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CFP unanimously approves 5+7 model for new 12-team playoff
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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 1002169" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>I hate expanded playoffs in all sports. Expanding the playoffs doesn’t give you more meaningful games. It just gives you more games to sell to fans and TV audiences as being important. Being the best team across an entire regular season schedule is more representative of being a “true” champion than being the hottest team for a couple of weeks. Eventually leagues will just start putting everyone into the playoffs, and even the first rounds of the playoffs will start to feel no different than regular season games. I mean hell, the NBA is trying to create the playoffs <em>within </em>the regular season because they’ve devalued it so much. If over half the league wasn’t in the playoffs, which take way too long anyway, you wouldn’t have to create ways to trick people into watching regular season games. Because the regular season would actually mean something. </p><p></p><p>Baseball’s original wild card playoff system had it right I think. 30 teams, 8 make the playoffs. 6 division winners and 2 wild cards. No byes, no stupid play-in games, no 1 game shootouts, just the best teams in the league that year battling for 1 extra month. </p><p></p><p>People claim adding playoff teams makes the games mean more, when all they’re really doing is shifting “meaningfulness” from the regular season into the playoffs. Further devaluing the regular season, and making it even more enticing to further expand the playoffs. It’s a never ending cycle that only exists to pad execs pockets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 1002169, member: 4572"] I hate expanded playoffs in all sports. Expanding the playoffs doesn’t give you more meaningful games. It just gives you more games to sell to fans and TV audiences as being important. Being the best team across an entire regular season schedule is more representative of being a “true” champion than being the hottest team for a couple of weeks. Eventually leagues will just start putting everyone into the playoffs, and even the first rounds of the playoffs will start to feel no different than regular season games. I mean hell, the NBA is trying to create the playoffs [I]within [/I]the regular season because they’ve devalued it so much. If over half the league wasn’t in the playoffs, which take way too long anyway, you wouldn’t have to create ways to trick people into watching regular season games. Because the regular season would actually mean something. Baseball’s original wild card playoff system had it right I think. 30 teams, 8 make the playoffs. 6 division winners and 2 wild cards. No byes, no stupid play-in games, no 1 game shootouts, just the best teams in the league that year battling for 1 extra month. People claim adding playoff teams makes the games mean more, when all they’re really doing is shifting “meaningfulness” from the regular season into the playoffs. Further devaluing the regular season, and making it even more enticing to further expand the playoffs. It’s a never ending cycle that only exists to pad execs pockets. [/QUOTE]
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