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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Then, as I said, you’d still have the top 3 teams all in one conference and people would complain about that. Maybe not you, but other people would complain and the total volume of complaints would remain much the same.
The league has zero incentive to monkey with the playoff format every time some fan gets cheesed about an odd bracket in one particular year.
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It doesn't matter if they complain about it at that point, because it is not be feasible to go to a 1 thru 16 format.
It is, however, feasible to go to a 1 thru 8 format for each conference. In so doing, removing situations where the 2nd best team and 3rd best team in the league have to face each other in round 1, for the right to face the #1 team in the league in round 2.
No such scenario would take place in a 1 thru 8 format. At worst you'd have the 2nd best and 3rd best team face each other in the 2nd round. Which is miles better than making them play in the first round.
And no this isn't just a one time oddity. This has been an ongoing problem since they brought this dumb format in.