We have already got a 12-team baseball postseason, an NBA play-in spherical, a 12-team faculty soccer playoff, an NFL Tremendous Wild Card Weekend after a 17-game season, a Membership World Cup and a 48-team World Cup. The NHL, MLS and WNBA have all both expanded not too long ago, will increase once more quickly or each. System 1, which for many years ran between 14 and 18 races per yr, is as much as 24 in 21 completely different international locations.
So it’s not altogether stunning that each league, all over the place, is trying so as to add extra.
The NCAA males’s basketball committee is voting this week on whether or not to expand their tournament field from 68 to either 72 or 76 teams, and the ladies’s March Insanity subject is predicted to develop as properly.
The NHL’s new collective bargaining settlement, formally ratified Tuesday, features a move to an 84-game regular season beginning in 2026-27.
