<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The NBA's competition committee met Friday and agreed to recommend a change in the playoff tiebreaker system. Under the new format, which would still require Board of Governors approval, head-to-head record will remain the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding, but division record would become the second tiebreaker. At present, conference record is the second tiebreaker.</div> Link
Wow that's going to be a huge problem. Take this year with New York, they play in a very weak conference so their record in it is 11-4 but their 18-15 conference record is lower than Milwaukee's 21-12 mark. Yet under this system New York's 11-4 in a weak conference beats the Bucks 10-7 record in a much tougher conference. Unless the playoffs split the brackets up so the top bracket has Atlantic the bottom has Central, then why make the division record so important? I like the idea of giving the 1st 2 seeds automatically to the division winners, but now to say division record is more important is wrong, the playoffs are against the whole conference, conference records matter much more.
