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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
now if they only eliminate this stupid "conference" shit and normalize the season and competition format we'll be on to something one can reasonably follow.
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They're trying to be more like American sports which have two competing Conferences, be it NBA, NFL, or MLB. What the Conference effect does for American sports is it creates instant rivalries. Inter-Conference rivalries develop as teams prepare for the inevitability of playing against each other for the championship. A lot of MLB fans are actually PISSED about the increase of inter-league play between the AL and NL, they say its watering down the Wold Series which used to be more exciting because inter-league teams traditionally only met for the trophy. In the NFL and NBA, inter-conference teams to play against each other, in NBA every team plays against every team, but in the NFL they rotate the schedules and some inter-conference teams don't play each other for years. It makes the potentiality of meeting in the Championship a bit MORE excited, so for an American audience have competing conferences makes sport more followable, in the sense that it keeps rivalries more obvious.