Yep.
That's why in the NFL the "playoff" team with the better regular season record starts each game up 7-0.
I LOVED it when the NFL did that....to be more fair
Um, the two top teams in each league in the NFL get a bye. That's a huge advantage.
Winning your division should give you a nice advantage over a team that did not win their division. The current setup at least tries to address the silliness of the first 2 decades of Wild Cards where there was essentially no difference between a division winner and WC.
At least with a 1 game playoff, you quickly eliminate one of the teams that shouldn't be in the playoff to begin with and don't hurt the other playoff teams by making them wait around for long. Having the WC series be 3 or longer games would just mess up the rest of the playoffs too much. Plus elimination games are cool and you automatically get one in each league off the bat. Basically a permanent 163 game.