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But why is variance a problem? I don't understand. It's only a problem if it creates an incentive for safe, conservative play, which is what we have now.
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It creates an unpredictable and unbalanced # of points in the system. When scoreboard watching you'll just hope every game goes to OT/SO. Its the reverse of what we have now, and you'll hear opinions that it invalidates a win. Or that the team that gets to OT still deserves something. I think it just takes one problem and flips it, creating new ones to solve the motivation issue.
I agree it creates incentive to finish in regulation or OT, but so does the Olympic system, without the random variance of what a game is "worth."