Originally Posted by
SoccMan
They should go with a single table, and play a balanced schedule. The top team should get a bye straight to the MLS Cup for finishing first . The second place team through to the ninth place team make the playoffs and play for a birth in the final versus the regular season champ. This system rewards the regular season first place team by giving them a place in the final. The way it stands now you can have a first place team eliminated in the first round. It would give the regular season more meaning, coming first overall would mean so much more .