Still, this possibility simply isn't possible in the 2-2-1-1-1 format employed in the NBA playoffs' first three rounds and throughout the entire NHL postseason. To gauge the sample size, this scenario in the 2-3-2 has only arisen four times in the NBA since 1985, fives times in the MLB League Championship Series since 1998 and seven times in the World Series since 1924. When they don't, the team with the worse regular season record actually ends up playing more games at home than the team with the advantage, assuming the series ends in five games with the higher seed losing 4-1 (This argument will soon extend to baseball's upcoming 2-3 Division Series should the lower seed win 3-0). Those games help bookend the series should it actually make it six or seven games.īut that's the point, there are times series don't last that long. The supposed advantage of the 2-3-2 for the home team is that as opposed to just having Game 7 at home in a 2-2-1-1-1, that team now gets Game 6 and Game 7 in front of their own fans, in their own building. just wasn't for Red.īy losing their series with the Miami Heat in five games, the Thunder, whose 47-19 record was better than the Heat's 46-20, actually played fewer games at home in the series than did the Heat. The NBA adopted the format for the finals in 1985 at the behest of Celtics demigod Red Auerbach, who pushed for it in an effort to cut down on cross-country travel - flying back and forth from Boston to L.A. The 2-3-2 playoff format has been utilized in the World Series since 1924 and in MLB's League Championship Series since 1998. Of course I'm happy they broke a 25-year championship drought in front of the home fans, and actually won and that the A's actually won a title in Philly in the first place.īut if homefield advantage is actually supposed to mean something in the playoffs, then neither Game 5 should have ever been played in Philadelphia. The Atheltics wouldn't have won at Shibe in 1929 either. If I had it my way, the Phillies would not have closed out their 2008 World Series in Citizens Bank Park. But, seeing as how the issue still exists, has not been remedied, likely will not be remedied, and just reared its head again, consider the following. Given how I aim to grab your attention, I suppose this argument, or at least its lede, is about four years too late.
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