I'm going to argue that we don't have any sort of meaningful play during the last week of the season. Guys get benched, especially on good teams, even when they don't have injuries. That makes it tough because then we have essentially 5 weeks of playoffs. 1st WC, 2nd WC, LDS, LCS, and WS - and that is making the WS only a week.
It makes it difficult because I really don't think it makes sense to have 6 weeks on playoffs. We could also use the last week of the regular seasons stats as the "new" wildcard, without having a tie breaker. Then that leads to further tie breakers...it gets muddled to say the least.