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ShatteredElysium 11/23/19 6:10:15 PM #215:	KCF0107 posted... https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28145944/sources-nba-considering-reseeding-conference-finalists-postseason-play-in I guess not being familiar with Euro soccer is making it hard for me to grasp the purpose of a small regular season tournament using middle of the road teams in November/December with playoff implications. It's hard to translate to American sports. In England a competition the attraction of a competition like the FA Cup is the field is massive and it's possible for far lesser teams to get far enough in the competition to play the huge teams. And on some occasions they actually win. The English Football Pyramid looks like this https://justtalkingaboutmygeneration.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/546319_10150689478622843_1062053608_n.jpg If you win the league (or sometimes come in the top 2-4 of one tier) and you go up to the next tier. The above is actually condensed as once you get lower down the pyramids there is a shit ton of teams. To put it in perspective, when I was a teenager I played in Tier 10. Games were played on Sundays (or week day nights) in the equivalent of a random park with like 5-50 people watching. In the FA Cup it is entirely possible for a team like that to win enough games to get to the point where they play the equivalent of an NFL or NBA team. It rarely happens but what does happen at least a few times a year is a team from like Tier 4-7 plays a Tier 1-2 team and like 1-2 times a year they pull the upset off. It's always fun watching semi-pro players who basically don't get paid playing against players who are getting paid $300k a week to play. <cite>ShatteredElysium posted [p:930592847] in NBA Discus... [t:78101425]...</cite> <quote>KCF0107 posted...</cite> <quote>https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28145944/sources-nba-considering-reseeding-conference-finalists-postseason-play-in I guess not being familiar with Euro soccer is making it hard for me to grasp the purpose of a small regular season tournament using middle of the road teams in November/December with playoff implications.</quote> It's hard to translate to American sports. In England a competition the attraction of a competition like the FA Cup is the field is massive and it's possible for far lesser teams to get far enough in the competition to play the huge teams. And on some occasions they actually win. The English Football Pyramid looks like this https://justtalkingaboutmygeneration.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/546319_10150689478622843_1062053608_n.jpg If you win the league (or sometimes come in the top 2-4 of one tier) and you go up to the next tier. The above is actually condensed as once you get lower down the pyramids there is a shit ton of teams. To put it in perspective, when I was a teenager I played in Tier 10. Games were played on Sundays (or week day nights) in the equivalent of a random park with like 5-50 people watching. In the FA Cup it is entirely possible for a team like that to win enough games to get to the point where they play the equivalent of an NFL or NBA team. It rarely happens but what does happen at least a few times a year is a team from like Tier 4-7 plays a Tier 1-2 team and like 1-2 times a year they pull the upset off. It's always fun watching semi-pro players who basically don't get paid playing against players who are getting paid $300k a week to play.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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