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Originally Posted by chasmvp19
The whole article and premise is ridiculous on its face. There could be 3 wildcard teams in our league with better records than a division winner...now with that in mind...what would you do with a 4th team with a better record than a division winner??? If you wouldn't remove that division winner from the playoffs all together then you can't restack the playoffs just because you think it is more fair - because it is not - divisions matter...Baseball is the same way - wildcard teams may have better records than division winners and they don't take the place of division winners because DIVISIONS MATTER...if more teams have better records than division winners they don't move in to playoffs inplace of division winners because - you guessed it - DIVISIONS MATTER....
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Winning a division would guarantee you a top 5 seed in the playoffs. The 6th would still be All-Play. The 2 Wild Cards would be the top 2 records in the league that DIDN'T win a division.
Seeding is the only thing that would change.
Say the 3 division winners were East 9-5, Central 10-4 and West 8-6, and the 2 Wild Card teams were both 9-5 (both of whom beat the East Division winner).
In this case the seeds would be:
1 Central Div at 10-4
2 WC1 at 9-5 (H2H win over WC2 and East Div)
3 WC2 at 9-5 (H2H win over east div, but loss to WC1)
4 East Div at 9-5 (H2H losses to WC1 and WC2)
5 West Div at 8-5
6 Best remaining AP record
The same teams make the playoffs, and division winners are still guaranteed a spot, they just aren't guaranteed a top 3 seed.