Talk:Shaughnessy playoff system
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Use in NHL
[edit]"In the Original Six era of the National Hockey League (1942-1967), the circuit adopted a Shaughnessy playoff system (first place vs. fourth place and second place vs. third place) in which the paired teams played in a best-four-of-seven-games series with the winners advancing to the Stanley Cup championship round."
Not quite true. The NHL used first-vs-third and second-vs-fourth pairings for most of the six-team era. As there were usually three good teams and three bad ones, this gave the second-place finisher a big edge, so it's surprising that it lasted so long. They probably feared a rout with perennial champ Montreal squaring off against whichever of Boston, Chicago and New York managed to finish fourth. I think it went to 1-vs-4 and 2-vs-3 only after expansion. WHPratt (talk) 12:56, 10 October 2012 (UTC). I changed the article. It was 1v3 and 2v4 throughout the O-6 era. Reference http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=25433.
Hard to envisage such a simple system was "invented" as late as 1933. More likely it was just discarded as too simplistic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.214.167 (talk) 02:52, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Don't other conferences use Shaughnessy playoffs too?
[edit]In the 2017 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, 2017 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament and the 2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament, the top 8 teams in the conference qualified for the tournament, and were matched in the first round playoffs as 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, and 4 vs. 5. Isn't that exactly the same as a Shaughnessy playoff, just with twice as many teams qualifying? For that matter, you could say the same about the 2017 Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament, in that the top 8 teams qualified, although there are only 8 teams. Is the essence of a Shaughnessy playoff that there must be only four teams involved? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 21:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)