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Old 02-28-2020, 12:33 PM   #33
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More playoff teams means the last weeks of the season will be worse and more awkward. For top teams, the end of the regular season would become the pre-season for the playoffs, where winning is secondary and conditioning is more important.

Just look at all the sports format with qualifying rounds and later elimination rounds and you'll see the same. To make the qualifying rounds more exciting, you need fewer qualifying spots. NBA teams has demonstrated how top teams don't care about the regular season much, and more mediocre teams fighting for the last few spots have not generated exciting games, because they are mediocre teams.
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