Harvester the ideas of others - Pointless Playoffs

[madunit]

Two moronic idea's have been posted already recently about playoff games which are utterly f**king stupid.

But what if we combined with the even more absurd Super 8's concept in Superleague and have playoffs everywhere.

So the structure would be like this
Usual 26 Rounds
Then have a super 16's where each team plays each other side a further two more times, home and away.
After Super 16's is done, we start from the bottom and have playoffs to determine each position.

So, first play offs are for 16th place. Teams 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th play in a finals system where they play each other twice, home and away, the bottom placed team for those games is crowed 16th place.

Then we move on to the play off for 15th, where teams 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th compete using the same structure as above.

We keep going all they way until we determine the fifth placed side.

Then we have a finals play off with the top 4 sides.

Each side play each other three times, home, away and at a neutral venue.

Then once those games are over we will have our genuine top 4.

Then we play finals footy.

Week 1
A - 1 v 4
B - 2 v 3
Week 2
C - Loser A v Loser B
D - Winner A v Winner B
Week 3
E - Winner C v Loser D
Week 4
Grand FInal
Winner D v Winner E

Loser C v Loser E to determine 3rd and 4th placed sides.

THEN....

We work back down through the system to determine all the positions up to 5th, this way we can determine for certain that each side is properly placed on the ladder.

Discuss.

 

[myrrh ken]

off season is here for some

 

[Whoosh]

172 week season. Has some merit......

 

[madunit]

Pffft.

Every club should play at least 60 games. 40 of them should be utterly pointless.

We need to do as the British do and devalue the f**k out of the product.

 

[madunit]

172 week season. Has some merit......

Don't be rational.

You're crushing the dream.

 

[siv]

15 rounds

Then why not have the Top 8 play 7 more rounds

Thats a nice 22

 

[TheVelourFog]

Play one team 24 times each year rotating through a 15 year schedule

16th year we play finals

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The only thing we should copy from SL is the free play rule.

 

[unforgiven]

Two moronic idea's have been posted already recently about playoff games which are utterly f**king stupid.

But what if we combined with the even more absurd Super 8's concept in Superleague and have playoffs everywhere.

So the structure would be like this
Usual 26 Rounds
Then have a super 16's where each team plays each other side a further two more times, home and away.
After Super 16's is done, we start from the bottom and have playoffs to determine each position.

So, first play offs are for 16th place. Teams 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th play in a finals system where they play each other twice, home and away, the bottom placed team for those games is crowed 16th place.

Then we move on to the play off for 15th, where teams 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th compete using the same structure as above.

We keep going all they way until we determine the fifth placed side.

Then we have a finals play off with the top 4 sides.

Each side play each other three times, home, away and at a neutral venue.

Then once those games are over we will have our genuine top 4.

Then we play finals footy.

Week 1
A - 1 v 4
B - 2 v 3
Week 2
C - Loser A v Loser B
D - Winner A v Winner B
Week 3
E - Winner C v Loser D
Week 4
Grand FInal
Winner D v Winner E

Loser C v Loser E to determine 3rd and 4th placed sides.

THEN....

We work back down through the system to determine all the positions up to 5th, this way we can determine for certain that each side is properly placed on the ladder.

Discuss.

Sounds like Baseketball

 

[user_nat]

This idea is a good start, but I think you need to fit in state of origin on at least 1 stand alone weekend per month.

 

[_snafu_]

Sounds like Baseketball

More like topball.

 

[TheDalek079]

if a moderator creates a shit thread does it get moved to the cave?

 

[POPEYE]

I want 16 rounds of proper footy, 1 only Origin game in the interval, 16 more rounds of proper footy and the best 2 play a Grand Final . . . f**k anything else

 

[T-Boon]

The only thing we should copy from SL is the free play rule.

WTF is that? Actually, don't worry I am going to go google it. Sound's T-Boon'ish.

 

[T-Boon]

172 week season. Has some merit......

Sounds like major league baseball. 172 rounds at least.
They could play 3 times a week. Games played in 20 minutes a halves.
Would be good coin for all.

 

[Shorty]

if a moderator creates a shit thread does it get moved to the cave?

No.

 

[T-Boon]

The only thing we should copy from SL is the free play rule.

So I just looked up this SL rule and as I suspected I love it.

How freaking slow is the NRL at bringing great stuff like this in. "oh my god, its going to destroy the fabric of the game!!!!"

 

[East Coast Tiger]

So I just looked up this SL rule and as I suspected I love it.

How freaking slow is the NRL at bringing great stuff like this in. "oh my god, its going to destroy the fabric of the game!!!!"

Apart from anything else, it removes the controversy over ruling on advantage. But that's not even the best part.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Should be a Top 5.

 

[wittyfan]

Two moronic idea's have been posted already recently about playoff games which are utterly f**king stupid.

But what if we combined with the even more absurd Super 8's concept in Superleague and have playoffs everywhere.

So the structure would be like this
Usual 26 Rounds
Then have a super 16's where each team plays each other side a further two more times, home and away.
After Super 16's is done, we start from the bottom and have playoffs to determine each position.

So, first play offs are for 16th place. Teams 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th play in a finals system where they play each other twice, home and away, the bottom placed team for those games is crowed 16th place.

Then we move on to the play off for 15th, where teams 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th compete using the same structure as above.

We keep going all they way until we determine the fifth placed side.

Then we have a finals play off with the top 4 sides.

Each side play each other three times, home, away and at a neutral venue.

Then once those games are over we will have our genuine top 4.

Then we play finals footy.

Week 1
A - 1 v 4
B - 2 v 3
Week 2
C - Loser A v Loser B
D - Winner A v Winner B
Week 3
E - Winner C v Loser D
Week 4
Grand FInal
Winner D v Winner E

Loser C v Loser E to determine 3rd and 4th placed sides.

THEN....

We work back down through the system to determine all the positions up to 5th, this way we can determine for certain that each side is properly placed on the ladder.

Discuss.

I think you're onto something!

Also I thought that nothing could ever beat the McIntyre system but the Super 8 system is sublime!