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Originally Posted by transplant99
Every playoff is all about the money then...cause this one is no different. It will still take at least 16 wins to secure it.
And no, they took 24 because its the only way to get to 16 fairly without screwing over some teams that hadn't played the same amount of games as those above them in the standings.
Its actually going to cost the league way more money to house/feed/transport those extra 8 teams than it would have otherwise.
This exercise isn't going to make an extra dime for the league, it is only going to recoup about 50% of what they would have received had their not been a pandemic. Estimates have them coming out 600 MILLION dollars behind where it should have been.
These conspiracy theories are obnoxious.
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They certainly could have done 9 byes and played 14 down into 7 spots. Or there are any number of round robin scenarios that would preserve more competitive integrity.
3 hubs x 7 teams: excludes the longest shots of ARI, CHI, MTL
But, these ideas are more complicated and don't make it any easier to manage risk. Understandably, they are taking the simplest, most lucrative path.