Here's the one that should be a no-brainer. The Competition has come up with a new system of tiebreakers that it wants to push for the 2002 season. The new category places a reward on who a team beats instead of who they play. Strength of Victory calculates the winning percentage of the teams beaten by a team. What's nice about the proposal being pushed by the Competition Committee is that it makes it the fifth most important tie-breaker.
Strength of schedule is sixth.
Shouldn't a team be rewarded more for whom it beats as opposed to whom it plays. Just because a team stumbles into an easy schedule it shouldn't be able to use that easy schedule as a way to break ties for seedings. Let's say, for example, the Saints and Rams are deadlocked for the division with 10-6 records as they were last year. Let's say that they split their regular-season series, have the same record in division play and the same record in common games. Under the format that will run out this year, the next tie-breaker is the ridiculous net points in division games followed by the net points in all games.