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Originally Posted by Mr. Marlin
It's your game, you can play it your way. That is the beauty of OOTP. But this is just my $.02. What appealed to me about baseball in the beginning was that it was a true meritocracy. If you win your league in the regular season you went to the championship. Having the best record in the regular season was all that mattered. That means the regular season matters. In the NBA & NHL, almost a third of all the teams get in the playoffs. The regular season does not means as much. And with many small divisions a bad team can win a bad division as cmaug pointed out. I prefer two leagues with one division each. Every regular season win is meaningful then and if makes you watch the scoreboard every single game.
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Although, on the flip side of that, if only one team from each league makes it you could end up with playoff races that are over by June. I find the sweet spot in the middle somewhere and liked the old 3 division winners + 1 Wild Card. That's about 25% of the league that makes the playoffs which is way better than 50%. To each his own though for sure.