Why the 2-3-2 finals setup hurts the HC team

[BigErieCavsFan]

I thought about this after game 5, but never got the time to post it.

If the team with the HC advantage wins all its home games in the 2-2-1-1-1 setup, they are never behind in the series. In the 2-3-2 version they are after game 5.

It's debatable if that's a good think or not, but I just never liked that it was different from the rest of the post season and it kills any question in my mind about who it favors...

 

[Surge]

You're right, of course. But I think that the time off between games needs fixed also.

 

[BigErieCavsFan]

You're right, of course. But I think that the time off between games needs fixed also.

Yea, the whole post season is drawn out too long. It should be one day off for same city games 2 at the most for travel games.

 

[InBoobieWeTrust]

I disagree.

I think that it's very hard for any great team to win three games in a row. So, if you have to play three in a row at home, you're much more prone to losing a home-game and the non-HC team will have a really hard time splitting BOTH of the two game series' on the road.

 

[BigErieCavsFan]

I disagree.

I think that it's very hard for any great team to win three games in a row. So, if you have to play three in a row at home, you're much more prone to losing a home-game and the non-HC team will have a really hard time splitting BOTH of the two game series' on the road.

Yea, but I still think the fact that even if the HC team wins all the HC games, they are behind after game 5 makes a bigger difference.

 

[tedginnjr]

The only thing that doesn't make sense about it to me is that the series can end with the road team having played more games at home than the one with home court advantage.

 

[Numbers Guy]

The only other thing to do is 3-3-1. 2-2-1-1-1 isn't possible with road time.

 

[The Common Man]

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[Matt S]

I think it can be argued that the road team not getting game 6 at home is a major disadvantage in the 2-3-2 setup. If the HC team loses in 5, they deserve to lose the series regardless; but for those series that go 6 or 7, in the 2-3-2 setup, getting both games 6 and 7 at home is huge. The road team doesn't even have a shot at playing a closeout game at home.

 

[Obawan12]

Who cares? Road team still has to win a road game. It could be 3-4 format for all I care...

In case you couldn't tell, I'm not exactly a big believer in momentum. The winner of one game doesn't effect the next, IMO...

 

[The Common Man]

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[BigErieCavsFan]

2-3-2 is not an advantage for the "road" team. It's just less of an advantage for the HC team than 2-2-1-1-1 is. If the series goes 7 games, the home court team gets 4 of them still. In no way is this a disadvantage.

Plus with the media and travel time, this is the only logical way to do it.

I never said it gave the advantage to the road team. I'm basically saying the same thing as you, that the HC team gets less of an advantage in the 2-3-2 then they do in the 2-2-1-1-1.

The only thing that doesn't make sense about it to me is that the series can end with the road team having played more games at home than the one with home court advantage.

Basically the same thing I'm saying too...

 

[Obawan12]

I never said it gave the advantage to the road team. I'm basically saying the same thing as you, that the HC team gets less of an advantage in the 2-3-2 then they do in the 2-2-1-1-1.



Basically the same thing I'm saying too...

The only way this scenario could happen is if the team with HCA loses a home game or the team without HCA loses 2 home games, in which case HCA then wasn't a factor anyways. In the end, the road team has to win a road game. It's simple as that...

 

[BigErieCavsFan]

My whole point is that the road team plays more home games than the HC team does at some point in the series (after game 5). To me, that's definitely a better scenario for the road team than the 2-2-1-1-1 format provides...

 

[Prime 1978]

The 2-3-2 set-up for the finals is to minimize the travel of the large international press that the series draws and to rest players.


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