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326500.13 in reply to 326500.11
Date: 2/20/2025 6:22:57 PM
NakamichiDragons
II.3
Overall Posts Rated:
22982298
Second Team:
Little Computer People
Do you believe, the current schedule is better?

When it is possible to face 5-8 seed at home and no one is interested in because 1-4 seed easily wiped the floor with your team due to HCA?

Split the money, take (or reduce) the HCA … its not that bad 🤷‍♂️

founded in S3 IV.5 (34234) - returned in S28 IV.7
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326500.15 in reply to 326500.13
Date: 2/21/2025 3:51:58 AM
Merimen
II.1
Overall Posts Rated:
104104
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
NBBA
Overall Posts Rated:
215215
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.

From: Buero

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326500.19 in reply to 326500.16
Date: 4/4/2025 8:39:19 AM
Los de la Escalera
II.3
Overall Posts Rated:
416416
You are right.

It's fine as it is, we just need to build more resilience to frustration. In addition to the economic issues related to how ticket sales are distributed, there's also the problem of game immersion (why, if I'm playing at home, don't I get that competitive boost?). This is compounded by the strategic impoverishment when planning the season. You have the schedule from the beginning, and you can prepare to give a major scare to the top team that, perhaps, because they have home-court advantage, might relax during your game.