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It is something that HO has been thinking about, we talked about it on the expansion reveal livestream on youtube if you wanted to hear a bit more of our thoughts about it
I support TBB being the only team in the Philadelphia division
05-03-2021, 05:12 PMluketd Wrote: [ -> ]
It is something that HO has been thinking about, we talked about it on the expansion reveal livestream on youtube if you wanted to hear a bit more of our thoughts about it
I think it is perfect. This visually is what i hoped.
ABC Division-
Atlanta
Baltimore
Buffalo
Calgary
Chicago
EHLM Division-
Edmonton
Hamilton
Los Angeles
Manhattan
Minnesota
MNPS Division-
Montreal
New England
New Orleans
Philadelphia
San Francisco
STW Division-
Seattle
Tampa Bay
Texas
Toronto
Winnipeg
i vote no to putting an expansion team in a division with buffalo, ham and toronto
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05-04-2021, 04:46 AMdankoa Wrote: [ -> ]i vote no to putting an expansion team in a division with buffalo, ham and toronto
It's some real monkey paw stuff.
"I wish for an expansion team"
"Done, you're in the Great Lakes Division"
Wild thought: Why do we even need Divisions in the first place, what benefit does it have in a virtual league where travel isn't a factor? Why not go straight by Conference or just have Divisions on paper but don't use them for playoff seeding, like the NHL did until a few years ago? We had purely Conference-based playoff-seeding in the SHL as well not too long ago, and I don't see how switching away from it has improved anything, if anything it has made the playoff races a lot less exciting while also making things more uneven and arbitrary between Divisions.
05-04-2021, 08:55 AMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: [ -> ]Wild thought: Why do we even need Divisions in the first place, what benefit does it have in a virtual league where travel isn't a factor? Why not go straight by Conference or just have Divisions on paper but don't use them for playoff seeding, like the NHL did until a few years ago? We had purely Conference-based playoff-seeding in the SHL as well not too long ago, and I don't see how switching away from it has improved anything, if anything it has made the playoff races a lot less exciting while also making things more uneven and arbitrary between Divisions.
Head Office likes divisions is the real answer, it’s why the new playoff format is likely going to be similar to the NHLs aka like this;
Great Lakes (GL) #1 vs Wild-Card (WC) #2
GL #2 vs GL#3
Atlantic (ATL) #1 vs WC#1
ATL #2 vs ATL #3
Idk why HO won’t just make it so that division winners get the top two seeds in each conference, and then go 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, but I guess they even like copying the shitty aspects of the nhl
what if we had no divisions
05-04-2021, 09:54 AMfishy Wrote: [ -> ]Idk why HO won’t just make it so that division winners get the top two seeds in each conference, and then go 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, but I guess they even like copying the shitty aspects of the nhl
This, mostly.
I think it'll be way more fun to have the 1-8, 2-7, etc.
Doing it with just divisions leads to repetitive series and after a few seasons of the same 2v3 divisional first round matchups, it'll get boring and stale. You don't have to do it this way to create rivalries, they do that just from playing teams in their own division more. I've found playing different teams in the playoffs every season (Yes children, NOLA used to actually make the playoffs a whole bunch, I swear) much more fun. And rivalries got built regardless from the playoffs. I mean hell, New Orleans' biggest rival that's come from the playoffs is Buffalo, and we've only played twice haha.
I do believe Head Office should forego the "divisional round", and just have The division winners 1 and 2, and then 3-8 can be conference points based. This means the idea they had with the wildcards still work, as we could just as easily have 5 from one division and 3 from the other as much as we'd get a 4-4 split.
Can you do FHM without divisions?
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