Only 8 teams in the league now, which means two series’ per day, 2 days per week. Less teams means more competition for the remaining spots, and in turn makes the remaining teams in the league more competitive so there’s less snooze feats. Plus the new patch looks super interesting and could reignite interest in the game.
So in the previous system with 10 teams, double round robin, every team played 18 games and there were 90 total games played.
If we do a single round robin best of three with 8 teams, the every team will play somewhere between 14 and 21 games depending on series length. So the season would now take somewhere between 56 games and 84 games total. Is my math correct there? Can someone peer check me? So i’m pretty certain that even if you go to a full three games for every series, its still a shorter overall broadcast time than what we would have had in a 10 team season.
Personally I’ve been asking for single round robin best of three for a year or two now, I think its an improvement over the best of one format.