lomiller1
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- Jan 13, 2015
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People really focus way too much on a few points difference in the standings when arguing over these things. Same thing on the flip side for playoff seedings, people going bananas over bracket seeding about how much more unfair X team's seed is because they have a few more points than Y team. That little difference is basically meaningless in terms of context especially when you factor the whole schedule is unbalanced.
Yup. The other thing to add is that "middleing out" is a real thing. Teams can get stuck in the middle where they are not good enough to win or even make the playoffs consistently but are too good to get a high pick. The current rules significantly reduce the need for these teams to tank, where in the past the only way for them to get better was to tank and hope for some top 3 picks.