A New Era of Playoff Football

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I think having 8/9 teams in the playoffs is a little bit silly. I guess it makes a bit more sense if the idea is to expand to 10 teams soon.

The bottom team of a conference should not be getting into the playoffs in my opinion.

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There’s little point to the regular season if you are basically guaranteed in. Only have to win more games than 1 team.

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If it happens more than I think, who cares whether the playoff format changes?

To me, this change actually makes the league more credible by forcing the division winners to win one more game in the playoffs. If you’re really the best, you should beat down that 7-8 seed no problem. If you lose, that’s on you.

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The point of having few teams make it is you have to earn your spot.

Imagine if the NFL allowed 75% of their teams to make the playoffs? Lol

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As usual, a whole bunch of fans are missing the point because change is bad, wah wah. Round-robins to establish seeding are commonly used in Olympic sports. The extra round essentially gives bottom teams a fighting chance while providing some extra gate and viewership.

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I believe this revised playoff system is the roundabout way of MAINTAINING the two divisions.

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I do like the fact that if you’re going to win the grey cup, you’re going to do it by winning 3 games in a row.

I’m sure that will produce many a great story in the years to come.

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Imagine if we had 32 teams and a billion-dollar football industry? Lol

What the NFL does has no relevance here.

You keep harping on “earning your spot” while failing to realize that those 7-8 seeds aren’t earning a spot in the old format.

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That’s the Olympics they aren’t pros (or shouldn’t be) and aren’t getting paid unless they win.

No way should a team with a 6-12 or 5-13 record make the playoffs.

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And they shouldn’t. They should be earning the 1-6 spot open.

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If the NFL doesn’t allow half or more why should we?

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Exactly. It’s what we want. Winning the division is still good, but now you need to win one more time to hoist the Grey Cup. And – we haven’t talked about this yet – that path is also qualitatively harder, because your first game of the playoffs isn’t against a team that is already beaten up from a previous playoff game. It’s against a good team that is just as fresh as you are.

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89%, actually.

We already have pointless late season games. This will give us about six weeks of them.

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We are not the NFL.

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That’s not the point. Why should do everything to have the same respect as the NFL. This is not it

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OMG THE CFL IS BEING AMERICANIZED WHAT EVER THE EFF SHALL WE DO???

BUT

OMG THE NFL DOESN’T DO THIS THING SO WE SHOULDN’T EITHER!!!

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With 8 of 9 teams making it to the post season it’s safe to say there will never be draft lottery :joy:

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especially love the starting earlier - it’s been a long time coming for that one

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i’m thinking they did this because the owners pushed back on the single division travel part simply because of (skyrocketing) costs

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Do I understand this correctly? Example: First place in one division plays second place in same division. Let’s say second place team wins. First place now plays the lower seeded play-in game winner and let’s say the first place team wins. They now have the possibility of hosting the same team who beat them the week before. Utterly ridiculous.

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