League Season Schedule Poll - PLEASE VOTE

[TrailDucker]

Ok, with the NBA starting earlier this year it changes the amount of weeks the season will be. I have found two options for how to schedule this season and would like everyone's input. Feel free to ask questions or start a discussion about the pros and cons of each in the comments.

If you have another solution pick ""Other" and please elaborate in the comments.

THE DETAILS:
- The season is now 24 weeks long (October 17th - April 11th)
- One week in February (All-Star Week) is 2 weeks long but with a week's worth of games
- Last week is an extended week (10 days total)

OPTION 1:
15 Week Season
- Play everyone in your Conference once
- 1 Bye Week
- Regular Season ends January 28th
- Actual NBA trade deadline will occur during the first round of our playoffs. Our Deadline would need to be adjusted and probably will be during our playoffs.
- 2 Week Playoff matches (8 weeks for 23 weeks minimum total)
- Final can be longer as we would have that whole final extended week as extra
- We can skip the last few days of the season (when people begin sitting out) if desired

OPTION 2:
20 Week Season
- Play everyone in your Division twice
- Play everyone else in your Conference once
- 2 Bye Weeks
- Regular Season ends March 5th
- Actual NBA trade deadline is about a month before the end of our season (they moved it up this year). So our trade deadline will be before our playoffs start.
- 1 Week Playoff matches (4 weeks)
- Final will be 10 days
- We don't really have extra time to skip the final games of the season

[Deleted]

I see many people are voting for option one and I just thought that I'd voice an opinion on one of the details. I am not a fan of having our trade deadline occur during our playoffs. I strongly believe that trading should be locked and rosters should be frozen going into the post season at the very latest

[Munich Barons GM]

I'm with toronto here. The trade deadline should be before the playoffs. And i also hate option 1 cause non playoffteams would have their season ended in januar and would have an even longer offseason. And it's already long enough.
I don't count the stupid playing for a position thing for teams that are outside of the playoffs cause it doesn't count anyway.

[TrailDucker]

Let me make my case for Option 2:

It's strictly because of the NBA Trade Deadline. If we end the season in January the trade deadline will be somewhere in the first round of the playoffs. The trade deadline can dramatically change a player's value so we should allow a couple weeks at least for trades and waivers/free agents pick ups. That means it won't be until conference finals teams will be finalized. I'm not a fan of that. It especially would be frustrating if in the middle of the playoffs a productive player on your teams gets traded to a situation he won't be productive and it dramatically hinders your team and now you have to scramble to fix it.

Some people like the purity of playing everyone once. I get that, but playing everyone in your division twice is the best way to add games fairly. Every year the division change World Cup style so every year a division should have a team from all five "tiers" based on last year's record. Obviously teams change positions every year and bad teams become good and vise versa but that can't be planned for. It's also the whole reason we play.

Stepping down from my soap box

[TrailDucker]

And as I typed that Toronto and Munich beat me to it!