The Divisions...

[Enigma's puzzle]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Quick thoughts:
-You would have to start with the Original Teams and HOF teams since they qualify every year) and assign them to divisions. It would be good to have a mix of regions in these teams per division. These teams could act as division captains.
-Division Winners become a one year captains for their division.
-CA winners obviously become HOF teams and stay with their division.
-EI winner becomes a one year captain
-Some way to appoint permanent captians

-Each division captain submits an online draft list of their top 100 (arbitrary) registered teams to join their division that year.
-Computer program randomises a division draft order then randomises the captain order in each and assigns the top pick on that list. Moves to next division in the order (serpentine) makes a pick from a division captain in the that division. Repeats till a 100 (again arbitrary) teams are selected.
-Rest of the teams are randomly assigned
-This would probably even out the strength of the divisions in a decentralised manner, without anyone knowing who selected who or in what order.

-Captains are responsible for the pageantry and social events of their division. Division Hug anyone?

Issues:
-This is alot of power/responsibility for the captains, may make others feel left out. However this the only way to guarantee those teams will be there.
-Division winners need to be qualified for next year. (Should be that way anyway IMHO)
-Need other ways to appoint permanent captains
-Numbers of Captains in each division could become out of balance, as well as their regional alignment.
-Miss out on chances to be in division with different teams (anticipate that opposing captains will interact in friendly rivalries so that is perhaps better than being with them)

Thoughts?

What if the Divisional Captains were put in charge of freezing teams. There would be an number of alotted freezes, maybe equal to the number of HOF and Original teams. Each of these HOF and Original Teams make a selection of a team, that was in their division, to become FROZEN. Then the teams would be frozen for 4 or 5 years, depending how the numbers worked, and in the end of that time they are either let go, or reUped for another 4 or 5 years of service. All the left over teams would be added to round out the division.


I personally believe sorting geographically is an aweful idea, all the Michigan teams have already played at the state championship, and Canadian and Minnesota teams only have 2 regionals, so most of them have seen most of their neighbors already. However if they sorted the teams into geographic areas then distributed them into divisions evenly, so we got a great mix of teams from every area, fun would be had by all.