NFL could change overtime format for playoffs

• Gblock

  thavoice wrote: did a QUICK search. These numbers are 1973-2003
  
  **365 OT games in NFL
  **52% team won toss won the game
  **43% team lost toss and won game
  **5% games end tie
  **72% of the games BOTH teams had at least one possession
  
  *********28% team won toss and scored on the first drive!
  
  There is DEF a misconcepton....too many believe you win the coin toss...and you win the game without the other team touching the ball

  well if you are the coach i bet that you take the ball 100percent of the time barring some bizzare type of weather.
• thavoice

  ^^Unless your marty morningwhig.....
  Oh hell yeah you take the ball in you win the toss.........
  
  but the misconception of the team winning the toss wins on the first drive most of the time
• Glory Days

  

  thavoice wrote: did a QUICK search. These numbers are 1973-2003
  
  **365 OT games in NFL
  **52% team won toss won the game
  **43% team lost toss and won game
  **5% games end tie
  **72% of the games BOTH teams had at least one possession
  
  *********28% team won toss and scored on the first drive!
  
  There is DEF a misconcepton....too many believe you win the coin toss...and you win the game without the other team touching the ball

  thanks for posting that. this has come up a million times on here so i didnt feel like posting it again haha.
• thavoice

  I should just bookmard the damn page because im on a few sites and people always bring it up. I had one page I had found that had the stats through the 2008-9 season but i just did a very quick search and found this one.
  
  still..I would like to see a TWEAK in the system....both teams get at least one possession. I dont know if i like the whole have to score six points thing. Just makes ure each team is assured of one possession.
  
  Youll never see it go like HS or college. They may be fun to see alot of scoring...but it really is a joke to the game of football. I think in OT ya should play as close to the normal rules as possible with the actual on the field stuff. Taking away the punts, KO's, decisions to go for it......all are taken away in the HS and college game.
• Footwedge

  thavoice wrote: did a QUICK search. These numbers are 1973-2003
  
  **365 OT games in NFL
  **52% team won toss won the game
  **43% team lost toss and won game
  **5% games end tie
  **72% of the games BOTH teams had at least one possession
  
  *********28% team won toss and scored on the first drive!
  
  There is DEF a misconcepton....too many believe you win the coin toss...and you win the game without the other team touching the ball

  52% versus 43% is a sigificant discrepancy in my book. The rule needs to be changed.
• thavoice

  ^^So how are you going to assure it will be 50/50 on anything you ever do?
  The K E Y number here is this......28% of the time the team wins the toss and scores without the other team even touching the ball.
  
  
  No system put into place will have a 50/50 chance of a team winning.
  
  
  I wonder what the percentage of MLB extra innings games to go the home team becuase they have the last at bat?
  
  IN the college or HS game...I wonder what percentage of teams who get the ball SECOND if the OT win the actual game? I bet the number is pretty damned close to that of the NFL OT.
• Footwedge

  thavoice wrote: ^^So how are you going to assure it will be 50/50 on anything you ever do?
  The K E Y number here is this......28% of the time the team wins the toss and scores without the other team even touching the ball.

  
  
  I offered up a suggestion above whereby a simple coin flip would not give an edge. Would the outcome be 50-50? Dunno. The point is...the winner of the flip has won 26% more often that the loser of the coin toss.
  

  No system put into place will have a 50/50 chance of a team winning.

  No...but my suggestion and others' suggestion would result in games being a lot closer to 50-50...and as a result, be a lot fairer.
  
  

  I wonder what the percentage of MLB extra innings games to go the home team becuase they have the last at bat?

  
  
  Not a good analogy in my opinion. Baseball strategy throughout the game is with the understanding that if the game is tied, the home team will have the afvantage. In football, there is no such advantage. The coin flip will give the "winner" of the call a 26% better chance of winning. This ties into the baseball adage...you play to get ahead on the road, and you play to tie at home.
  

  IN the college or HS game...I wonder what percentage of teams who get the ball SECOND if the OT win the actual game? I bet the number is pretty damned close to that of the NFL OT.

  Very well could be. I think the OT rules in college should be changed as well. Their set up sucks too.