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Originally Posted by listopencil
I know an 18 game schedule is coming, but it's bringing along with it the death of division rivalries. Everybody has four teams per division now - six division games. Your division is only going to be a third of your record. You could go 12 and 6, lose every division game, and win your division. It's going to happen.
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I doubt one more game kills division rivalries. I do get your point about it watering down some, but winning the division is still the clearest/best path to the playoffs. If a team somehow gets swept by division opponents yet still wins the division that would almost be cool to see. Seems highly unlikely, though. Don't remember ever hearing of a team getting anywhere close to doing that.