This triggers the bong. https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature

>Chelsea has been the runaway favorite to win the title for a few months now, and the team officially clinched a week ago. This isn’t uncommon. Even Leicester City’s shocking run to a league title last year, one of the most exciting outcomes in league history, was clinched two weeks before the end of the season.

Gay af desu senpai

there's already the Champions League if you want playoffs

and the FA Cup

fuck off

>>75998159
He was speaking to britain, as was the article

fuck off nigger

>>75998168
>FA Cup
>not britain

dumb amerinigger

>>75998137

Yeah if only English football had some sort of straight knockout competition. Great idea OP, we can call it the FA Cup or maybe the League Cup. Both good names.

>>75998206
>>75998192
>>75998159

>Hey guys there are people starving throughout the world, this is a bad situation
>pffft we already have some countries with food, if you want food just go there, let the rest starve because reasons

Having a separate league doesn't change the fact that its very, very stupid to have a league that gets decided two weeks in advance. It really has nothing to do with other leagues at all. Are there any PL fans who would really say the upcoming games are going to be worth watching? Its pointless.

>>75998245

These games would be pointless anyway under your proposal. No other team can get in the top 6 now.

>>75998253
Theres more teams fighting for a slot. Sure, not everyone matters, but MORE do. A LOT more. That's the idea.

Playoffs make leagues better.

>>75998137
Never going to happen.

Football is entertaining enough to draw a crowd with nothing on the line. It doesn't need to have a carrot at the end of a stick to draw an audience. Either stick with your """sports""" or work on your attention span.

>>75998137
sounds stupid

every few seasons a team is absolutely superb and fully deserves the title, not an extra playoff.

>>75998293
no, they make leagues pointless

the point of leagues is to decide which team is the best, not to make it exciting

for exctiement you have many many cups

>>75998137
Rugby still has playoffs and everyone kinda thinks they're a waste of time.

Oh and the US has playoffs because their schedules are retarded

The Red Sox will play the Yankees for like 5 series in a season but they'll only play 1 series against some AL teams and no series against most of the NL.

You have a 162 game baseball season and yet have to have playoffs because of the apparent need for completely fucking unbalanced scheduling.

>>75998293

>Makes Leagues Better
How? All it does is make it more complicated to crown a champion. If you are in 1st Place, you are the champion. Simple.

It works here with Apehoop, Boreswing, Handegg because the sports were built around it. And the only reason the MlelS does it is because the league forced it, instead of doing what the rest of the world does and having a standard league.

>there will never be a cinderella game in the PL

literally kill yourselves, thats what sports are all about.

>>75998421
>what are most end season fixtures when the top 4 are tight

Ageuro QPR is probably the geatest moment in football ever, tied with Alan Smith at Anfield.

>>75998168
>>75998245
>>75998293
>>75998421

Tripfags were a mistake

>>75998293
So why does everyone shit on the NBA regular season? You have your biggest star coming out and saying it doesn't matter. You have two teams about to go 12-0

>>75998382
I think you have a half a point here. They dont have playoffs to "make up" for not playing other teams, they have them because its better. Period.

>>75998434
Exept they still might win, go home, find out the other team they needed to win lost, and its all meaningless.

>>75998436
Because the NBA seasons are way too long and the past couple of years have been controlled by super teams. its a new thing. The NBA has plenty of problems, all of which have different solutions. Getting rid of the playoffs would single handedly destroy basketball though, because teams would wrap up like a month early.

>>75998435
been here longer than you bud. And it was better before you. You were a mistake.

>>75998484
The regular will never matter. What's stopping LeBron from tanking to 8th and then still walking to the finals? No playoffs mean people actually have to try about every game. You're saying the problem with a football season is at the end the games don't matter, but the problem with playoffs is that beginning doesn't matter. All you doing is shifting the problem

>>75998503
You're nitpicking the NBA

>What's stopping LeBron from tanking to 8th
what does this even mean

>then still walking to the finals
what? i did say the superteam thing is unprecedented because it is.

>No playoffs mean people actually have to try about every game
false. the PL is the counterexample

>>75998137
what a great idea to take more money from customers and sponsors

>>75998544
>Super team is unprecedented
2011 Heat
2008 Celtics
2000 Lakers
90's Bulls
80's Lakers and Celtics
70's Lakers
60's Celtics
The NBA has always been superteams.

>false. the PL is the counterexample
Players have to try every game until they win. In the NFL things work because they's only 16 games, but the only reason there is 16 is because of health issues. You'd have to half the season of football just to get something similar and even then you would still end up with a pointless system as it would be the same teams winning

The UCL is the european equivalent of the playoffs

>>75998568
pairs; and I dont think you really know what youre talking about. Those arent superteams, those are good teams. These teams now are just money-star teams.

and do i really have to cite manchester united?

>Players have to try every game until they win
you do know chelsea already won? like its over before the league is? They can run in fucking circles for half the game.

the rest of your post is just nonsense. I should mention playoffs are only worth it if theyre single elimination. I shoulda said that first. THATS what makes playoffs goat.

>>75998615
you guys really dont get it do you? you just dont know what its like to have playoffs be standard. Sad desu.

>>75998434
1989 is objectively superior to 2012.

>>75998623
>and do i really have to cite manchester united?
What about them? They spend shitload of money each year and continue to fail.
>you do know chelsea already won? like its over before the league is? They can run in fucking circles for half the game.
There's one game left.
>I shoulda said that first. THATS what makes playoffs goat.
Then it doesn't value consistency. You have a team win all their games in the season then maybe have one bad game and is knocked out. I can say it's more entertaining but for actually determining which team is best it's shit

>>75998137
This is why the Cups exist

>>75998623
So you think there should be more games even though we know Chelsea have been the best team ?

>>75998631
True

When Anfield was actually a real fortress winning 2-0 to win the league in the last minute is nothing short of legendary

>>75998382
AL and NL are different leagues my friend, there should be no (0) interleague games.

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>let's make a playoff system for a league that has 2 in place already

>>75998651
>>75998655
Dont we always know who the best team is?

Without playoffs, theres no REAL measure of clutch. Theres almost (90%) never a "this is it" game. Those are what sports are about.

Surely you all have heard of 18-1 by now. you know what happened. And everybody knows the pats were the best team in the league that year. But on 3 Feb 2008, they decided they didnt want to show up. Champions fight till the last, not until they get their consolation prize for being "well rounded".

Sports are the human expression of competition. It's always been a proxy for battle. If you got started a fight tournament and the last round was you getting knocked the fuck out, how are you a champion? Where's the greatness?

I get the idea of identifying the team that won the most games by a decent margin, but does that really make you a champion? Does that word hold any real meaning in the PL?

If so, then why do they reserve the name for the version with playoffs?

>>75998752
Kek. This is fucking retarded. If you dominant a season thoroughly then you don't need to have a "this is it" game. It's like asking Muhammad Ali to fight a bottom rung guy and work his way up. If he's already the champ then why bother?

>>75998770
i said tournament
can you fucking read?

And if a guy works his way up and knocks out ali, should we let ali have the title anyway because he has more wins?

what a joke

>>75998789
Yes, because of punchers luck. Ali has shown himself to be consistently better throughout. What if he doesn't get much sleep and goes into the fight feeling unwell? He gets knocked once and we're meant to ignore everything else that has happened?

>>75998801
Real Champions always get at least 8 hours of sleep.

>>75998801
His face is in the fucking mat. Champions stand. They don't bow.

Is rousey still champ to you? seriously?

>>75998816
No, because she faced weak competition. The winner of the PL has to face everybody in the league and come out on top.

>>75998839
what if there are mostly shit teams dude

youre hypothetically moving about things

>>75998856
>Most shit teams
What's your point? The teams, aside from relegation and promotion, are the same each year. Its not like MMA where there a millions of people not involved in the company UFC. There's much more consistency

>>75998875
rousey dominated the same people who are still top contenders. you have no argument. period.

>>75998891
No one in that division is a contender. It's weak as fuck with just Nunes and Shevchenko. Besides one on one is so much different and more isolated compared to a team sport where things like chemistry and style have to be taken into account

>>75998421
They just had a whole cinderella season last year

>>75998940
>cinderella season
>season

ya blew it

>>75998137
That's fucking retarded. In this system the 6th team overall, which is definitively inferior to the 1st (90 pts vs. 66, 80 goals vs. 52), would be able to upset 3 games and win.
To define the BEST team, a league is the patrician system. You have to be good everytime, everywhere. You have to beat everybody, at home and away. You have to manage players in the long run. You have to analyze your opponents and carefully devise strategies to beat them.
In a playoff a team can just luck out, go to penalty shoot outs each time and win.

538 clearly don't know about Emglish football below the PL.

There's playoffs galore in the EFL and beyond.

>>75998752
>Theres almost (90%) never a "this is it" game. Those are what cups are about.

The FA Cup was always THE competition in england. The league only took over being more popular in recent decades because people acknowledge it's the better measure of a great team.

Literally every league in the world has second and below divisions with playoffs

>>75999022
2bh familia cups are almost more prestigious than league at least (afaik) in England (FA Cup), France (Coupe de France) and Spain (Copa del Rey), and are direct qualifier for Europa League

>>75999051
And they're often an absolute memefest to determine who goes up
>Blackpool 6 Luton 5
>Scunthorpe 2 Millwall 3

>>75998994
this

see poortugal in 2016

>>75998137
Do Top 8, so Leicester can win the Premierb Owl

>>75999051
wildcard

the two top usually walk the league and deserve promotion. the other 4 are a fuckfest of dreadful teams

>>75999062
>cups are almost more prestigious than league
AYYYY LMAO do you really believe this?

do you really think arselel fans, for example, think winning the cups are more prestigious than winning the league? The answer is no, even arselel fans aren't retarded or desperate enough to say domestic cups are 'almost more prestigious' than a league, or anything other than nothing

>>75998137
OP here, all yuros need to take a deep breath, this will never happen. It's just a thought experiment.

>>75998206
/thread

>>75998137
>Every Football Association at least one knock-out competition
> Major leagues with plenty of TV ₪ pouring in have two.
> International Champions Leagues(and a secondary, lesser competition too) on every continent
> Smaller leagues have playoffs for Europa League and/or promotions
> That Flag, That Post


> Woooh! Go Wolverhampton Wildcats for English League Soccer, Central Conference Playoffs
> "Wildcats" beat Villa
> Franchise moves, they're now Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Wildcats
> Stadium is called PepsiMAX Boeing Samsung Thunderdome
> Chili Dog Thursdays
no thanks

>>75999062

'no'

The Cup is the shit competition to give shit-tier teams some hope of achieving something.

>>75999423

It is in Spain, in England it's actually a decent competition.

Chelsea already beat Tottenham at Wembley in a knockout game late in the season. They would still be champions under a playoff system.

>>75999398
>Stadium is called PepsiMAX Boeing Samsung Thunderdome

If only American stadiums had glorious traditional names like "Etihad", "Emirates", and "Bet365", instead of disgusting corporate names like "Fenway", "Soldier", and "Yankee".

>>75999677
>Referring to Ashburton Grove and The Britannia by their temporary names created in order to scam oil shekels from idiot kebab princelings with more money than sense.

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>>75998137
I'll tell you what would happen. The team that won, ie was first in points total at the end of the season, well when they subsequently 'lost' in some yankee style 'play off' (fag off more like), well their fans would burn down the offices of the FA and smash up the stadium of the fag off 'winner'.

>>75999734
>implying that anyone calls the Emirates "Ashburton Grove"

I'll give you the Britannia though