whataboutbob
Well-Known Member
I think if the league wants to get down to 12 teams in the Premier for 2006-2007, to keep it fair for all Premier teams, they must bite the bullet and play a 1-time 26 game schedule. Every team plays each team twice.
The bottom 3 teams are automatically relegated to Div 1
The 4th from last has a one-game playoff against the loser of a one-game playoff between the two top Div 1 teams.
After that, Premier plays a 22-game schedule.
The league should have a HUGE kickoff to the season by way of a 3-game Labour Day long weekend for all the Premier teams at one site (1 game a day). Give it a tourney atmosphere; beer gardens, billboard schedule, 3 fields going at 1 hour split schedules. Obviously not all the teams will play everyone; that is not the purpose. Just have the regular schedule for the 1st 3 games of the season.
The benefits are:
-high profile event (good fan draw/newspaper coverage)
-the league can make some serious money (14 teams mandatory)
-all teams will be able to get a good look at the rest of the league at once.
-referees will be better scrutinized by league officials
-get in games while the weather is relatively good
This will take the presure off the field scheduler and the getting all 26 games in will be little easier than originally anticipated.
If this works, do it every year during the Labour Day weekend.
The bottom 3 teams are automatically relegated to Div 1
The 4th from last has a one-game playoff against the loser of a one-game playoff between the two top Div 1 teams.
After that, Premier plays a 22-game schedule.
The league should have a HUGE kickoff to the season by way of a 3-game Labour Day long weekend for all the Premier teams at one site (1 game a day). Give it a tourney atmosphere; beer gardens, billboard schedule, 3 fields going at 1 hour split schedules. Obviously not all the teams will play everyone; that is not the purpose. Just have the regular schedule for the 1st 3 games of the season.
The benefits are:
-high profile event (good fan draw/newspaper coverage)
-the league can make some serious money (14 teams mandatory)
-all teams will be able to get a good look at the rest of the league at once.
-referees will be better scrutinized by league officials
-get in games while the weather is relatively good
This will take the presure off the field scheduler and the getting all 26 games in will be little easier than originally anticipated.
If this works, do it every year during the Labour Day weekend.