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Here is the reasoning:

- most teams include a number of players of the team's home country, and many players from different countries.
- the existing rule is that: the more players from your home country, the more Fans will like your team (I don't really love this rule, but I can see its point).
- how about giving a "plus" to teams with a strong core of players from one country, regardless of the home country?

Example:

Team A is from USA and it has:
2 US players
1 Greek player
1 Lithuanian player
1 Spanish player
1 Chinese player
1 Argentinian player

Team B is from USA and it has:
2 US players
4 Greek players
1 Lithuanian
1 Spanish

In my idea, team B will have an advantage over team A (assuming all other conditions are equal) for the fact that it has a core of players of the same "school"/language/mentality.

What do you guys think about this?

i don't think that those teams get more appeal from the migrated or maybe international fans, if you look at Caspi for example one might be enough to capture the interest of those group. Also the german media rarely report about the NCAA BB, but then mostly about single athletes having two like Gonzaga nowadays didn't raised the attention a lot even when both are more promising german prospekt(and i don't like to use Nowe, cause he is a special case)

I could imagine that something would happen when you have 8-9 players like this, like an "exil" club(in germany we have some turkish sportsclubs) but even those loose the majority of fans through this specialisation.

Er... Maybe I wasn't clear, I am not speaking of an advantage in terms of Fans appreciation, but in terms of on-court performance.
It is more difficult to find chemistry when all players are from different countries, I think that that's undisputable

:)
I'm not into EPL enough to understand if you're being sarcastic or not...

Last edited by Stavrogin at 10/25/2011 1:13:22 PM

But you wouldn't have to.

Even if you're from Bahamas, you can have 4 Lithuanians in your team, no?

But you wouldn't have to.

Even if you're from Bahamas, you can have 4 Lithuanians in your team, no?

but since you bring up the number four as advategeous again, i like to tell you an example of my home town team back the days since the german leagues was a pure legionärs league(rare cases where you had more then one german player in the rotation, not so rare case they had none).

We had a team with four/five player from the former yugoslawia and 5 americans. And the team got problems cause the players from yugoslawia isolate them in the team cause they prefered to talk their home language and so on, while the americans did the same in english(which is a bit better cause most people can talk english even the guys from yugoslawia). After that season, they looked to have a mostly american team cause it is possible to integrate to them.

Which i mean is following, one single person is easily to integrated in a team, 3-4 for a dangerous, around 8-9 you maybe have a core group but they should talk a common language or one that is desirable to learn by the team(which mostly is the native language)

I see your point. Fair enough