How are the wild card teams selected?

Answer 1

The four divisions in each conference.6 teams from each conference makes the playoffs the four division winners get playoff spots.then the 2 best teams not including the division winners in the whole conference get wildcard spots.The 2 best teams in each conference get a week off in the playoffs and a automatic home game, while the overall best team in the conference gets all their games at home not including the Super Bowl. Unless the Super Bowl is in their stadium, which is possible to happen.

Match-ups are based on records.Wild card Round: Team with 6th best VS Team with 3rd best record Team with 5th best VS team with 4th best record 1st best record and 2nd best record get week off.

Divisional Round: Team with lowest record faces Team with best record, Team with 2nd best record faces the other.

Championship: 2 Teams that win divisional round best record team gets Home Field Advantage if team without home field losses in the previous round, teams that win advance to the Super Bowl.

Answer 2

Generally, the division winner with the best overall record plays the wildcard team. However, if the wildcard team and the team with the best overall record come from the same division, then the wildcard team will play the division winner with the second best overall record and the division winner with the best overall record will play the division winner with the worst overall record.

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This must not apply to the wildcard round, however, because the Cowboys (NFC East Winner - #3 Seed) and Eagles (wildcard team - #6 Seed) are playing in the wildcard round.

Answer 3

Each conference has six teams that make the playoffs, the four division winners and two wild card teams. The division winners are seeded 1 through 4 based on regular season record and the two wild card teams are seeded 5 and 6 based on regular season record. The two division winners with the best regular season record (seeds 1 and 2) get the first week off while the other four teams must play. The division winner that is seeded 3rd plays the wild card team that is seeded 6th and the division winner that is seeded 4th plays the wild card team that is seeded 5th. The following week the number 1 seed team will play the lowest seed team that won the previous week and the number 2 seed will play the other team that won the previous week.

Answer 4

There are four divisions in each conference of the NFL and each division winner automatically qualifies for the playoffs. There are two other teams selected for the playoffs that did not win their division and these teams are known as 'wild card' teams. The wild card teams are the two teams in each conference that had the best regular season record of those teams that did not win their division.

Answer 5

The NFL uses an eight-year scheduling formula that guarantees that every team will play at every other team's stadium at least once every four years.

In a 16-game season, a schedule breaks down as follows:

• 2 games against each divisional opponent -- one home, one away. Total of 6 games.
• 4 games against every team in another division within the conference, on a three-year rotation. Total of 4 games. When the rotation comes around again, the home teams will be the visiting teams and vice versa.
• 4 games against every team in another division in the opposing conference, on a four-year rotation. Total of 4 games. Again, when the rotation comes around again, the home teams will be the visiting teams and vice versa.
• 1 game against the teams in the non-rotation divisions within the same conference who finished in the same position the previous season. (In other words, if Team A finished in first place in its division last year, they would play whatever division was in rotation that year, plus the teams who placed first in the two other non-rotation divisions in the previous year.) Total of 2 games. The league decides who will be the home and away teams for these contests.

Answer 6

I am assuming you are referring to the National Football League playoffs. There are four divisions within each conference. The team that wins its division is in the playoffs automatically. Of the remaining teams in each conference, the two with the best records are also in the playoffs as wild card teams. (There are various tiebreaker rules.) Of the division winning teams, the two teams with the best records in each conference get a bye, and the remaining two division leaders each play a wild card team in the first round of playoffs.

Answer 7

The two teams in each conference with the best record (excluding division champions) earn playoff berths as wildcard teams.