Showing posts with label Simple Idea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simple Idea. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Simple Idea #4: Give Certain Conferences two automatic bids to basketball tournament

With the system right now only the winner of each conference's post season tournament (excluding Ivy League that uses their regular season champion) gets an automatic bid for the NCAA Division Basketball Tournament. This means that except for the very few conferences that use the regular season to determine which teams qualify for their playoff, the regular season means nothing. The Big Ten, ACC, SEC, Big East, Big 12, and Mountain West should all have two AQ. The Pac-12 sucks at basketball so it makes sense that they shouldn't get an extra bid and the Mountain West is year in and year out a solid conference. Even though the winner of each of these conferences regular season already makes the tournament it would be a nice rule just in case a team has a bad non-conference season and a bad tournament. For league's that are divided between two divisions the winner of each one would play the other in a one off game before the tournament. In addition to this every other conference would have there AQ determined by their regular season. They would still be free to host a post season tournament as a way of helping teams make the national tournament.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Simple Ideas #1 and #2: FIFA adopts White Flag Rule and Unplayable Injury Rule

If you do not know FIFA only allows 3 substitutions for league matches and 7 for friendlies. How many players a team has on the bench is determined by their governing body but it is usually 7 for most major competitions. This is a good rule in a normal game because a team has a great advantage by being in better shape and the manager has much less room for error when making a substitution than when he is unlimited ones. This proposition would change the rule slightly. If a team already uses its 3 substitutions and one of their players gets an injury so severe there is no chance they can play like a extremely broken leg, heart attack, etc., they can be replaced. This is fair because a manager cannot predict an injury to  happen. Some may say that a manager should keep an extra substitute on the bench in case of this but what if by some chance they have two severe injuries in one game.

The next change is the white flag rule that can be used in games that are in the first half of the season and in certain games in the second half. Games in the second half that could use this rule would be games between two teams that have cleared relegation as well as being eliminated from Champions' League contention. If a team is getting blown out they can use the white flag rule to allow them to do a wholesale lineup change. All players that get subbed in must be under 21 years old. Both teams must agree to the white flag rule and there is one other case where the rule may be used. If both teams have qualified for Champions League but are eliminated from title contention they may use the rule.