AFL as the World Cup

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Whilst i wait for Senegal v Colombia and the permutations across both games tonight.

Since Gil loves other sports - reconfigure AFL around the World Cup.

Play the season over 17 rounds (everyone plays each other once).

At the end - 4 groups of 4

1st to 4th qualify top of groups A-D respectively
5th to 8th second
9th to 11th third
12th-16th fourth
Bottom 2 teams go into a Pick 1 play off - winner gets pick 1.

Week 1
1st (Home) v 16th
2nd (Home) v 15th
so forth

Week 2
1st (H) v 12th
2nd (H) v 11th
so forth

Week 3
1st (H) v 8th
2nd (H) v 7th
so forth.

Top 2 proceed from each group based on W-L and % in the group stages only

Week 4
Game 1: Top Group A (H) v Second Group D
Game 2: Second Group A (H) v Second Group C
Game 3: Top Group B (H) v Top Group D
Game 4: Second Group B (H) v Top Group C

Week 5
Winner G1 (H) v Winner G4
Winner G2 (H) v Winner G3

Week 6 - GF between winners of previous week.

Pros:
No double fixtures prior to the group rankings
Top 4 get a run of 3 weeks at home, possibly more if they win they get out of their groups
Incentive for teams to keep going for as long as possible through the season
Incentive to score more during the group stage games
No losing finals on the way to the GF

Cons:
It's a stupid idea
 

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Oh wait they get to play the first part of the season. Should probably let them just play out the whole thing but 16 teams is more manageable for your 2nd phase, so I think you're doing the right thing.
 
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Oh wait they get to play the first part of the season. Should probably let them just play out the whole thing but 16 teams is more manageable for your 2nd phase, so I think you're doing the right thing.
north and st kilda are so far at the front of my list of kicking teams out.
 
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Hell no
Cons. 16th team could have a blinder of a three week period in the group stageand make finals even if they won once or twice only (or not at all) in the 17 weeks prior.

The set up for groups and fixturing for the weeks 18/19/20 is not a bad way of coming up with the extra games beyond 17. But afl unlikely to cut 2 games so ....
 

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You don't have to make every thread about Rance.

Look - overall, I like the idea the OP has proposed. However, I'd like to see a bit more reality brought in - ie, phone-in voting on who deserves to progress through to the next round, weird rule changes every time the ratings go down a tad (whoops, we do that already), losers in the early rounds can be brought back into the competition later just, because, and every game is decided by a kick after the siren, that includes an ad-break whilst the ball is actually in flight.

Yeah, I'd watch. Once, maybe.
 
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