RE: Rotating Divisions
I did this one a while ago. Figured I'd post in here:
The best option for scheduling is to use a unique “pod” system for scheduling. You have four groups of teams, 2 pods of 4 teams, and 2 pods of three teams. The groups of 4 are always in opposite divisions, as are the groups of 3. The groups of 3 switch “divisions” every other year, so that the divisions aren't static. Every crossover game in a year is against the teams in the group you are never with for a division.
Pods
Coast Pod___ Mid-Atlantic Pod
Wake______ Pittsburgh
NC ST______ Virginia Tech
UNC_______ Virginia (protected)
Duke_______ Syracuse
The below switch spots every year or every other year, whichever works best.
East Pod________ West Pod
Boston College__ Louisville
Georgia Tech____ Clemson
Miami__________ Florida St
The scheduling works like this.
If playing with 8 conference games
Coast and Mid-Atlantic Pods
Play each team in your pod every year, and play the three teams assigned that year from the rotating pod. Play two teams cross division one year, and then play the other two teams the next year. Or they can play one designated team each year, and play the other three teams every other year (note that Virginia and UNC would have to play every year, but the other matchups would rotate freely)
East and West Pods
Play each team in your pod every year and the four teams from the pod (Coast or Mid-Atlantic) your pod is assigned to play in rotation. Play two games cross division each year. Can either be play the three teams two out of every three years, or play one selected team every year and play the other two teams in opposite years.
To use an example from each set of pods, in this scenario, Louisville would play Clemson, Florida State and Boston College every season, and every other team every other year, or would play Clemson and Florida State every season, Miami, Georgia Tech, and Boston College two out of every three seasons, and play everyone else every other season. North Carolina would play NC State, Duke, Wake Forest, and Virginia every year, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Florida St, Miami, Clemson, and Boston College every other year, and Virginia Tech, Syracuse, and Pittsburgh every third year. Virginia Tech would play Pitt, UVA, and Syracuse every year, Louisville, Georgia Tech, Florida St, Miami, Clemson, and Boston College every other year, and play Wake, NC St, and Duke roughly twice every three years, but UNC only once every three years (due to the UNC/UVA series, this one gets a little tricky). The beauty is each group of pods could dictate their own scheduling rules cross pod and even switch them up on occasion as needed.
If playing with 9 conference games
* I realize nine games is off the table, but this was written a couple of years ago
Coast and Mid-Atlantic Pods
Play each team in your pod every year, and play the three teams assigned that year from the rotating pod. Play three games cross division each year, playing either every team three out of every four years, or playing two pre-selected teams each year, and the other two teams every other year. Something like this:
Teams____Rival 1____ Rival 2 ____Alternate
Wake____ Pitt_______ Cuse______ uva/tech
NC ST____VaTech____ Pitt_______ uva/cuse
UNC_____ UVA______ VaTech____ pitt/cuse
Duke_____Cuse_____ UVA_______ tech/pitt
Pitt______ Wake _____ NC ST_____ unc/duke
Cuse_____ Duke_____ Wake_____ unc/state
VaTech___ NC ST____ UNC_______ wake/duke
UVA____ UNC______ Duke______ wake/state
East and West Pods
Play each team in your pod every year, and the four teams from the pod that your pod is assigned to play in rotation (Coast or Mid-Atlantic), and play all three cross division teams each year.
To use an example from each set of pods, in this scenario Louisville would play Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and Boston College every season, and every other team every other season. Or North Carolina would play NC State, Duke, Wake, Virginia, and Virginia Tech every year, and every other school every other year. Again the beauty is each group of pods could dictate their own scheduling rules cross pod and even switch them up on occasion as needed, although the East/West teams have no need to change anything.
This alignment preserves rivalries, and has most everyone play everyone else at least every other season, with the only notable casualty being that in an 8 game schedule, Georgia Tech only gets to play Duke every other year as opposed to every season in terms of long standing rivalries. Not sure how that one flies with the principles involved. But even then, they get NC State and Wake Forest back on the schedule every other year for that same time period, so that's a wash, while Georgia Tech gets FSU back every year. Florida State plays its main rival every season, and its secondary rival plus its closest rival every other season. The Carolina schools all get to play each other every season again, while Syracuse and Pitt still play each other every season, as do Virginia and Virginia Tech, who all get to play the schools near them every other season. Finally every school gets to play a Florida team every year, a southern team (Clemson/Ga. Tech) every year, and play a game in either in North Carolina or Virginia/East) every year.
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2015 03:43 PM by adcorbett.)
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