Seeding In The Division

Last week was the final week of the NFL regular season. This week is the first week of the NFL postseason. Why not come up with some comparison to the diva division with that?

Everything with these playoff games right now is based on seeding. Not the stuff you plant in the ground. If you know sports, you know what I mean. It is the position a team has in the tournament. Certain seeds get certain benefits. That is why some teams keep playing hard to the final game, even if they have a playoff spot locked up. They want a better seed or to protect their own seed. The top two seeds in each conference get a bye week and don't play during the first week. The top four get at least one guaranteed home game. The bottom two teams get the wildcard spots and the odds are against them. Better seeding helps.

How can you compare that to the diva division? No one talks in these terms when talking about the diva division. Despite that, my typical way of analyzing the diva division can somewhat translate to seeds.

1st Seed: Centerpiece
2nd Seed: Top Periphery Diva
3rd Seed: 2nd Top Periphery Diva
4th Seed: 3rd Top Periphery Diva

And so on, depending on how many stars the WWE is developing at a given time. While seeding in a regular sport is based on how well a team played and how many games they won, this kind of seeding is based on whom the WWE wants to be their stars, what kind of star they want them to be, and how they are pushing them. The centerpiece gets pushed in a manner that no other diva will get pushed, as long as that woman in the centerpiece spot does not flop. The top periphery diva will also be pushed better than other periphery divas. Lita was pushed better than the eye-candy periphery divas, like Stacy Keibler. AJ Lee is being pushed better than pretty much all the eye-candy periphery divas now, although this is a dark age. I think the comparison does somewhat work out.

You might be wondering, where does this leave credible jobbers? Consider them the sports teams that fail to make the postseason. That is not an insult to these women. As I said before, position within the diva division is not based on how well you are doing. It is based mainly on how well they want you to be and how well they are pushing you.

Personally, I don't like the comparison. I don't think it does a good job of explaining everything. It might illustrate some things, but not enough. Nevertheless, someone else may like it or be able to build something more out of it.