Sports question (Best-of-7 series)

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None of the above. Prefer no series. Just play the game and win or lose.

It takes a very myopic worldview to not realize that that's a terrible idea for a great many sports.

Correct. The more games there are, the more likely the true better team will emerge as the series winner.

In that case (and I agree), scrap the play-offs entirely. Surely the regular season provides the best opportunity to determine which club is best, considering how many games are played?

I'm not opposed to this, actually. I do wish baseball would get rid of the playoffs and just have the top team from each league play in the World Series, but money forfends.

stop being a meritocrat.

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hockey is a joke now anyway with the accrual of points for a skills competition and for losing hockey games.  there is no stratification in the standings at all and most of it has little or nothing to do with actual proficiency at hockey.

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no it has nothing to do with the salary cap.  research has been done to death on salary constraints and it has only a minimal effect if that on equalizing outcomes.  ostensible parity in hockey has everything to do with competition is actually structured and shootouts/overtime losses are rewarded.

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there is a lot less ground to cover from Stockholm to Malmo vs. New York to Los Angeles.

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hockey also needs to switch back to white jerseys at home.  the Lockout broke the sport.

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because the first x million years of hockey were that way.  I'm a reactionary on certain things.