How to deal with Home field advantage?

One league I'm in deals with the same question every single year: "Why do we have home field advantage points?"

We started using a couple of HFA points years ago, because games showed up as "home or away" on the randomly-generated schedule. So we thought it would make things more interesting: it becomes more difficult when you play in someone else's (digital) house.

But the same people do all they can every year to try and get it eliminated. Each year, however, the HFA rule is supported when our owners vote.

However, it turns out that this past season, one of HFA's most vocal opponents ended up winning the league, because one of his wins came by HFA and that squeaked him into the playoffs, where he subsequently won the whole thing. Without HFA, he would not have won. He's not quite as vocal an opponent of HFA anymore. "Hey, I won with the system that was in place."

But perhaps even more unexpected was the response from the owner whose team would have won the title if there were no HFA points. He's "still a fan of home field advantage" despite the fact that its use cost him the trophy this year. Pretty impressive stance, if you ask me.

I like the HFA points, but I think they make much more sense in the playoffs than in the regular season. Maybe just a tiebreaker for most of the year, but something to denote regular season success into the
postseason, I think, is merited.