ColonialBulldog wrote:BCPanther wrote:How is it an advantage when everybody gets a 'bye' at some point?
Well that's an easy one. Timing and opponent. A bye early in the season is less advantageous than a bye in the middle of the conference slate. Having Bradley as your only opponent in one week is more advantageous for a league contender than only having to play a bottom of the league team.
But I thought about it and the premise is off. If we keep the same schedule format of Tuesday/Wednesday and Saturday/Sunday, every team would necessarily have two byes. (Although there could be some manipulation with those late November/early December games. I wouldn't be surprised if the Valley went with a "5 games over two weeks" model. For example, you'd play Sun/Wed/Sat/Tues/Thurs. And at a minimum every team would have 4 games every two weeks. That doesn't actually seem so bad.
That's more or less the "playing more midweek games" option I mentioned for WBB/VB because of the geographic flexibility the league is fortunate to have. It takes a bit more adjustment than is apparent because you still have to sort out the combinations that would work, not blow up budgets, and fit it all into the calendar for every team, but it's doable and creates a much more competitively balanced schedule - albeit one that is more physically demanding of players.
Or you simply don't play every opponent twice and maintain a similar calendar structure.
