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Originally Posted by Dragomir
Then the next logical step is tiebreakers, regulation wins or goal differential. I agree this way isn’t 100% honourable either but it has more integrity than a 24 team playoff.
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All still based on unbalanced and uneven schedules.
The eventual cup winner will be 100% legit IMO. Several teams will probably have valid reasons to be butthurt about how it plays out, though.
There are a lot of other ways to design this with more integrity and competitive purity, but they are all more complicated, which makes it harder to present to the average fan, and adds more wrinkles to risk mitigation. This is a reasonable enough balance of all things considered.
Moving forward to more normal times, I hope they go to a 5v4 single play-in game for each division...ideally the winners would have to travel to the 1 seed and play game 1 of the series the next night, as 1 seeds deserve more advantage than they get now.