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re: Pods are Dumb
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:49 pm to southernboisb
Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:49 pm to southernboisb
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You gave this example. Let's choose Alabama since they're in slot #1.
Game 1 - Tennessee (Pod 1 member)
Game 2 - Auburn (Pod 1 member)
Game 3 - Vanderbilt (Pod 1 member)
Game 4 - Oklahoma (Pod 2 rival)
Game 5 - LSU (Pod 3 rival)
Game 6 - Georgia (Pod 4 rival)
If you have a 9 game conference schedule, you've filled out 2/3 of the Tide's opponents each year.
Interesting idea. Genuinely curious. How does this work with scheduling? Do they play the pod 2/3/4 “rival” every year? I’m not sure how that works for the all 16 teams play all 16 teams in a home and away format in a 4 year period. I definitely might not understand what your saying.
In the pod 1 example vs pod 2 example here is how I saw it working out.
Year 1 Pod 1 vs Pod 2 schedule
Bama vs OU, Bama vs Mizz
Year 2 Pod 1 vs Pod 2 schedule
Bama vs TX, Bama vs Ark.
Year 3 repeat year 1 schedule
I’m on my phone so I don’t want to extrapolate that schedule for Bama vs the other 2 pods but you get the idea. Bama vs other pods would be 3 traditional powers every year and 3 non traditional power teams every year
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Posted on 7/22/21 at 10:08 pm to GruvenDawg
How it works is each year you play your pod mates (3 games). You play your designated rival in the other pods (3 games). & then you pair up pods yearly (other 3 games).
This gives you a 9 game schedule where you know 6 of your opponents. The other 3 games are the members of your "paired pod" who isn't your rival.
This lets you play every school in 3 years & a full H/A rotation in 6. There's no way to visit every school H/A in 4 years WITHOUT losing rivalries/important games (or changing those games to being played every other year).
Now, to get the SECCG opponents, the "winner" of the paired pods is the contestants.
example
Year 1 - Pods A/B winner vrs. Pods C/D winner
Year 2 - Pods A/C winner vrs. Pods B/D winner
Year 3 - Pods A/D winner vrs. Pods B/C winner
This is an easy solution because each paired pod team has 7 common opponents on their schedule.
Let me know if I need to explain more.
This gives you a 9 game schedule where you know 6 of your opponents. The other 3 games are the members of your "paired pod" who isn't your rival.
This lets you play every school in 3 years & a full H/A rotation in 6. There's no way to visit every school H/A in 4 years WITHOUT losing rivalries/important games (or changing those games to being played every other year).
Now, to get the SECCG opponents, the "winner" of the paired pods is the contestants.
example
Year 1 - Pods A/B winner vrs. Pods C/D winner
Year 2 - Pods A/C winner vrs. Pods B/D winner
Year 3 - Pods A/D winner vrs. Pods B/C winner
This is an easy solution because each paired pod team has 7 common opponents on their schedule.
Let me know if I need to explain more.
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