The system forces tough decisions on game day. Leave it alone. None of it makes anything better, just different, why is everyone so determined to make things different when it's working? Just like baseball could have 3 game series instead of 7, but then it would favor strong starting pitchers and not deep teams. Better? or different?
There are things to overcome every week from all sorts of angles. this, the playoffs, division winners, records, ties, overtime, PI, replay etc and on and on. It just makes it different. For everything "solved" i can see 2 problems it creates. it doesn't make it more fair, it just shifts the "unfairness" to some other situation. This game isn't broken, yet. Quit trying to make it so. it's working.