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					Originally Posted by 357  Major realignment coming for 2012-13 season? 
2 Conferences (15 teams each) 
4 Divisions the Pacific, Midwest, East and South. (two with 8, two with 7) home-and-home against teams outside their division and top 4 from each division are in the playoffs.
 
Including Detroit and Columbus moving EAST!
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 Re-alignment issues aside, I'm curious how they will justify the 7 division teams having a better shot of making it into the top 4 than the 8 division teams.
Why not just take the top 2 or top 3 from each division and have the remaining 4 or 2 spots be "wild cards" for the remaining best records within the conference?