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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
To be fair, divisions have only been around for 55 seasons (two-division leagues for 25 seasons and three-division leagues for 30 seasons). You can't really compare pre-1969 to post-1969 because the pre-1969 seasons never had the opportunity for an overall lower-placed team overall to qualify.
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Yep. An answer I'd like to know from him is who does he think deserves to be in the postseason? Only the best team in each league? Only division winners? Divison winners and one wild card? What's his preferred league structure? I think that's the only way for him to explain, in his mind, who is deserving.
Again, I don't like having 12 teams in the playoffs. But I don't think that means the 5th and 6th best teams in their respective leagues are not deserving if they've made the playoffs within the league's designed structure. Brad could clear up his thoughts on this quite easily. But instead, he has chosen to base his discussion around the ambiguous and provocative label of "deserving."