Comments for The Home Of The NHL Realignment Project http://www.tomfulery.com Endless Possibilities. Zero Consensus. Tue, 07 May 2013 07:04:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on An Illustrated History of the NHL by Ila http://www.tomfulery.com/2012/04/09/an-illustrated-history-of-the-nhl/#comment-84272 Ila Tue, 07 May 2013 07:04:13 +0000 http://www.tomfulery.com/?p=503#comment-84272 Hello colleagues, pleasant article and good urging commented at this place, I am truly enjoying by
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]]> Comment on Oh, You Want a RADICAL Realignment? by Josh http://www.tomfulery.com/2013/02/27/oh-you-want-a-radical-realignment/#comment-84238 Josh Mon, 06 May 2013 23:13:53 +0000 http://www.tomfulery.com/?p=787#comment-84238 What about seeding pairs instead of rivalry pairs? In the NFL, each team always plays the other teams in its conference that finished with the same divisional positioning the previous year. If we use that method for this proposed NHL realignment, you’d have 3 “rivalry” pairs. For example, the teams that finish 1st in their conferences play an extra home-and-home amongst each other the following season, the teams that finish 2nd likewise, etc.

Such a flexible re-adjustment mechanism for the rivalry pairings would:
-Maintain an 82-game season.
-Encourage rivalries to naturally develop among teams competing at the same level over a few years.
-Reward quality play with quality match-ups. Top teams will often meet in the final four and it would be awesome to see extra revenge match-ups the following year. This would be better for fans for obvious reasons, and better for owners because they’d be rewarded for icing a quality team with more headline opponents and better-quality entertainment in their building!
-Balance out the league a bit so you don’t always have a strong team beating up on a weak rival. Teams will probably complain about the system being unfair or biased if they are guaranteed extra games against a much stronger/weaker opponent.
-Provide an objective standard for changing match-ups, so you don’t have to make arbitrary changes if teams relocate or if Detroit makes a fuss about being a model franchise that continually gets shafted.

Most of your (awesome) realignment proposals have emphasized historical or regional (pods upon pods) rivalries to sort out scheduling challenges, and while those have merit I don’t recall you ever considering a system like this one that would dynamically encourage rivalries based on quality of play. Thoughts?

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]]> Comment on NHL Realignment – Do It Yourself Map Kit by AgentJ http://www.tomfulery.com/2013/03/24/nhl-realignment-do-it-yourself-map-kit/#comment-80288 AgentJ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:22:48 +0000 http://www.tomfulery.com/?p=803#comment-80288 The first:
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]]> Comment on NHL Realignment Project – If I Were King of North America by http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/member/39957/ http://www.tomfulery.com/2011/05/26/nhl-realignment-project-if-i-were-king-of-north-america/#comment-79443 http://community.cecid.hku.hk/index.php/member/39957/ Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:11:00 +0000 http://www.tomfulery.com/?p=51#comment-79443 Good post. I learn something new and challenging on sites
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]]> Comment on Realigning the NHL the Right Way by David Burnett http://www.tomfulery.com/2013/03/08/nhl-realignment-has-happened-this-final-proposal-is-a-few-hours-late/#comment-79059 David Burnett Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:41:51 +0000 http://www.tomfulery.com/?p=793#comment-79059 I like the 32 teams with pods concept. I would add rather than using pods , do what the NFL would do have all 4 1′s playing 3 Home and away series and the same with 2 3 ,… 8. That way best teams play against best teams and worst play against worst teams. Oh and another idea, which I got from Damien Cox from the Toronto Star have the reaming 16 non play off teams play a one and done series to determine the draft selection order like an ncaa region brackets, 1 vs 16, 8 vs 9, etc

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