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In the hopes of sparking a conversation, I will add to my previous post...

I put the 13 week season suggestion out there, because I feel that it may help convince more users to sign up, and keep them interested once they do. I opted to sign up for this game instead of other basketball managers out there because the other basketball managers had stupidly long seasons (17 and 19 weeks). The steps suggested in the previous post to make 13 week seasons possible would result in less 'down-time' throughout the season for managers, with no mid-season break and also less time to wait for teams that finish 5th, 8th, or are eliminated early in the play-off rounds. This can in theory help keep new managers interested in the game. I'm sure that training speeds and clubs earnings/expenses could be adjusted with relative ease should a change to 13 week seasons eventuate.

I believe that the two-leg aggregate finals system wouldn't necessarily make the regular season less important; obtaining the #1 seed in your conference would still net you home court advantage in the single-game conference play-off rounds. It should however increase the suspense and excitement of the finals series, as a team that loses game one but has home court advantage for game two still has a good chance of chasing down the deficit and winning, as opposed to the current system where a team losing game one away will usually go on to lose the series due to having to play game three away also.

I have other ideas also. Would anyone be interested in a Europa League inspired second tier international competition, for those who finish runners-up in league or cup, and possibly other invites to make up the numbers? What about an option to allow smaller nations to switch to a 1-2-4-8 league pyramid system, which would see both league finalists promote? I'm just throwing ideas out here and seeing what sticks...

I think smaller nations should switch to a 1-1-2-2-4 structure. Maybe that could help.

Bumping this one more time, as if a BB were to read and like one of my suggestions now they'd have time to implement it for Season 33. If I can't spark a discussion this time, I'll just give up on this thread, even though I think I have made some decent suggestions.

I'm personally not too keen on a 1-1-2-2-4 structure, but perhaps the best solution is to leave it in the hands of a representative/s for each country to decide which structure works best for them, be it the 1-4-16-64 we have now, 1-3-9-27 with the losing finalists with the best regular season record getting a wildcard promotion, 1-2-4-8 with both league finalists promoting, or something different like the format Knecht suggests.

One GE change that would have to be made should a two-leg play-off system ever materialise is to disable the late-game fouling logic and extra time in the first leg, then only apply these factors based on the aggregate score and not the game score in the second leg. Which remind's me of some minor suggestions I'd like to make;

- Give us a tactical option to turn off late game fouling if our team is losing. Often times the fouls do more harm than good and some managers might feel that just playing normal defence will give them a better chance.

- An option in PL games to count games that are tied at the end of regulation time as draws?

Finally, regarding my second-tier B3 idea, the idea in my head is to have those who lose the qualifying round of the B3 proper transfer to this second-tier competition, with the winners of a qualifying round involving league runners-up, cup runners-up, and wildcard entries based on world ranking filling out the remaining spots. Like the B3 proper, this would be a 128 team tournament using the same format as the one previously suggested...

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 8/17/2015 7:45:16 AM

Just over a year on from when I first posted this. This thread didn't gain a great deal of traction before, but I personally still like all of these ideas that I posted. I've decided to bump this existing thread once more, instead of making a new one, to see if there's any more support for it now as opposed to then.

I'll admit that the 13 week season idea might be tough to implement for an ultimately small gain, but the B3 and league final ideas are ones that I believe can improve the fairness and/or excitement of the respective competitions, if they can be implemented.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 7/9/2016 8:50:21 AM