Thread: Playoff Format
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Old 08-26-2014, 10:27 PM   #4
BKL
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Originally Posted by sprague View Post
just my 2 cents
but I never liked 2 division winners playing. A team can be second in its division with 110 wins. not make the playoffs- while an 80 win team from the other can win it all

My suggestion. Add 1 wildcard.
Set playoff for seeding, so the wildcard plays the lowest div winner in a best of 3.
Top team gets a buy. Winner plays the top team. Usually 2 div winners play for the champ anyway, but now the lower win div winner had to earn it.
I like this idea, and I used it before. It was fun. The problem is that OOTP has problems with tie-breakers when a wild-card winner is also tied for the division championship. That's one of the reason I switched to not having the wild-card. I'm not sure if this issue got resolved.
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