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Cross Conference Games on neutral parquet

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326500.15 in reply to 326500.13
Date: 2/21/2025 3:51:58 AM
Merimen
III.2
Overall Posts Rated:
4545
Second Team:
XBS Somorja
You literally open the gates for mid season griefing this way.

Say you play your rival of whom you can assume his economy, can't be too bright. You set your ticket prices to max and send them to bankruptcy range.

Also with neutral court you make PR staff with spec obsolete.

I'm not saying it's optimal. But almost nothing is. Look at b3, you can have bad luck during season and you barely make it to PO because of that... then you play all your games away. Just because you lost to let's say TWT and Essec.

Sometimes life gives you lemons

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326500.17 in reply to 326500.1
Date: 2/21/2025 11:48:22 AM
Slavia TNL
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
33
Second Team:
Arsenal TNL
What about changing the HCA each season? E.g. in my league I have an opponent similarly strong in a long-term, but until this season, for 4 seasons in a row I had played him at home and thus beaten him.

Don't like the neutral arena suggestion, you still have many more "luck" dependencies in the schedule.

Last edited by martinv00 at 2/21/2025 11:48:37 AM

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326500.18 in reply to 326500.17
Date: 2/21/2025 3:20:10 PM
Mos Eisley Imperials
II.3
Overall Posts Rated:
160160
The HCA does get changed every season -- for odd numbered seasons, the Great 8 (red conference) plays at home first in IC play, and for even numbered season, the Big 8 (blue conference) plays at home first in IC play. There's a set fixture, in that teams are assigned a "draw number" within their conference, and then those draw numbers play in a set order of matches over the course of the season that is the same every season.

You've just been luckier than average, in getting draw numbers for you and the strong opponent in the other conference such that you were at home for four seasons in a row.