This is the highest thought ever, but is there a reason sports have to be played on a yearly basis. I'm just thinking considering that the playoffs are when most people pay attention to the sport what if they broke the season down into a Fall and Spring League. They could shorten the regular season to like 30 to 35 regular season games and then have 5 game playoff series each round for both halves. The added playoff games would offset the revenue lost by losing the regular season revenue. It would make the sport more of a true year round thing. Have each half run four months in full and then two month cushion in between.