I don't know if I've seen this before, but how about move both Detroit and Columbus to the Eastern Conference? I know that will cause the conferences to be off balance (17 to 13), but then allow 9 teams to make it from the East and 7 from the West, sending the 9th place Eastern team to play the 1st place Western team in the playoffs.
Additionally, the scheduling would be unbalanced, so there's another hurdle there. On top of that, if Phoenix moves to an eastern time zone, then you'd have another issue.
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