With the final weeks of the regular NFL season upon us, you’ve probably been hearing one of my favorite sports phenomena popping up- Playoff Math. What’s Playoff Math you ask? Playoff Math is my term for the convoluted calculations die-hard fans start making to see if their team can still make the post-season. As a Bucs fan, I gave up worrying about Playoff Math back in September of this year. But last night Bronco fans were running the kind of complex mathematical scenarios usually reserved for keeping space stations in orbit.
Playoff Math usually goes something like this. If my team wins, that one loses, that other one loses, and Jupiter aligns with Uranus, we can squeak out a wild-card spot. It’s hard to follow, but when your team exists like Schrodinger’s Cat in the third quarter it matters.
Well, that’s not true. I realized last night who doesn’t care at all about Playoff Math. Winners.
See, if you’re the top team in your division and clenched your playoff spot back 3 weeks ago, you don’t care one bit about Playoff Math. You’re not stressing about anything aligning with Uranus- you’re just winning.
And that’s a powerful lesson. If you find that all too often your success depends on others, you’re not really winning. If you’re hoping for someone else to lose to keep you in the game, you’re not really winning.
Because if you’ve been winning all season- you don’t worry about Playoff Math.
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