Keeping perspective: standings after week 8

by patamunzo on Oct 27, 2008 9:50 AM EDT

Just to keep things in the right perspective, this is where the Bills stands after 8 weeks of NFL football, roughly half of the season. Source is the NFL.com standings page.

The Bills are on top of the AFC East (same record as NE but net points)
The Bills are the second team in the AFC, after the Titans
The Bills are the fifth team in the NFL, after Titans, Giants, Panthers and Redskins.
The Bills 3-2 in the last 5 games. Only 4 teams (Titans, Giants, Panthers and Redskins, again) have a better W-L ratio.
3 of the last 5 games for the Bills were away. Apart from the Titans, all the other top 5 teams already played at least 4 games at home (Carolina is on top with 5 home games out of 8).
The Bills are the only AFC team, together with the ubiquitous Titans, without home losses.

As a side note, remember that what really counts are the W, not the stats, as our unfriendly neighbours - the Patriots - know well.

Just another great fan opinion shared on the pages of BuffaloRumblings.com.

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The Bills are on top of the AFC East (same record as NE but net points)

Yes, but doesn’t division record come much sooner in tiebreakers than net points? New England is 1-1 in the AFC East; we’re 0-1. I consider the Patriots to be the leaders in the division.

Like the point about the home record (3-0). That’s something that can’t change, particularly this week.

by Brian Galliford on Oct 27, 2008 9:57 AM EDT reply actions

NFL put them first

I supposed it was due to the net points. I confess I don’t remember the damn tiebreaking procedure.

by patamunzo on Oct 27, 2008 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah either Division record or head to head comes first. We shouldn’t be too worried abou tiebreakers right now anyways. Let’s just be happy that we are in a virtual tie for first and that we have 5 chances within the division to improve on those tiebreakers.

by kaisertown on Oct 27, 2008 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions