Post by Miege22 on Nov 4, 2023 10:51:15 GMT -5
Hey everyone, I threw this out in the discord, and I'm posting here for everyone. I think it would be a cool idea to add an in-season tournament to our league the way the NBA is doing. We actually wouldn't need to change anything. Here's what I'm thinking...
GROUP PLAY
We would use the divisions as our groups. The first round of division games all happen by week 7, so we would use the first round as our "in-season tournament" games. Like the NBA is doing, these would also still count towards regular season standings. The top-2 in each division would move onto the knockout round (in the event of any ties, we would use head-to-head record).
KNOCKOUT ROUND
The knockout rounds would take place in January (we will aim to start in the 2nd week of January to avoid the weirdness of New Year's scheduling... this season that would mean weeks 12-14). We would use World Cup style seeding and randomly partner up divisions. Let's just say, as an example, the North and Midwest are partners and the Southeast and Pacific are partners. Seeing would look like this:
North #1
Midwest #2
Pacific #1
Southeast #2
Midwest #1
North #2
Southeast #1
Pacific #2
So the quarters would be week 12, semis in week 13, and championship in week 14. Now, we wouldn't need to change the schedule at all, we would simply have those involved in the knockout rounds playing in two matches that week, with the tourney games being scored manually via excel (and I can post after each day - shoutout to MemphisGM for the idea).
We can track this for fun this year, so everyone can get the idea of how it works, then I can bring to the league for a vote this summer to officially add it. What does everyone think?
GROUP PLAY
We would use the divisions as our groups. The first round of division games all happen by week 7, so we would use the first round as our "in-season tournament" games. Like the NBA is doing, these would also still count towards regular season standings. The top-2 in each division would move onto the knockout round (in the event of any ties, we would use head-to-head record).
KNOCKOUT ROUND
The knockout rounds would take place in January (we will aim to start in the 2nd week of January to avoid the weirdness of New Year's scheduling... this season that would mean weeks 12-14). We would use World Cup style seeding and randomly partner up divisions. Let's just say, as an example, the North and Midwest are partners and the Southeast and Pacific are partners. Seeing would look like this:
North #1
Midwest #2
Pacific #1
Southeast #2
Midwest #1
North #2
Southeast #1
Pacific #2
So the quarters would be week 12, semis in week 13, and championship in week 14. Now, we wouldn't need to change the schedule at all, we would simply have those involved in the knockout rounds playing in two matches that week, with the tourney games being scored manually via excel (and I can post after each day - shoutout to MemphisGM for the idea).
We can track this for fun this year, so everyone can get the idea of how it works, then I can bring to the league for a vote this summer to officially add it. What does everyone think?