MLB: The '1 Game Wild Card Playoff' - The Biggest Middle Finger in Western Civilization
Oct 1, 2018 19:16:59 GMT
Post by Terrapin Station on Oct 1, 2018 19:16:59 GMT
All sports should have teams split up into west and east--so that the eastern teams are usually playing eastern teams and the western teams are usually playing western teams, just to minimize travel and to maximize TV viewing for a team's fanbase. I'd make it so that each team only does two cross-country road trips per season, playing three series each road trip. (Less for NFL)
Get rid of all other structural divisions. Just east and west and that's it. All of this "division" stuff is nonsense. It made more sense when long-distance travel was harder. We don't need divisions any longer. This also avoids that you're playing the same four teams to death in baseball, which gets tiresome.
Playoffs for all sports are the top 8 (or however many is approximately half) teams in the east vs each other and the top 8 (or so) teams in the west vs each other, determined and seeded purely by winning percentages.
Except for the NFL which needs to keep the one and done format for practical reasons, make all playoffs best of five for the first two rounds, then best of seven for the remainder.
Get rid of all other structural divisions. Just east and west and that's it. All of this "division" stuff is nonsense. It made more sense when long-distance travel was harder. We don't need divisions any longer. This also avoids that you're playing the same four teams to death in baseball, which gets tiresome.
Playoffs for all sports are the top 8 (or however many is approximately half) teams in the east vs each other and the top 8 (or so) teams in the west vs each other, determined and seeded purely by winning percentages.
Except for the NFL which needs to keep the one and done format for practical reasons, make all playoffs best of five for the first two rounds, then best of seven for the remainder.