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Originally Posted by GGG
How about a tournament of losers for the 8th playoff spot that also decides draft position. so on each side you would have 8 play 16 7 play 15 etc. The losers of those games would get the top 8 draft picks by equal weighted lottery. Then you continue the playdown until you have 1 team in each conference and they get the eigth seed in the playoffs. Just single elimination with home games for the better team.
There is incentive for ownership to not finish in the bottom 4 because you get 1 home playoff game. And fans are interested because all you need is to win 3 games and you make the playoffs.
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was just about to suggest this. I think this is about as close to a perfect solution as you can get, the only possible downside is having a really terrible bottom feeder get into the playoffs and get crushed by the #1 seed. but that always happens to at least a couple of series anyways.
I'm told this is how they do it in college basketball or something, but it would make things exciting for everyone up to the very end. and the bad teams would still get the draft picks they need.