by Wombat » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:04 pm
yeah, the top 2 teams from each division... or basically what the regions are right now... would get in for sure, then the next 4 best records regardless of what region they are in would get in. So theoretically you could have 6 teams from one division in the east region and only 2 from the other.... or 5 teams from one and 3 from another, just depending on overall record.
If Ties wouldn't really matter since the 4 "wild-card" teams would just be randomly drawn into the playoff bracket against one of the automatic qualifiers. If there was a tie for the 8th place you could break the tie by looking at head to head games... if there was no head to head games there would still be 3 common opponents so you could go by the best record against those common opponents. If it was still tied then we could bring back the dreaded points system, but at least it would be to determine which team with the same record makes it rather than determining if a 1-7 team should get in over a 3-5 team
Mitch Greenwood
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