The Scottish Premiership Champions Should Be Decided By A Play-Off.
I support a 4 team play-off with semi-finals, and a final, to decide the Scottish Premiership champions.
The 4 teams would be the top 4 sides of the regular season.
Semi-finals format.
1st would play 4th.
2nd would play 3rd.
Final format.
There then would be a final between the semi-final winners.
Home advantage in the semi-finals and final would go to the participating side who was highest in the regular season.
I would say the play-offs should only decide the champions, so a team could jump up to top, from the play-offs.
But the side who finished top in the regular season would still be guaranteed of second place, even if knocked out in the semi-finals.
There would be no 3rd or 4th place play-off.
Second place in the play-off would not make a side runner-up, if they were the 3rd or 4th placed side in the regular season.
The team could only move up the European placings by winning the final.
To those who say play-offs have not been done before;
I would point out;
A) The Scottish league champions were decided by a play-off in the 1904-05 season, when Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers were equal on points.
B) The SPFL have had play-offs to decide promotion and relegation for years.
C) The EFL have had promotion play-offs for decades.
D) There have been lots of rugby union, and rugby league play-offs to decide title champions for years.
The main purpose of the play-off system would be;
1) Guarantee a final-day decider every season.
2) Increase TV ratings.
3) Therefore increase TV revenue.
4) Increase the chance of a non-Old Firm team winning the title.
5) Creating a more competitive league.
This would end the nonsense of the league being decided basically by December, or February.
