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kenyan_cheena · 02-09-2015, 07:19 PM

The solution is not rocket science, IMO. Just abolish the conferences, but keep the teams in their current divisions. Seed the top sixteen teams according to win-loss record. If this means that a division champion does not have home court advantage in the 1st round, that's tough. They should have won more games.

The league does not have an unbalanced schedule to the extent of that in baseball, even though the structure is identical (six 5-team divisions). I would actually tweak it a little bit to make it even more balanced, so that the split of games against western and eastern teams is almost 50/50. If it's a more balanced schedule, and the format I propose is used, then no one can complain that a deserving team has missed out on the playoffs.

I don't buy into this belief that the balance of power will eventually move back to the east. Maybe it will, but in the meantime, what is the use of letting undeserving teams from the middle of the eastern conference pack be allowed into the playoffs? It makes sense that if you have more quality teams in the playoffs, your playoff series will be a better one.

It's ridiculous that these woeful sub-.500 eastern conference teams, who currently play 52 of their 82 games AGAINST eastern conference opponents, are allowed into the playoffs at the expense of a +.500 western conference team that plays 52 of its 82 games AGAINST western conference opponents.

02-09-2015, 07:19 PM	#5
kenyan_cheena Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Posts: 9,037	The solution is not rocket science, IMO. Just abolish the conferences, but keep the teams in their current divisions. Seed the top sixteen teams according to win-loss record. If this means that a division champion does not have home court advantage in the 1st round, that's tough. They should have won more games. The league does not have an unbalanced schedule to the extent of that in baseball, even though the structure is identical (six 5-team divisions). I would actually tweak it a little bit to make it even more balanced, so that the split of games against western and eastern teams is almost 50/50. If it's a more balanced schedule, and the format I propose is used, then no one can complain that a deserving team has missed out on the playoffs. I don't buy into this belief that the balance of power will eventually move back to the east. Maybe it will, but in the meantime, what is the use of letting undeserving teams from the middle of the eastern conference pack be allowed into the playoffs? It makes sense that if you have more quality teams in the playoffs, your playoff series will be a better one. It's ridiculous that these woeful sub-.500 eastern conference teams, who currently play 52 of their 82 games AGAINST eastern conference opponents, are allowed into the playoffs at the expense of a +.500 western conference team that plays 52 of its 82 games AGAINST western conference opponents. Last edited by kenyan_cheena; 02-09-2015 at 07:26 PM.