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Originally Posted by GirlySports
12 teams, the 4 division winners would get a bye and the other 8 would play a best of 5 but only 4 games played (I give the higher seed a 1-0 lead). Then it's 3 rounds of best of 7 the rest of the way (I may give the division winners a 1-0 lead in this round as well).
And I don't believe that teams get rusty after 5 days off, that's just an excuse for losers.
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It would be more like +10 days off. Otherwise you're taxing the advancing team too much since you're asking them to play 4 games for 4 days straight, or 4 games in 6 days. That's way to unfair.
I think bye's only work for football because it's only one game that's skipped and the team that played does get a week to recover.