Ok I have been thinking about this for a few days.
Momentum in the 2013 season has ground down, and its not something I want to happen in 2014. So I am going to propose quite a drastic change to the season. Everyone is free to comment, but ideally I want things decided by the start of February.
1 - Coaches can play anybody they like any time, and in any order. Only exclusion no coach and team, may meet again, unless they have played at least THREE other coaches and teams in-between.
2 - Play-off games will be decided as follows. Depending on a teams position in the league, the top six teams are seeded 1-6. Seeds 3 and 6 Play, seeds 4 and 5 Play, with loser eliminated. Seed 1 then plays the lowest placed remaining seed, and seed 2 plays the other remaining seed, with the loser eliminated. Then the two remaining seeds meet in the championship game. (aka NFL Conference Post-season.)
3 - The leagues placing will be determined as follows. Wins count as 30 points, Draws 10 Points, Defeats 1 Point. You score an mean average of all points scored for games to rounded up to 1 decimal place (i.e 4 wins 2 draws 3 defeats is 103 points over 9 games. Mean average scored is 11.4 recurring which is 11.5.) Second tiebreaker is Touchdowns for, third tiebreaker is cumulative score differential, and final tiebreaker is games won.
4 - To be considered for a play-off seeding a coach and team MUST have played in 5 games over the course of the season.
5 - Main season to run from February 1st until October 31st 2014.
The benefits to running a less structured season are that players are more free to play as and when they can. People can join the club mid-way through the year and still get involved, and we do not suffer fixture backlog. My fears of people picking their opponents to play a weaker opponent early etc, have been removed after seeing the effect of inducements and star-players, so a team with a lower team value, isn't as hampered against a higher team value one, as much as I thought.
Momentum in the 2013 season has ground down, and its not something I want to happen in 2014. So I am going to propose quite a drastic change to the season. Everyone is free to comment, but ideally I want things decided by the start of February.
1 - Coaches can play anybody they like any time, and in any order. Only exclusion no coach and team, may meet again, unless they have played at least THREE other coaches and teams in-between.
2 - Play-off games will be decided as follows. Depending on a teams position in the league, the top six teams are seeded 1-6. Seeds 3 and 6 Play, seeds 4 and 5 Play, with loser eliminated. Seed 1 then plays the lowest placed remaining seed, and seed 2 plays the other remaining seed, with the loser eliminated. Then the two remaining seeds meet in the championship game. (aka NFL Conference Post-season.)
3 - The leagues placing will be determined as follows. Wins count as 30 points, Draws 10 Points, Defeats 1 Point. You score an mean average of all points scored for games to rounded up to 1 decimal place (i.e 4 wins 2 draws 3 defeats is 103 points over 9 games. Mean average scored is 11.4 recurring which is 11.5.) Second tiebreaker is Touchdowns for, third tiebreaker is cumulative score differential, and final tiebreaker is games won.
4 - To be considered for a play-off seeding a coach and team MUST have played in 5 games over the course of the season.
5 - Main season to run from February 1st until October 31st 2014.
The benefits to running a less structured season are that players are more free to play as and when they can. People can join the club mid-way through the year and still get involved, and we do not suffer fixture backlog. My fears of people picking their opponents to play a weaker opponent early etc, have been removed after seeing the effect of inducements and star-players, so a team with a lower team value, isn't as hampered against a higher team value one, as much as I thought.
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