Template talk:NFLBracket

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I started this template as a hack of Template:Round16, which is primarily used on articles related to the FIFA World Cup and the football (soccer) tournaments. I might modify it in the future so that there are separate parameters for the seed numbers. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 13:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I see that you did the seeds. I used them to resolve the confusion over the Divisional Playoff pairings. There are now conditionals for wild-card outcomes, which make the lines between them and the Divisional games dotted unless one of the visiting team seeds is filled in for that conference, in which case they solidify. The same conditions trigger a note explaining how this all works, which automagically disappears when at least one Divisional round visiting seed is filled in for each conference. I also expanded several fields, adding room to fill vertically instead of forcing game boxes to grow just because the date/stadium information went to two lines. I also removed some things taking up space, after moving the round descriptions into the body of the bracket.The Monster 14:29, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

If you are going to use this on the Arena Football League articles, you might want to rename it. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Changing the existing references to NFLBracket would be a lot of work, and the name is appropriate because the template is primarily for the NFL. It happens to work for now because the AFL has changed to an NFL-style playoff format. The comment in the AFL page clarifies that it works OK with the AFL. Were we talking about the name by which casual users access the information, I'd agree that it needed to be renamed, but this is an under-the-hood bit, so it's probably not worth the effort. The Monster 03:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re-seeding information too complicated

Is it just me or does the note about re-seeding seem a lot more complicated than it needs to be?

The rule in the NFL is quite simple. The lowest-ranked team remaining always plays against the highest-ranked team remaining, and the highest-ranked team in a game gets to play at home.

Plus, I really don't like the term "re-seeding." Teams keep the seed they had since the beginning of the playoffs. The uncertainty in who plays in which divisional game (and where) stems only from not knowing which teams will be through to that round.62.30.213.185 (talk) 15:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)