We have already got a 12-team baseball postseason, an NBA play-in spherical, a 12-team school 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 lately, will broaden once more quickly or each. Formulation 1, which for many years ran between 14 and 18 races per 12 months, is as much as 24 in 21 completely different nations.
So it’s not altogether shocking that each league, in every single place, is wanting so as to add extra.
The NCAA males’s basketball committee is voting this week on whether or not to broaden their event discipline from 68 to both 72 or 76 groups, and the ladies’s March Insanity discipline is anticipated to develop as nicely.
The NHL’s new collective bargaining settlement, formally ratified Tuesday, features a transfer to an 84-game common season beginning in 2026-27.
