Religation and Fluid Conferences

[phily915]

I am thinking of a way to crown a national championship with religation (similar to english premier league in soccer).

I was thinking of having the top 24 teams as independents/SEC and then use the remaining conferences in a certain order to establish the next best teams. So for example:

1. Independents (#1-12)
2. SEC (#13-24)
3. Big10 (#25-36)
4. Pac12 (#37-48)
5. BigXII (#49-60)
6. Big East (#61-72)
7. ACC (#73-84)
8. Mountain West (#85-96)
9. Sun Belt (#97-102)
10. WAC (#103-108)
11. Conference USA (#109-114)
12. MAC (#116-120)

So the top 8 conferences will have 12 teams in them a piece. The independents and SEC will feature the top 24 teams each year (The following years every conference will shift based on how they finished the previous year-you can decide that based on the bowls and there tie-ins). The independents and SEC will be the only 2 leagues jockeying for the bcs championship. Both conferences will have a conference championship, then each year the BCSchampionship game will tie-in the independent#1 vs. SEC#1!!

The bottom 2 teams from each league (minus the MAC) will then shift 1 conference lower. The top 2 teams of each league will then shift upwards (minus the independents since it is the highest). You can only shift once conference each year. Meaning, if you have an undefeated year as a MAC member you cannot jump CUSA and be in the WAC.

I think this would be cool to then start as a MAC team and work your way ALLLLL the way up to finally become an awesome team. Although, you could also have it a way that if a lower conference team plays a top team in a higher conference and wins that bowl game, then they can jump up. I have only begun to think this out.

Please help me think of some things I have forgot. I realize there will still be out of conference games, so you can designate some sort of importance to them (like a big OOC win may prevent religation the following year, idk).

[Sack Attack]

Looks good, but you're going to have to do away with divisions and lower the # of OOC games for this to work correctly. I'd also make it 12 conferences of 10 teams, for uniformity.

[Redacted01]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sack Attack

Looks good, but you're going to have to do away with divisions and lower the # of OOC games for this to work correctly. I'd also make it 12 conferences of 10 teams, for uniformity.

Why would you have to do that? It's simple enough to sort teams by conference standings at the end of the year.

But I do agree with the 12/10 team rule. It would make it much more even and fair.

[Sack Attack]

Quote: Originally Posted by dochalladay32

Why would you have to do that? It's simple enough to sort teams by conference standings at the end of the year. But I do agree with the 12/10 team rule. It would make it much more even and fair.

Well I guess divisions are a moot point when there's only 10 teams, but you'd want to make every conference operate on the Pac-10 model (9 conference games), so each team plays each other every season in order to avoid a situation like this:

Team A finished the season 0-8 in conference, and is set to be relegated.
Team B finished the season 1-7 in conference, and so they are safe until next season.

Team A and Team B never played during the season.

See where that could be an issue?

I like the setup otherwise though. I'd order the conferences by in-game prestige to help with recruiting and such.

[Redacted01]

Well he said he was moving 2 teams so no issue there haha. And there are other tiebreakers you could do.

10-team conferences makes that pointless, so hopefully OP will make the move...

[RebelHog]

Didn't need another conference alignment thread.

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...-you-make.html

[poopoop]

Are you sure you can set the Championship game to always have teams from two specific conferences? Otherwise I don't think this will work.

You'd end up in a bunch of situations where the team who won the 4th best conference and went undefeated would play against the team who won the 2nd best one.

Also it seems like it'd make more sense for independents to be the worst conference instead of the best.

[Redacted01]

Quote: Originally Posted by poopoop

Are you sure you can set the Championship game to always have teams from two specific conferences? Otherwise I don't think this will work. You'd end up in a bunch of situations where the team who won the 4th best conference and went undefeated would play against the team who won the 2nd best one. Also it seems like it'd make more sense for independents to be the worst conference instead of the best.

Yea, it seems like his system has more holes than swiss cheese reading through it again.

There is no problem with putting the 12 best teams in the independents. Don't know what the obsession is around here with people making the independents as bad as possible.

But I did miss the part where you said you'd have ind vs. SEC. You can't send an independent automatically to a BCS game and you can't pick who goes to the title game.