Playoff Payoff - Brian

We need to restructure the playoff systems for the 3 major sports (sorry, but I'm not including the NHL because I don't know enough about it).

With the NFL, MLB and NBA, the the division winners get automatic spots and the remaining spots are filled with wild-card teams. Doesn't seem like a problem? Well let's do a scenario...

Team A finished 11-5
Team B finished 9-7

Who should make the playoffs? Team A, right? But...Team B won its division and automatically make it, while Team A lost a tie breaker for the last wild-card spot. That just doesn't make sense to me. This works the exact same with the MLB and NBA, and scenarios like this happen almost every year. People don't think this is a problem until it happens to their team, and when it does, it is one of the most frustrating things to deal with as a fan.

Easy fix, the teams with the best records make the playoffs...period.