NEW YORK - NFL rule makers will decide this spring whether to change the NFL's sudden-death overtime format, two members of the league's competition committee said.

The panel, which makes recommendations on rules to owners, plans to review the league's method of breaking ties, said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome and Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Rich McKay, who are on the eight-member committee.

The league has used sudden death, where the first team to score in a 15-minute overtime period wins, during the regular season since 1974.

Before this season, winners of the overtime coin toss won 51 percent of the time. Since the 2000 season, however, coin-toss winners have won 60 percent of the time.

"We only make changes in reacting to trends, and this is a trend we may have to respond to," McKay said. "If this requires change, it will probably be of the tweaking nature."