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Here's a novel idea, perhaps all 24 teams in the league could play each other in a set of 46 play-off matches, with the teams being awarded points for how they get on in these play-off matches, then at the end of the season the team with the most play-off points get promoted?
All the excitement of the play-offs, for nine months of the year!
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Eliminator Playoffs on 13:25 - Sep 11 with 2992 views
The 24 teams in the championship should be divided into 6 groups of 4. The top 2 teams of each group automatically qualify. The best 4 3rd place teams also qualify. The remaining 2 3rd place teams + the 6 4th place teams then have 4 play offs The play off winners qualify along with the 4 best losers of the 4 play offs. All 24 teams who have qualified play in a 46 game league where each team plays each other home and away. Top two are automatically promoted. Next 4 teams have a play-off. The bottom 3 teams plus any team with an ‘x’ in its name are relegated.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 15:41 - Sep 11 with 2668 views
I like the system they have in non-league. In theory it should give a big advantage to the teams finishing higher in the league though it doesn’t always work out that way.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 17:39 - Sep 11 with 2414 views
Imagine how dull this league would be if the one slightly realistic chance of promotion was taken away for the majority of the division. Pretty much any team can have a great season and scrape sixth. To finish third is beyond probably 15 teams’ wildest dreams at least and risks making the Prem even more of a closed shop than it already is.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 21:05 - Sep 11 with 2152 views
In Rugby Union, the team that finishes top doesn't even win the thing. They have play offs to see who are the champions. Madness.
Rugby Union is simply a game full of too many rules, whereby players who decide, and are good enough to play at a higher level, yet cross a body of water, either 3.2 miles in respect of Welsh players, or 21 miles in respect of English players, are suddenly deemed unable to represent their country, and then every couple of years, despite the (sly sports encouraged) animosity of the 5/6/7 (?) Nations Cup, come together and hug and play for a combined (commercial inspired) nonsense thing which seems to pit them against a team whom their respective nations have also played, as their nations. Also loved by people who have started working for Goldman Sachs and are forced to appear that they like the sport just to fit in, who then declare a lifelong allegiance to corporately imagined entities such as 'Sarries' and 'Quins', whilst their only comeback is "footballers are wusses". Swing low indeed... I'm probably just a football supporting idiot
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Eliminator Playoffs on 21:35 - Sep 11 with 2088 views
Imagine how dull this league would be if the one slightly realistic chance of promotion was taken away for the majority of the division. Pretty much any team can have a great season and scrape sixth. To finish third is beyond probably 15 teams’ wildest dreams at least and risks making the Prem even more of a closed shop than it already is.
I’m all for the extension: for a side like us where top 6 is a real stretch it gives us a far better chance of the playoffs.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 21:36 - Sep 11 with 2083 views
Don't hate me but I like it. I can, after a drink, imagine us finishing eighth, obviously not this season or next but it's kind of plausible that a QPR team could do that. It might be ten years away or it might be never but I don't feel like I'm being too outlandish to say one day... That being the case, I'm all in.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 21:58 - Sep 11 with 2028 views
Playoffs have been a great addition to football, they should have it for the 4th Champions League spot in the Prem
WIthout them our season would be over already
It'a an absolute nonsense and rewards mediocrity. 46 games in a season provides more than enough opportunities to determine the best performing teams in the league that are deserving of immediate promotion.
In the last 5 seasons, Luton and Brentford have managed to finish third after 46 games. Ipswich finished second after having been promoted from league one the season prior.
So it isn't impossible to finish in the top three.
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Eliminator Playoffs on 06:54 - Sep 12 with 1668 views
You've then have 5th v 8th and 6th v 7th. 2 winners then go into the semi finals against 3rd and 4th
So last year would have been Coventry v Millwall winners play Sheff Utd and Bristol City v Blackburn winners play Sunderland
Getting closer to the Australian style finals they have here with NRL, football and AFL where winning the playoff equivalent trumps winning the league over a full season (referred to as the 'minor' premiership) which is frankly ridiculous.
[Post edited 12 Sep 6:55]
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Eliminator Playoffs on 07:21 - Sep 12 with 1635 views
I just don’t think they are fair really. Agree they are entertaining.
whichever way you do it there can be unfairness, i think it's really kept the EFL leagues alive and interesting
I'm not sure extending it is needed but it would give more teams an opportunity and it gives the league more big games they can sell tv rights for which is what they are doing it for
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Eliminator Playoffs on 10:33 - Sep 12 with 1391 views
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