I know the first thing some may think is "Well [favorite team]'s differential vs [opponent] would have been higher if we didn't put the backups in on the last drive!" and I totally understand that. However, that factor affects every team, and it will be mostly evened out over the course of the season. Additionally, getting into how to compare subbing out everyone on the starting 11, to just subbing the quarterback, or taking out the full time starters but keeping in the rotation players who normally play half the time is incredibly fraught. Lastly, as fair or unfair as it is, currently the committee gets into the nitty gritty of comparing how big wins are and how close loses are, in determining their rankings