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Post by sirroger on May 26, 2014 13:23:59 GMT
The IPL (Indian Premier League) consists of 8 cricket teams.
Each team play 14 games, with the top 4 going through to the play-offs.
The competition has now reached that stage, but rather than top v fourth & second v third, it's slightly different.
Basically, the top two play each other, with the winner going through to final.
Third plays fourth with the losing waving goodbye.
The loser from the first play-off then meets the winner of the second to decide the second finalist.
I like it, (the format too) and could see it being introduced in say, the Premier League in darts.
Thoughts?
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Post by gazz on May 26, 2014 13:34:55 GMT
I like that, and I think you might be right about Barry Hearn adopting that for the PL Darts. I do think the play-offs, while a good thing for keeping many teams in the hunt for promotion and sometimes producing an unlikely winner, does have its times that are a little hard to swallow (*cough* Burnley in 1994). They finished 16 points short of automatic promotion that season, we missed out by 4! That's not taking into account the fact our goal difference was only 3 less than Port Vale, Burnley's was 12!
To say it's a flawed system is an understatement.
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Post by sirroger on May 26, 2014 13:43:51 GMT
In this year's IPL for example, the team that finished top have had a great and consistent run of games. The team in fourth scraped through, lost more games(obviously) and on the usual format would have played the top team in the semi final. In a one off game of T20 anything can happen and the fourth spot team could beat the top team. Under the IPL format, a defeat for the top team doesn't mean goodbye, they have a 'second bite of the cherry', the second team too with same scenario applying.
I think it's much fairer, especially if there's hefty difference in points between top/second and third/fourth.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2014 14:46:47 GMT
They do it in a similar way with the AFL finals but with the top 8. The teams that finish higher up the league get the home advantage.
It's similar in the A League as well although that's with the top 6 (out of 10!).
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Post by archie on May 26, 2014 17:26:51 GMT
Similar philosophy in our Rugby League top flight.
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Post by sirroger on May 26, 2014 18:41:44 GMT
@ downy - cheers, thanks for that.
@ archie - I had no idea.
Infact, I have no idea about rugby at all other than they use an odd shaped ball and that Sale 'f***** up' the pitch at EP.
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Post by archie on May 27, 2014 7:43:27 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 27, 2014 12:45:07 GMT
The system in the NHL is top Vs bottom but over 7 games. 1st Vs 8th, 2nd. Vs 7th etc the higher ranked team will play games 1 & 2 at home, games 3 & 4 away and should further games be needed game 5 will be at home, game 6 away and a final game 7 at home.
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Post by archie on May 28, 2014 14:43:10 GMT
One criticism I'd have of the IPL playoffs is that the venue is decided beforehand - I'm guessing to the highest bidder - rather than being the choice of the more successful team. In today's match, the King's XI, who finished top of the league, had to go to Kolkata, who finished second. Sure enough, Kolkata won and go through to the final.
Chennai who finished third are playing their eliminator against Mumbai (Fourth) in Mumbai and the final eliminator is also in Mumbai.
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Post by sirroger on May 30, 2014 19:11:29 GMT
Glad to see the sides that finished first and second in the league made it through the play-offs to the final on Sunday and that it will be played on a neutral ground too.
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