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Assuming both teams keep going with their current offensive strategy, I do think that Tampa Bay scoring coming from a lot of different players to help them come out on top, because they can assign a line to specifically stop Webb, which should stop most of San Francisco offence, and have their offensive production coming from their other lines. However, the Pride will probably find a way to adapt if the Barracuda use this strategy.

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I do think that our current playoff system makes things significantly more difficult for both Buffalo and New Orleans in the first round. Buffalo faced a team that finished the season in fifth place in the conference and only got six points less than them, while the team that came second in their division, Baltimore, finished the season with 68 points which is 11 points less than Philadelphia who ended up betting the Stampede in the first round of the playoffs. I also think, it did benefit the Forge to switch division, because their first-round opponent was worse than what they would have faced if they finished third and had to face Tampa Bay and Atlanta back to back in the first two rounds.  In the Western Conference, New Orleans had to face the Los Angeles Panthers who ended the season with 74 points, while the Renegades, who finished second in the Central division being the Specters, faced Chicago who got 53 points during the regular season. Clearly, New Orleans had to face a significantly stronger opponent in the first even if they finished in front of Chicago. Going to a system where the division winners occupies the first two places in each conference and the rest of the team are rank from three to eight, the only first-round matchup who would have stayed the same is San Francisco against Winnipeg, which means we would have looked at a completely different playoffs pictures and most likely a change in the outcome.

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