I would prefer a straight seeded tournament. That said, there's no overwhelming unfairness in the current system. You can see a situation where, for example, a team is in 2nd in its division with a 12-4 record unfairly gets homefield over a division winner with an 11-5 record.
Why? Because the team with the 11-5 record was in a divison with two other 11-5 teams and an 8-8 team. The 12-4 team had one team that won its division at 13-3, and two teams that were 5-11. It also faced a crappy division in the other conference, so it's schedule was much weaker, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, not going to get excited about this either way.
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