Post by Earl Purple on Jun 1, 2015 11:15:59 GMT 1
The concept of the "Swiss" style is that a club plays a fixed number of games, moving up and down the table as they won / lose and playing someone near themselves.
That ensures you don't get instantly eliminated.
The "Swiss" format could be used for just some of the earlier rounds to determine who then qualifies for the "final" stage.
The disadvantage of the "pure" Swiss format is that you don't know who you will be playing until the last moment which makes it hard to plan fixtures although that could work for Europe where fixtures are well enough spaced. You can also use a "delayed" Swiss whereby the last round doesn't count with regards to who you play next so it can be planned ahead.
The format works well for tournaments where you want to have a lot of entrants, not have immediate elimination but also not have to have too many fixtures each.
Thus the "Swiss" phase could work that every qualifying club plays 8 fixtures 2 weeks apart over a period of 15 weeks in August, September, October and November. Each team is guaranteed to play 4 home games and 4 away games. At the end of this, the top however many "qualify". Perhaps the top 16 or top 32 for a knock-out tournament?
With regards the Premier League, we have seem clubs break in and stay there, and clubs leave and fail to come back. However, aside from the big money thrown at Manchester City to get them into the Champions League we don't see other clubs able to break in, and usually it is Liverpool who are now missing out although they did break in once and Spurs also once made it.
The huge sums paid for Champions League also are leading to crazy wages for players who aren't even established as the best in the world like Sterling who is no more than a decent player at a club who once came 2nd in the league thanks mostly to a different striker who is world class and then didn't get through their CL group.
That ensures you don't get instantly eliminated.
The "Swiss" format could be used for just some of the earlier rounds to determine who then qualifies for the "final" stage.
The disadvantage of the "pure" Swiss format is that you don't know who you will be playing until the last moment which makes it hard to plan fixtures although that could work for Europe where fixtures are well enough spaced. You can also use a "delayed" Swiss whereby the last round doesn't count with regards to who you play next so it can be planned ahead.
The format works well for tournaments where you want to have a lot of entrants, not have immediate elimination but also not have to have too many fixtures each.
Thus the "Swiss" phase could work that every qualifying club plays 8 fixtures 2 weeks apart over a period of 15 weeks in August, September, October and November. Each team is guaranteed to play 4 home games and 4 away games. At the end of this, the top however many "qualify". Perhaps the top 16 or top 32 for a knock-out tournament?
With regards the Premier League, we have seem clubs break in and stay there, and clubs leave and fail to come back. However, aside from the big money thrown at Manchester City to get them into the Champions League we don't see other clubs able to break in, and usually it is Liverpool who are now missing out although they did break in once and Spurs also once made it.
The huge sums paid for Champions League also are leading to crazy wages for players who aren't even established as the best in the world like Sterling who is no more than a decent player at a club who once came 2nd in the league thanks mostly to a different striker who is world class and then didn't get through their CL group.