01-09-2019, 01:41 PMmajesiu Wrote:

01-09-2019, 12:44 PMr1c3bowl22 Wrote: It makes the league more competitive, which drives fun. I'm all for having all the SMJHL teams make the playoffs, since that's where we generally find newer members and you wanna keep those guys engaged as much as possible, but I think competition in the SHL should be welcomed. At least give it a season or two to see how that pans out, and then think about realignment and all that. I'm not opposed to a 4:4 playoff split to start with.

Half of the leagues get two extra weeks off and from a user perspective, it's really boring, even in SHL. Maybe the issue here is not the number of teams, but the duration of the playoffs? It's not like STHS output even in form of PBPs is interesting enough to have playoffs last almost two weeks.
How about one-week playoffs?
Monday First Round
Tuesday 2nd Round
Wednesday/Thursday Conference Finals
And you still get 3 day's for SHL/SMJHL Finals PBP's with potential Game 7 on Monday

We're already running two games a day for playoffs, you're suggesting doing a full round a day? 4-7 games simmed? That seems like a lot, especially since GM's are going to possibly change lines in between games.