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<blockquote data-quote="Shaggy" data-source="post: 639613" data-attributes="member: 43400"><p>Your Hurricanes example is essentially correct as the Hurricanes would be playing 15 games, but the 2 games you have labelled as "extra" aren't really extra.</p><p></p><p>If you look at a South African example, lets say the Kings are in Conference 1 and it's Conference 1's turn to play the New Zealand Conference</p><p></p><p>There playing schedule would be:</p><p></p><p>They play the other 3 teams in Conference 1 twice (6 Games)</p><p>They play the 4 teams in the other South African Conference once (4 Games)</p><p>and they play the 5 NZ teams once (5 Games)</p><p></p><p>Total Games equals 15 ... the only difference between the South African conferences and the Australasian ones, is that they play all of the teams in their conference twice, where the Australasian ones only play some of their conference twice.</p><p></p><p>I do get your point about the relative strengths of the conferences, but I think they've tried to make it as fair as they can, by insuring that the conference that plays Australia one year, plays New Zealand the next </p><p></p><p>It seems that from the New Zealand players perspective, it will be easier, because it's the current 8 matches against the other New Zealand sides that they seem most worried about.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm certainly not saying it's the greatest system, but I've got to admit that it's an impressive effort in compromise ... all of the SANZAR members have got something/what they want out of it ... it's only us fans that seem to be complaining</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shaggy, post: 639613, member: 43400"] Your Hurricanes example is essentially correct as the Hurricanes would be playing 15 games, but the 2 games you have labelled as "extra" aren't really extra. If you look at a South African example, lets say the Kings are in Conference 1 and it's Conference 1's turn to play the New Zealand Conference There playing schedule would be: They play the other 3 teams in Conference 1 twice (6 Games) They play the 4 teams in the other South African Conference once (4 Games) and they play the 5 NZ teams once (5 Games) Total Games equals 15 ... the only difference between the South African conferences and the Australasian ones, is that they play all of the teams in their conference twice, where the Australasian ones only play some of their conference twice. I do get your point about the relative strengths of the conferences, but I think they've tried to make it as fair as they can, by insuring that the conference that plays Australia one year, plays New Zealand the next It seems that from the New Zealand players perspective, it will be easier, because it's the current 8 matches against the other New Zealand sides that they seem most worried about. I'm certainly not saying it's the greatest system, but I've got to admit that it's an impressive effort in compromise ... all of the SANZAR members have got something/what they want out of it ... it's only us fans that seem to be complaining [/QUOTE]
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