Hello I know we covered this last year but I am still looking into writing a book about the idea of play-offs deciding the Champions in sport. I was wondering what the opinions are of fellow Rugby League fans on the play-offs. Do you think play-offs are the best way to decide the champions or do you prefer whoever finishes top being champions? And what do you think of the current format? So feel free to voice your opinion again, say whether it has changed or if you missed the post last time, take this opportunity to give your opinion.
Personally I think play-offs are a great concept, sport is about peaking on the big occasion and beating your biggest rivals head to head when it matters.

Playoffs are an invention to keep people interested throughout the season. If there was no playoffs when would our interest in the season have finished. Basically once we were knocked out of the cup.
Now if you look at the winners of the GF I still think we are the only team that have won from third. So in all the other years the winners finished either first or second in the regular season. So bit of a ramble but if you don't finish first or second history shows you won't win the GF.

I wish football did Play offs as well(Premiership) This would make it so much better towards the season.

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In that case history shows that you might surely...

Which is why the Champions League is both effective, a huge revenue raiser and a bloody good advert for the sport.

I see no downsides to any play-off system = The best v the best.

Exactly.

The most lucrative and highest profile comp in Europe is the Champions "League". Yet it isn't a league at all, and most of the entrants aren't actually champions of anything. And then they have mini leagues so you can reach the final stages without even ever having played the vast majority of teams in the comp. Doesn't seem to bother most speccies in that sport, and nobody seems to have any trouble in considering the winners as champions.