Wednesday, February 27, 2008

League News

Last night, two ideas from the imaginary suggestions box were denied by the commissioner.

Currently, the regular season has very little meaning at all considering all eight teams get entry to the playoffs. Aside from the fact that the bottom two teams are weaker, there really is no reward for finishing the regular season in 1st or 2ND place. A bye-week for the one and two seeds was suggested and rejected. So was the idea of making the post-season more exclusive. While giving everyone a chance to win it all, makes for an interesting post-season, having a playoff cut-off would be more authentic.

The second denied suggestion involved the tail end of games; crunch time. As of now, only the final two minutes of each half are stop time. This rule can be very detrimental to a trailing team in the final two minutes of a game. For example, in a game this season, there was a foul called against a team trailing by under 6 points with about 3:55 on the clock. It took the refs a full 50 seconds to get the foul registered into the books and to get the ball inbounded. That's almost a full minute lost for the trailing team. If stop time for the 2ND half and 2ND half only, would start in the final FIVE minutes of each game, it would enable a more basketball-like crunch time. For a league that uses several NBA rules, one cannot look at this suggestion as far-fetched. Unfortunately, this idea was rejected in the respect of game length. "We would be here until 11:30 at night," said the commissioner. There were no further suggestions made that could cater to the commissioner's denials.

4 comments:

Thomas Sweeney said...

Tyranny!

LBJ said...

There should be a board of commissioners with each team sending a representative to a meeting at the beginning and end of each season so suggest ideas and make plans for the next season. Or something.

Thomas Sweeney said...

That's a good call. A tribune of sorts. Maybe even an oligarchy.

James Miller said...

"Just my thoughts ladies and gentlemen...just what i was feelin at the time"