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Help!!! This happens every time this topic comes up. The first two posts argue against the idea of a playoff. The next post addresses how we would do it and the rest follow suit.
May I ask the playoff supporters why they want a playoff. Is it because ....
1. The excitement of a season ending tournament outweighs the loss of emphasis on regular season games.
2. The National Champion should be any decent team that can get hot and win three or four straight games rather than prove itself over the course of a season. After all, it is really cool when wild card teams that can't win their own divisions win the Super Bowl or World Series. Can't wait until the third place team in the SEC takes home the Circuit City trophy.
3. Season ending games are 'magic'. They really 'prove' something, while regular season games are just exhibition and should be viewed as such.
4. That's the way people do it in PS2.
The only thing an 8 team playoff proves is that if you divide 8 by 2 four times you get 1. A 16 team playoff takes five times. The teams can play well or poorly. The refs can be good or incompetent. Payers can be injured or not. Somebody will win 4 or 5 games and be crowned champion.
Simple fact - upsets happen. Putting more teams in a playoff ABSOLUTELY decreases the chances that the best team will be crowned NC - not the other way around.
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