Scottish Premiership Champions Should Be Decided By A Play-Off

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.