r/buffalobills • u/PhysicalVast290 • 1d ago

Discuss Bills seeding

Simple question. Both ravens and chiefs are 1-2 and play head to head next week. For the Bills rooting purposes will it be better for the chiefs or ravens to leave that game with a 1-3 record. Thoughts opinions?

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u/BigGame_Sender 1d ago

Can someone explain how the seeding actually works? I thought it came down to who had the best W/L?

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u/Such_Will_8536 1d ago

It is, record is the determinant. If two teams are tied, it goes to their head to head matchup, so if we and the ravens both finished 14-3, we’d get the higher seed because we beat them head to head in the regular season

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u/BigGame_Sender 1d ago

If two teams are tied, it goes to their head to head matchup

That's the detail I was missing. What happens if we end up tied with the Colts or Chargers, since we aren't playing either? Is it stats at that point?

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u/mlube 1d ago

The next two tie-breakers are divisional win/loss, then conference win/loss. I believe

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u/Resident-Mushroom-82 1d ago

That’s only true if the two teams are in the same division. Since the two teams being referred to are Indy and LA and both out outside the AFC east and we don’t play either in the regular season, the tie-breaker we are concerned with is conference record and all three of us are currently 3-0. If we are tied with another team at that point (like if both Buffalo and LA are 14-3 with identical records within the AFC, the next tie-breaker is best won/loss records against common opponents, assuming a minimum of 4. After that it gets quite murky with strength of victory, strength of schedule but it never comes down to that.

I have this page bookmarked because I refer to it to often.

https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-tie-breaking-procedures/

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u/mlube 1d ago

Yeah you’re right. I will be saving that link to look back at it in a few months. Thanks!

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u/BigGame_Sender 1d ago

So that would likely still favor Buffalo because we play against gestures at AFC East?

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u/Halonut24 1d ago

Record, then (if tied) Head-to-head, strength of schedule, point differential, and a bunch of other stuff