Again, is your argument that the AFC East wasn't the BEST division? Because I won't quibble over that. All I've been doing is showing that Yam Bag's assertion that the AFC East was not only bad, but "historically bad" is total crap.I've only been using interdivisional games, so there's your discrepancy. Aside from not being any title contenders besides the '10 Jets (I'll give you '09 too - that team made it just as far and had two points better SRS and maybe even '04 if Brien makes a kick, they probably don't beat the Pats but who knows), there just haven't been many playoff teams at all. From 02-19 (the current alignment to the end of Brady), the AFCE only had six of 36 WC spots. Obviously, the Pats have a ton to do with that, but they don't account entirely for running 12 spots below expectation in an 18-year stretch.
And have you done this comparison with every division? Or just the AFCE and AFCN?