Instead of every side playing 8 games, make them play 7 or they play everyone once.
ie sixers only play thunder once, renegades play stars once etc....
means we lose 4 games
Id have a top 3 finals (for an 8 team comp)
Team to make it to No1 - automatically gets into a best of 3 finals series
team 2 ( home ground) v team 3 play to the right to get into the final, possibly make this a best of 3 as well.
we potentially gain back 2 to 4 games in the finals