Rewarding/Punishing teams (point differential)

[Davy-040]

At the end of the regular season reward each team 1 win for every +1 pt diff and punish teams with 1 loss for every -1 pt diff.


This what the standings would look like for this season...

Team Wins:

Celtics 75
Knicks 54
Bucks 51
Cavaliers 50
Pacers 50
Sixers 50
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Magic 49
Heat 47
Bulls 38
Hawks 34
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Nets 30
Raptors 19
Hornets 11
Wizards 6
Pistons 5


Thunder 64
Wolves 62
Nuggets 62
Clippers 54
Pelicans 53
Mavericks 52
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Suns 52
Warriors 48
Kings 47
Lakers 47
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Rockets 42
Jazz 27
Grizzlies 20
Spurs 16
Trailblazers 12

ofcourse these extra points don't go down in the record books, that wouldn't be fair, it's just to add some spice to playoff seeding.

[accord2008]

This will create issues with teams that are just out of the play in, or teams in the playoffs who want to get higher seeding. To have a need of getting more points in a win to get better seeding, teams might only keep starters in the game for the whole 4th quarter to get more points in a blowout win. Rotation and out of rotation players will have to take a seat, while the starters risk injury.


Also there will be bottom teams who have no shot of winning, and they put in the out of rotation players out there just to protect the better players from injury for next year under contract, and the winning team who needs the seeding will keep their best players out there to keep on running up the score to get points. It will look like a slaughter house.