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From: bd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: I need some help...
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 09:04:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 09:04:14 1985
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>Playoff Teams (theoretical...don't yell at me over something this trivial.)
>
>Chicago (14-2)
>New York Giants (11-5)
>San Francisco (11-5)
>Dallas (10-6) (Wild Card)
>Los Angeles (11-5) (Wild Card)
>
>O.k...Dallas would play at L.A., but where would the winner play?

The wild card winner (Dallas/LA) would play in Chicago because the first
place team with the best record (Chi) hosts the wild card team unless
they are in the same division.  In that case the first place team with the
second best record hosts the wild card team.  For the NY-SF game, the
tie breaker rules would be used to determine who the home team is.  Since
they did not play each other this season the tie breaker would probably
be best conference record.  The conference championship game is hosted
by the first place team with the best record.  Note that a wild card team
can never host a first place team in the playoffs even if the wild card
has the better record.
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     Bernie Dougan
     CONCURRENT Computer Corp (a Perkin-Elmer Company)
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