Negative Bonus Points

[Titanium Shadow]

When a D2 team plays a D1 team, they get 6 points for a win and 1 point for a loss, and +1 bonus point if the D1 team wins 7 or 8 games and +2 bonus points if the D1 team wins 9 or 10 games. In my opinion, this system unduly rewards teams who schedule weak D1 opponents (I’m looking at you Charter and Delcastle).

To make it less rewarding for D2 teams to schedule cupcake D1 teams, a negative bonus point penalty could be assessed. For instance, if the D1 team has 0-1 wins there would be -2 bonus points and for 2-3 wins there would be -1 bonus point. This system would end up netting the same points for winning against a 0-1 D1 team as winning against a 0-6 D2 team.

I am under no allusions that this would ever actually be implemented by DIAA, but thought I would throw it out so us armchair quarterbacks could debate it.

 

[Ikeyfbst2]

Oh lord, must we continue to beat this dead horse?
Sorry, long day.

 

[Titanium Shadow]

Oh lord, must we continue to beat this dead horse?
Sorry, long day.

I had never heard of the idea before. In fact, no place I have ever lived before (California, Colorado, Oklahoma, South Carolina) has used a point system to determine who makes the playoffs.

 

[VoiceofReason247]

@Titanium Shadow Many state use and are going to a point system. Partly because of fair play and enrollment. States like California and Oklahoma have district games and the size of the school doesn't matter, But when you take account for size of school and breaking teams in class/divisions. If your conference/division has multiple class size schools then the point system is the only way to do playoffs.

Unfortunately for Delaware they do break up the divisions by sizes but the limited amount of schools require teams to play schools in different divisions.

California has now moved to a point system. It use to be play you division games and the top teams from the division make their class playoffs. Now they play the division games and based up your record and recent history of wins and losses you are placed in one of the class 1-13 for playoffs.

 

[Titanium Shadow]

VoiceOfReason247 My point wasn't to compare the relative benefits/drawbacks of a point system vs a divisional system, it was to explain why my original post was not a "dead horse" issue to me.