Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
I don't follow football but isn't the entire premise of the NFL stuff that you only play each team once though, and there're only a handful of games, and then the playoffs are just one game and not a series in the first place? So it's a very different style of sport, where in one system it's about trying to capture every single game and in the other its about trying to accumulate a more significant overall advantage. Surely that would impact the way that teams trained, gameplanned, etc; if you went into fewer games but had a week between each one and playoffs were single elimination, the way NBA teams plan and train and coach would be totally different, right?
I could be totally off in that evaluation though, do teams play series in the NFL? I don't know. Total admission of ignorance here; the sum total of my NFL knowledge is that Tom Brady wins a lot, Drew Brees is apparently very accurate (and just retired?), Marshawn Lynch exists, and Patrick Mahomes is Jesus according to some.