Brian39
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From the context of the post it is pretty clear that I was referring to everyone who is within striking distance of the playoffs. If you read the entire post, I'm obviously not talking about everyone in the league getting to the same number of games played.You won't be able to do this at 71. You'll have to get them to 72 or some other even number.
With 31 teams in the league, 15 games played leaves you with 30 teams with 1 GP and someone who hasn't played a game. Another 15 games played (making sure whoever didn't play in the first 15 plays here) leaves you with 2 teams who haven't played 2 games; you'd need a 16th game between those two teams to get them to 2 GP like everyone else. Carry that forward.
I'm skipping a whole lot of other questions that fall out of here, because I don't want to get into refuting points because no one has fully vetted out everything to exhaustion. But I'll just say that even getting to the same # of GP raises a whole lot of other questions that need to be figured out.
That's why I talked about needing 7 total games. The games I listed in my post are all of the games that would be played in this hypothetical regular season finale that won't ever happen. It would be a way of rapidly getting playoff relevant teams on the same level as the teams they are competing with for playoff spots. This is a hypothetical for a situation where you can't get approval for taking the standings as they currently are.
Because as of right now, there are no rules in place for how playoff seeding works in a situation like this. I believe any agreement will require unanimous agreement from the teams and there is a very good chance one of the teams who will be the odd-man out by just using the standings as they exist will not vote in favor of missing the playoffs. If you run into a scenario where you can't get approval to use points percentage OR pure point total, this is a potential solution to get teams to unanimously approve a format without needing to spend 2+ weeks finishing up the regular season.