re: Post your unpopular sports opinions

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The fairest way to decide a championship is to have every team play each team home and away, and the team with the best record wins the championship. It doesn't always have the excitement of playoffs. But the Manchester City title over United a couple years back was the most exciting finish in sports.

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agree with the first part, disagree with the second. Sure, the round robin home and home is indisputably the most fair system.

It is also routinely the most boring. Playoffs are exciting. They are also unfair. As a fan, I choose exciting over fairness.

The champion is not the "best" team. they are just the team that won the title. But I'd rather watch a pressure packed playoff game, knowing full well it doesn't determine the "best" team, mainly because it is more exciting, while still having some semblance of fairness. (It's not as unfair as, say, just having the last game, regardless, determine the winner of the league).