I appreciate the lack of traditional fan bases. Kind of inspired by Puovi's first post in thread cause the whole thought of repeated playoff series against the same teams being good (outside of the logistic side) is the build up of rivalries and the real hate being built between the players but also leads to weird vitriol between fans. So despite the playoff format I'm glad there's not insane amounts of hate (that I would notice, at least) coming from the format the same way the NHL would have the impact. Tho im sure it would lead to better media, cause everyone knows no one makes better content than emotionally invested fans.