The North chairman has consulted with the league’s commission about a 20-round fixture and admits it may mean taking less money from the broadcasters in the next media rights deal.
The current five-year deal was for $1.25 billion.
"They [AFL] stay at 22 [rounds] because of the huge money they earn out of the media rights. So cut your cloth and say, 'OK, maybe we are not going to earn quite as huge an amount [but] we are still going to earn an enormous amount of money'," he said on Triple M.
Brayshaw believes the reduced season would mean each team plays each other once with room for three themed rounds.
"I have been saying this for a while - take two rounds off, make it 20 rounds, not 22. And you play every team once, so there is 17, you have an opening round, a rivalry round and a heritage round sprinkled in, which enables you to get Essendon playing Collingwood at least twice, the [West Australian] derbies, the [Adelaide] showdowns twice and you lock in all that.
"You lock in an opening round so that the established games like Carlton and Richmond, they happen every year. Outside of those three, every team plays each other once. It's 20 rounds, you easily get your two byes in if that's the AFLPA's wish."
Brayshaw argues such a chance would add integrity to the current system.
"You are saying to the broadcasters we are 18 games shy of where we are now so, therefore, you don't pay us as much as you have before…But it is still an extraordinary amount of money and we retain the integrity of our competition and our draw.
"If you continue to go down the path we are going down, that's why it [the fixture] gets questioned every year."
Meanwhile Kangaroos' great Wayne Carey has slammed the AFL Players Association, for the amount of time players have off in the post-season. He also took aim at the luxury of two byes during the year.
"I know the players association has been great and I was a massive push for it to become a stronger organisation when Andrew Demetriou took over ... but the players association have gone too far with what they want for the players, in terms of the rest," Carey said.
"I look at the clubs now. Some players are not getting back to training until December and stuff like that, they have got all this leave. Two byes a year is too much. There is no reason why you couldn't have one bye, especially if you shorten the season a little bit."
