Aye- it's the top part of fan survey. A few seasons back, I finished 12-10 and got to the finals, losing in 3 games, and still only had 2.5 balls on that category for the season. It's been much different the past few years despite the same final result. It seems a good record matters the most for that category. I'd imagine eventually there will be some form of boost for making the playoffs, but the glitch they've fixed for now is to mitigate some of the advantage offered for coming in 5th place, which while it sucks for a good team (losing ticket revenue) it ultimately is a good idea. Something just needs to change, like you said, where maybe the ticket revenue is multiplied, as real life playoff tickets are higher than regular season.