There are generally 4 full conferences in Naismith DIII. 3 of them have, for the most part, decided to take part in an non-conference challenge.
- I have two possible templates for how the challenge would be set up. Both would be pretty simple to do - everyone would just need to schedule games.
- In both templates, teams are assigned a seed based on their relative RPI in the conference (we do this in Iba DII with CVAC/Heartland Challenge, it works very well - and ranking teams by any other method seems to fall apart)
- One template has every team participating in "one" challenge game every non-conf. The other template has every team participating in "two" games.
Template 1
(remember what I said above - teams are ranked by their relative RPI within the conference)
(lets say we do this weeks #5 through #10 - to give teams a chance to begin to improve in non-conf and get settled)
There are a total of 18 Games (3 per day) with every team playing 1 game. I understand CCIW has a ghost ship, we can work around that, or just not play that particular game. I like this template because
every team only has to play one game. The position of the 3 conferences in the template will rotate every season.
If it seems a little confusing, I generally set the schedules and site-mail everyone, so it shouldn't be a problem. If someone needs to set a game for a different week, that's not usually an issue either.
Week 5
#12 CCIW at #12 CUNY
#11 CUNY at #12 Freedom
#11 Freedom at #11 CCIW
Week 6
#10 Freedom at #10 CCIW
#9 CCIW at #10 CUNY
#9 CUNY at #9 Freedom
Week 7
#8 CCIW at #8 Freedom
#7 Freedom at #8 CUNY
#7 CUNY at #7 CCIW
Week 8
#6 CCIW at #6 CUNY
#5 CUNY at #6 Freedom
#5 Freedom at #5 CCIW
Week 9
#4 Freedom at #4 CCIW
#3 CCIW at #4 CUNY
#3 CUNY at #3 Freedom
Week 10
#2 CCIW at #2 Freedom
#1 Freedom at #2 CUNY
#1 CUNY at #1 CCIW
Template #2
The benefit to this is that it requires less weeks. The set-up of the schedule is also simpler. However, every team has to play 2 games in the challenge.
Week 7
#12 CUNY at #12 Freedom
#11 Freedom at #12 CUNY
#10 CUNY at #10 Freedom
#9 Freedom at #9 CUNY
#8 CUNY at #8 Freedom
#7 Freedom at #7 CUNY
#6 CUNY at #6 Freedom
#5 Freedom at #5 CUNY
#4 CUNY at #4 Freedom
#3 Freedom at #3 CUNY
#2 CUNY at #2 Freedom
#1 Freedom at #1 CUNY
Week 8
#12 CCIW at #12 CUNY
#11 CUNY at #11 CCIW
# 10 CCIW at #10 CUNY
# 9 CUNY at #9 CCIW
# 8 CCIW at #8 CUNY
#7 CUNY at #7 CCIW
#6 CCIW at #6 CUNY
#5 CUNY at #5 CCIW
#4 CCIW at #4 CUNY
#3 CUNY at #3 CCIW
#2 CCIW at #2 CUNY
#1 CUNY at #1 CCIW
Week 9
#12 Freedom at #12 CCIW
#11 CCIW at #11 Freedom
#10 Freedom at #10 CCIW
#9 CCIW at #9 Freedom
#8 Freedom at #8 CCIW
#7 CCIW at #7 Freedom
#6 Freedom at #6 CCIW
#5 CCIW at #5 Freedom
#4 Freedom at #4 CCIW
#3 CCIW at #3 Freedom
#2 Freedom at #2 CCIW
#1 CCIW at #1 Freedom
I like template #1 better because
- each team is only responsible for 1 game
- less games to schedule
- the three biggest games are on week 10
template #2 is only better because it's a "simpler" schedule....however, it's probably going to be a little tough to schedule all those games.
What do yall think? Please chime in.....Those in the CUNY, CCIW, and Freedom please vote #1 or #2.