What if instead of our 16 game + playoff format we played each season with a world cup sort of format:
8 groups of four teams (already done) each play each other once with the best two teams in each group advancing to the next round, which becomes a 1-off elimination
Groups would change/rotate so that talent was evenly spread, giving weak teams a shot at making the next round. I dunno if anyone else already posted this but it's certainly viable. I guess it would suck for crappy teams who would only get to play 3 games a season.
Also based on the soccer model, we could have relegation of some sort, although talent is so evenly spread in the league that it would be hard to justify this... although maybe a minor league starting up would be a cool idea to make this happen.