina wins in NY and Chicago

06-Indy wins in Baltimore and NE wins in San Diego in the same week

07-SD wins in Indy
07-NY wins in TB, Dallas, and Green Bay

08-Baltimore wins in Miami, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh
08-Arizona wins in Carolina. Philadelphia wins in Minnesota and NY.

09-NY wins in Cincinatti and SD.

10-NY wins in Indy and NE.
10-GB wins in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago.

11-NY wins in GB and SF.

12-Baltimore wins in Denver and NE.
12-SF wins in Atlanta.

13-SF wins in GB and Carolina

14-Indy wins in Denver

Notice the last two years and this year no top seed has been knocked off when it was a annual occurrence before with one conference or both other than 09 since 04?

What's changing? Awareness? Or has the pressure been put back on the road teams again because of Seattle and NE's recent home dominance?

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Last week all 4 home teams lost

 

[TDs3nOut]

There ought to be a law?

 

[Brees#1]

Last week all 4 home teams lost

Did you read the first sentence?

 

[Manster7588]

Did you read the first sentence?

Did you stop to think that maybe, just maybe the fact that the 5th and 6th seeds were playing the 1st and 2nd seeds might have something to do with this.

 

[Brees#1]

Did you stop to think that maybe, just maybe the fact that the 5th and 6th seeds were playing the 1st and 2nd seeds might have something to do with this.

That didn't stop them in the past.

From 05-13
13 teams out of 36 teams played in the conference title games that were seeds 4,5, and 6.

The 1 seed has lost to the 6 seed in that timeframe 5 times
The 1 seed has lost to the 5 seed in that timeframe 1 time
The 2 seed has lost to the 5 seed that timeframe 3 times
The 1 seed has lost to the 4 seed in that timeframe 3 times
The 2 seed has lost to the 4 seed in that timeframe 1 time

 

[obxyankeefan]

27-20
26-20 in overtime
31-24
23-13

We just had 3 great games and almost an unbelievable comeback in the other. Granted the home team won all four, but I would much rather watch this weekends games than what we use to get in the playoffs in the 80s.

 

[Manster7588]

That didn't stop them in the past.

From 05-13
13 teams out of 36 teams played in the conference title games that were seeds 4,5, and 6.

The 1 seed has lost to the 6 seed in that timeframe 5 times
The 1 seed has lost to the 5 seed in that timeframe 1 time
The 2 seed has lost to the 5 seed that timeframe 3 times
The 1 seed has lost to the 4 seed in that timeframe 3 times
The 2 seed has lost to the 4 seed in that timeframe 1 time

This is the very first time all road teama won the wild card games = never in history of the NFL playoffs did both all top seeds match up against the the 4 lowest seeds.
You can complain and argue all night but you'll still be wrong

 

[boogiewithstu2007]

It's still HELLA tough winning it all being a bottom seed though .... How many teams have won it all being a 6 seed? Isn't it just 2 teams, Pitt and New York ? correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[Duffman]

It's still HELLA tough winning it all being a bottom seed though .... How many teams have won it all being a 6 seed? Isn't it just 2 teams, Pitt and New York ? correct me if I'm wrong...

It's actually just GB and Pitt.

 

[boogiewithstu2007]

It's actually just GB and Pitt.

Ah ok ... thanks

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

Before 2013 we had road teams winning often in divisional rounds and championship games.
05-Pittsburgh wins in Cincinatti, Indy, and Denver
05-Carolina wins in NY and Chicago

06-Indy wins in Baltimore and NE wins in San Diego in the same week

07-SD wins in Indy
07-NY wins in TB, Dallas, and Green Bay

08-Baltimore wins in Miami, Tennessee, and Pittsburgh
08-Arizona wins in Carolina. Philadelphia wins in Minnesota and NY.

09-NY wins in Cincinatti and SD.

10-NY wins in Indy and NE.
10-GB wins in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago.

11-NY wins in GB and SF.

12-Baltimore wins in Denver and NE.
12-SF wins in Atlanta.

13-SF wins in GB and Carolina

14-Indy wins in Denver

Notice the last two years and this year no top seed has been knocked off when it was a annual occurrence before with one conference or both other than 09 since 04?

What's changing? Awareness? Or has the pressure been put back on the road teams again because of Seattle and NE's recent home dominance?

oh dude just shut the **** up. I somehow think in 1% of my mind that the NFL reads shit like this and this is why we play 1 game in London. The last thing we need is the Super Bowl in Japan or some shit. FUCK, I just did it didn't I? The Super Bowl will be played in Japan. Brees, I hope you get colon cancer. Yep, not even joking... CANCER. Have lost an aunt and grandpa to cancer, still wish you get it.

 

[bksballer89]

Wow talk about taking a msg board too seriously

 

[Manster7588]

That didn't stop them in the past.

From 05-13
13 teams out of 36 teams played in the conference title games that were seeds 4,5, and 6.

The 1 seed has lost to the 6 seed in that timeframe 5 times

Wrong

2005, 2008, and 2010 = 3 not 5.
Not sure where you learned math.

 

[Brees#1]

oh dude just shut the **** up. I somehow think in 1% of my mind that the NFL reads shit like this and this is why we play 1 game in London. The last thing we need is the Super Bowl in Japan or some shit. FUCK, I just did it didn't I? The Super Bowl will be played in Japan. Brees, I hope you get colon cancer. Yep, not even joking... CANCER. Have lost an aunt and grandpa to cancer, still wish you get it.

fuck you. Theres no cancer deaths in my family except lung.

 

[Brees#1]

Wrong

2005, 2008, and 2010 = 3 not 5.
Not sure where you learned math.

Actually you are WRONG

05 Indy
08 Tennessee and NYG
11 NE and Atlanta

 

[Manster7588]

Actually you are WRONG

05 Indy
08 Tennessee and NYG
11 NE and Atlanta

I will apologize, I was on my phone and only saw the AFC playoffs.
Now think of it this way, that's 5 out of 20, not great odds in the 6th seed favor. In addition during the same time span five 6 seeds have lost to the 1st seed, so for every win the 6 seed has they have loss to equal it out.
The 1 seed is usually better than the 6 so odds are just like this year the 1 will win. If the other 6 ten 6 seeds would have beaten the 3 seed during the time span most likely they would have lost to the 1.

 

[TDs3nOut]

What's changing? Awareness? Or has the pressure been put back on the road teams again because of Seattle and NE's recent home dominance?

It is kind of interesting that there is a pretty strong downward trend in the number of road wins in the divisional and championship rounds. Using the information you provided in the OP, the sequence of the number of those road wins from '05-'14 is 5, 4, 6, 5, 2, 5, 2, 3, 2, 1.

No idea what is driving it or whether it is mere coincidence.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

fuck you. Theres no cancer deaths in my family except lung.

I'll have a pack of cigarettes in their honor then.

 

[Cedrique]

oh dude just shut the **** up. I somehow think in 1% of my mind that the NFL reads shit like this and this is why we play 1 game in London. The last thing we need is the Super Bowl in Japan or some shit. FUCK, I just did it didn't I? The Super Bowl will be played in Japan. Brees, I hope you get colon cancer. Yep, not even joking... CANCER. Have lost an aunt and grandpa to cancer, still wish you get it.

Thank you. I just heard the 2021 Hello Kitty Superbowl will be held in Tokyo, Japan and unlike you , I could not be more excited. Since I'm just watching it on tv and not going to see it live, I don't care where they play it. It will be held in a stadium with 150,000 fans, all with cameras. Siderine reporters will be scooting around on Segways, and I can't wait to see what kind of trouble the players get into in the two weeks leading up to the game. In fact, I'm almost giddy thinking about watching some skinny 5 foot asian guys trying to throw a football through a tire to win 400,000 Yen (which is really just a few hundred bucks) in between quarters.
The thing about hoping the guy gets cancer was sick though. I don't think I have the power to reverse it but I hope he also gets alzheimers so at least some of the days he will forget that he has cancer. Those will be good days.......