Towards a better playoffs

[picnroll]

Point is if you're a fan of a decent East team you might like the current format because you play weaker teams in rounds one and two and have a better chance to get to the finals. And fan of mediocre means you can't wait to watch Toronto and Atlanta in the playoffs.

[Chris Childs]

Point is if you're a fan of a decent East team you might like the current format because you play weaker teams in rounds one and two and have a better chance to get to the finals. And fan of mediocre means you can't wait to watch Toronto and Atlanta in the playoffs.

No. Point is if you're a fan of a ''Great'' West team(Spurs 06) you might like the current format because you play ''Weaker" teams(Heat 06) in the finals.

[YoMamaIsCallin]

Stern needs to revise the playoffs format again. Scrap the conference seeding format. Put the best teams in and seed them by completely by record. The weak sisters in the east can keep their advantage of making it to the playoffs by playing each other more than the heavy hitters in the west but that's it.

This plan gives a big advantage to teams from the weaker conference (currently the East). Their won-lost record does not have the same quality as won-lost records in the West, because they play weaker teams twice as often as Western teams do. Yet, you would seed them based on that won-lost record. Doesn't seem reasonable at all. I think this is a complete non-starter of an idea.

If you're going to seed 16 teams together, you'd better have them play very similar schedules.

[jacobdrj]

Excelent point YoMamaIsCallin.