Playoffs: What's the Point?
Kirstin Zboncak
2025-05-22 12:23:16
Count answers: 4
It's about keeping it competitive, for as many teams as possible. Otherwise it's like watching a load of friendlies. Competition drives interest. Interest makes money.
The playoffs are a gimme, an outside chance for the teams who failed to get up. A free hit at promotion, earned by getting top 6.
All of the criteria for promotion, playoffs, euro qualification are set out before they start the season and the clubs signed up to it. And in that case, it's fair.
Kendra Bailey
2025-05-22 11:23:41
Count answers: 5
It simply introduces randomness, opening up opportunities to teams that would otherwise be out of such contention. The drama of one or two-match knockouts is an added bonus of playoff football. The primary benefit must be the creation of competitiveness, expanding the playing field in a way that the Premier League has failed to do. Less wealthy teams are at a brutal disadvantage to overcome the top six through 38 matches. They can, as last season showed, remain close to them. Close enough to be in a potential playoff for a European spot, for instance. It might be alien to English football betting, and an unusual thing to see in European soccer at all, but playoffs are an, albeit artificial, means of counteracting the factors that make the same teams succeed.
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