Kenneth Miller
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Here is my big hope in the fight to get a third arrangement added to the top level other than the nations and the clubs.
I now wish to present a idea containing ten teams playing two games per year each, so 10 games per year overall :
Team East Anglia
Team Yorkshire
Team West Country
Team London (including all 32 boroughs and the city)
Team Greater Manchester (including all ten authorities from Wigan to Bolton)
Team Hampshire
Team Sussex and Kent
Team Midlands
The Great Northern Alliance (ranging from Cheshire and Merseyside to Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear)
Team Mighty Thames-Herts Alliance (ranging from Surrey to Oxfordshire, Bucks, Berks, Herts, Cambs and Bedfordshire)
Scotland, and Wales are to have their own separate trophy events, we recommend, with Scotland’s nine and Wales’ five biggest population local authority areas each getting its own team and with the rest united in one big 10th & 6th “alliance” team. Here too exception credits will ensure that the teams who are strongest in years 1 and 2 do not continue to dominate the competition by far in the later years.
The way our ranking points are awarded: a team gets up to 10 opponent difficulty points if facing a highly ranked or top seed team, regardless of the final score, in addition to the 300 for a win, 120 for a draw, 0 for a loss, and 100 split according to final score (winner gets all if 4:0 - loser gets all these if 4:3 - so for example 0:0 gives the teams 120 each; 2:2 gives them 122 each; 1:0 gives 303 & 97; 2:1 gives 302 & 98; 3:2 gives 301 & 99; 4:3 gives 300 & 100; 2:0 gives 350 & 50; 3:1 gives 249 & 51; 3:0 gives 280 & 20; 4:1 gives 279 & 21 ranking points; 4:0 or 5:0 or 6:0 or 6:1 gives 400 & 0). If a team has an overall ranking points score going into a new year of 80% of the way between the top team and the bottom team then all its opponents get 8 opponent difficulty points, as getting the same 2:1 score against this team is to be rewarded a little better than getting this same score against the bottom ranked team is. This part will be altered if the replies I get request this.
The ten teams are to be split into two divisions of 6 in A and 4 in B, with one team promoted and one relegated every year - the relegation is decided by adding 95% of this year's new ranking points won to 4% of last year's and 1% of the year before this, whereas the promotion is decided by 99% this year's plus 1% last year's, and two teams, one at the top of the ladder and one at the bottom, receive an adjustment in their exception credit score every year, except when the battles of the top three and of the bottom three seeds end in an equal number of ranking points won that year or a difference of less than five new ranking points, in which case no new adjustment is added.
I wish to add a system of exception credits, a sort of team rules-changing allowance for the year - in year one, each of the teams has an allowance of 25 exception credits which can always be used on any mixture of four ways that the team chooses and has to announce to the public at least 10 minutes before kick-off in its first game of the year:
In later years, the team that has won the highest number of new rankings points of the three teams in the top seed positions (1, 2 & 3) has its exception credits adjusted downward by 1 or 5 depending on whether it has won by more than 50 ranking points over its two opponents (adjust by 5) or by 6-49 (we adjust by 1) and depending on whether the same team has also won the previous year's battle of the top three seeds (if so we double the adjustment this year to 2 or 10). These are temporary adjustments to the exception credits which expire in steps of 2 per year after having been applied in full for three years, but this fade-away is suspended by two years if the team wins the battle of the top three seeds again during these fade-down years. Similarly, every time a team loses the battle of the three lowest seeds (8 & 9 & 10) it has its exception credits allowance increased on a temporary basis starting the following year by 1 or 10, depending on whether it has lost by more than 50 ranking points over its two opponents (adjust by 10) or by 11-50 (adjust by 1), and depending on whether the same team has also lost the previous year's battle of the top three seeds (if so we double the adjustment to 2 or 20) on a temporary basis, applied in full for three years and then fading away at a rate of 4 exception credits per year in which it has not finished in the bottom position again, thus also tending during the fade-away time back toward 25.
These exception credits can be used in any combination of four usages:
A) to field a player who has lived more than 1 but less than 10 years in this geographical area a team uses up 1 exception credit per year below 10 years residency (so if he has lived there 4 and a quarter years it requires six exception credits)
B) to field a player who has lived less than 1 year in this geographical area a team uses up 9 exception credit per year below 10 plus one additional exception credit per month of his first year of residing there that have not yet elapsed, so 9 + 12 = 21 exception credits are required to use a person who has never lived in the area, or 9 + 10 = 19 is required to field a player who has lived there for 2.1 months.
C) Each team normally has to have one player on the field at all time who is below the age of 17 and a second player who is below the age of 18 but a team may choose to use some or all of its exception credits to move one of these age boundaries upwards by 1 week per exception credit used
D) team normally has to have one (3rd) player on the field at all time who is below the age of 19, a 4th player who is below the age of 20 and a 5th who is below the age of 21 at the time of the first kick-off of the year, but a team may choose to use some or all of its exception credits to move one of these age boundaries upwards by 1 month per exception credit used
When a team moves between the divisions, its entire rankings score is adjusted by +25% if relegated or -25% if promoted, and its exception credits allowance is altered to match the 25 that other teams have if they have no adjustment currently in their allowance.
The ranking points each team gets from each game they play is added up and it then fades away over the years so that before a new year starts each team has 100% of its most recent year's ranking points haul + 80% of the year before's + 60% + 40% + 20% + 15% + 10% + 5% + 2% + 1% of the hauls from the years before this, in its tally, and these overall tallies within each division determine the starting order and determine which team will play against which other team this year: the opponent allocation system for round 1 of play is 1 vs 3; 2 vs 5; 4 vs 6; 7 vs 9; 8 vs 10; and for round 2 it is 1 vs 2; 3 vs 4; 5 vs 6; 7 vs 8; 9 vs 10, so each team always gets given two evenly matched opponents every year, but not always the same opponents year after year. Each game is to be played in the largest available stadium that is situated in or close to either of the two team’s geographical areas.
If opting for dates that will be close to- or the same day as the Team England games, our new event becomes a showcase of England's other talent and a much watched accompaniment to the day's action. If opting for dates that will be within the clubs games year, the idea could include also the very best players and be given two Saturdays of the year in which to really dazzle and shine. I suggest evaluating whether we could either have slightly smaller leagues (trimming some of the high and middle levels from 24 to 22 teams) OR replacing the league cup with new smaller 8-team clubs cups for/within each region of the UK, plus further 8-team qualification cup within each region, and have a maximum three cup games per team (+ the FA cup games + the international club games) by using this solution.
The year one seedings could be arrived at using as combination of three different scoring systems (such as population, the sum of best five attendance figures for five players of the team 5x5=25 method, and the top 50 players of all 100,99,98,... scoring exercise), and it could be given a pre-determined and shrinking away percentage of the influence onto the opponent allocation for years two to five.
The above exception credits system is also part of my Ideas B & C (below):
In Idea B: Each of the 150 areas of England that have an elected council with a remit over children’s services, adult social services, transport services, LEAs and other areas (and is hence the main council for this area – these are the borough, unitary or county councils) is to have a team, with five divisions levels overall and 50 > 40 > 20 > 20 > 20 teams playing in these five divisions, and with most of the games based on a proximity system of opponent allocation
or we could have a gradual change from 100 > 50 to a 50 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 format
Idea C is to play a 12-team Union Jack Trophy of representative teams to be played at some of the biggest stadiums in the UK in August 2021 and to contain the UK’s top players : each of the 12 official regions of the UK is to have its own team.
By announcing all opponents ahead of time, we give ourselves more time to sell more tickets.
There is so much that can be achieved with this concept, either as a people-run initiative, or in a context where the places on the decision-making boards and the best seats in the stadium are auctioned off. The choice is yours.
With the right backing through any major company, some of these concepts will take off and become very successful.
With your help, one of the below ideas can really take off.
Without your help, it cannot happen.
I now wish to present a idea containing ten teams playing two games per year each, so 10 games per year overall :
Team East Anglia
Team Yorkshire
Team West Country
Team London (including all 32 boroughs and the city)
Team Greater Manchester (including all ten authorities from Wigan to Bolton)
Team Hampshire
Team Sussex and Kent
Team Midlands
The Great Northern Alliance (ranging from Cheshire and Merseyside to Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear)
Team Mighty Thames-Herts Alliance (ranging from Surrey to Oxfordshire, Bucks, Berks, Herts, Cambs and Bedfordshire)
Scotland, and Wales are to have their own separate trophy events, we recommend, with Scotland’s nine and Wales’ five biggest population local authority areas each getting its own team and with the rest united in one big 10th & 6th “alliance” team. Here too exception credits will ensure that the teams who are strongest in years 1 and 2 do not continue to dominate the competition by far in the later years.
The way our ranking points are awarded: a team gets up to 10 opponent difficulty points if facing a highly ranked or top seed team, regardless of the final score, in addition to the 300 for a win, 120 for a draw, 0 for a loss, and 100 split according to final score (winner gets all if 4:0 - loser gets all these if 4:3 - so for example 0:0 gives the teams 120 each; 2:2 gives them 122 each; 1:0 gives 303 & 97; 2:1 gives 302 & 98; 3:2 gives 301 & 99; 4:3 gives 300 & 100; 2:0 gives 350 & 50; 3:1 gives 249 & 51; 3:0 gives 280 & 20; 4:1 gives 279 & 21 ranking points; 4:0 or 5:0 or 6:0 or 6:1 gives 400 & 0). If a team has an overall ranking points score going into a new year of 80% of the way between the top team and the bottom team then all its opponents get 8 opponent difficulty points, as getting the same 2:1 score against this team is to be rewarded a little better than getting this same score against the bottom ranked team is. This part will be altered if the replies I get request this.
The ten teams are to be split into two divisions of 6 in A and 4 in B, with one team promoted and one relegated every year - the relegation is decided by adding 95% of this year's new ranking points won to 4% of last year's and 1% of the year before this, whereas the promotion is decided by 99% this year's plus 1% last year's, and two teams, one at the top of the ladder and one at the bottom, receive an adjustment in their exception credit score every year, except when the battles of the top three and of the bottom three seeds end in an equal number of ranking points won that year or a difference of less than five new ranking points, in which case no new adjustment is added.
I wish to add a system of exception credits, a sort of team rules-changing allowance for the year - in year one, each of the teams has an allowance of 25 exception credits which can always be used on any mixture of four ways that the team chooses and has to announce to the public at least 10 minutes before kick-off in its first game of the year:
In later years, the team that has won the highest number of new rankings points of the three teams in the top seed positions (1, 2 & 3) has its exception credits adjusted downward by 1 or 5 depending on whether it has won by more than 50 ranking points over its two opponents (adjust by 5) or by 6-49 (we adjust by 1) and depending on whether the same team has also won the previous year's battle of the top three seeds (if so we double the adjustment this year to 2 or 10). These are temporary adjustments to the exception credits which expire in steps of 2 per year after having been applied in full for three years, but this fade-away is suspended by two years if the team wins the battle of the top three seeds again during these fade-down years. Similarly, every time a team loses the battle of the three lowest seeds (8 & 9 & 10) it has its exception credits allowance increased on a temporary basis starting the following year by 1 or 10, depending on whether it has lost by more than 50 ranking points over its two opponents (adjust by 10) or by 11-50 (adjust by 1), and depending on whether the same team has also lost the previous year's battle of the top three seeds (if so we double the adjustment to 2 or 20) on a temporary basis, applied in full for three years and then fading away at a rate of 4 exception credits per year in which it has not finished in the bottom position again, thus also tending during the fade-away time back toward 25.
These exception credits can be used in any combination of four usages:
A) to field a player who has lived more than 1 but less than 10 years in this geographical area a team uses up 1 exception credit per year below 10 years residency (so if he has lived there 4 and a quarter years it requires six exception credits)
B) to field a player who has lived less than 1 year in this geographical area a team uses up 9 exception credit per year below 10 plus one additional exception credit per month of his first year of residing there that have not yet elapsed, so 9 + 12 = 21 exception credits are required to use a person who has never lived in the area, or 9 + 10 = 19 is required to field a player who has lived there for 2.1 months.
C) Each team normally has to have one player on the field at all time who is below the age of 17 and a second player who is below the age of 18 but a team may choose to use some or all of its exception credits to move one of these age boundaries upwards by 1 week per exception credit used
D) team normally has to have one (3rd) player on the field at all time who is below the age of 19, a 4th player who is below the age of 20 and a 5th who is below the age of 21 at the time of the first kick-off of the year, but a team may choose to use some or all of its exception credits to move one of these age boundaries upwards by 1 month per exception credit used
When a team moves between the divisions, its entire rankings score is adjusted by +25% if relegated or -25% if promoted, and its exception credits allowance is altered to match the 25 that other teams have if they have no adjustment currently in their allowance.
The ranking points each team gets from each game they play is added up and it then fades away over the years so that before a new year starts each team has 100% of its most recent year's ranking points haul + 80% of the year before's + 60% + 40% + 20% + 15% + 10% + 5% + 2% + 1% of the hauls from the years before this, in its tally, and these overall tallies within each division determine the starting order and determine which team will play against which other team this year: the opponent allocation system for round 1 of play is 1 vs 3; 2 vs 5; 4 vs 6; 7 vs 9; 8 vs 10; and for round 2 it is 1 vs 2; 3 vs 4; 5 vs 6; 7 vs 8; 9 vs 10, so each team always gets given two evenly matched opponents every year, but not always the same opponents year after year. Each game is to be played in the largest available stadium that is situated in or close to either of the two team’s geographical areas.
If opting for dates that will be close to- or the same day as the Team England games, our new event becomes a showcase of England's other talent and a much watched accompaniment to the day's action. If opting for dates that will be within the clubs games year, the idea could include also the very best players and be given two Saturdays of the year in which to really dazzle and shine. I suggest evaluating whether we could either have slightly smaller leagues (trimming some of the high and middle levels from 24 to 22 teams) OR replacing the league cup with new smaller 8-team clubs cups for/within each region of the UK, plus further 8-team qualification cup within each region, and have a maximum three cup games per team (+ the FA cup games + the international club games) by using this solution.
The year one seedings could be arrived at using as combination of three different scoring systems (such as population, the sum of best five attendance figures for five players of the team 5x5=25 method, and the top 50 players of all 100,99,98,... scoring exercise), and it could be given a pre-determined and shrinking away percentage of the influence onto the opponent allocation for years two to five.
The above exception credits system is also part of my Ideas B & C (below):
In Idea B: Each of the 150 areas of England that have an elected council with a remit over children’s services, adult social services, transport services, LEAs and other areas (and is hence the main council for this area – these are the borough, unitary or county councils) is to have a team, with five divisions levels overall and 50 > 40 > 20 > 20 > 20 teams playing in these five divisions, and with most of the games based on a proximity system of opponent allocation
or we could have a gradual change from 100 > 50 to a 50 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 > 20 format
Idea C is to play a 12-team Union Jack Trophy of representative teams to be played at some of the biggest stadiums in the UK in August 2021 and to contain the UK’s top players : each of the 12 official regions of the UK is to have its own team.
By announcing all opponents ahead of time, we give ourselves more time to sell more tickets.
There is so much that can be achieved with this concept, either as a people-run initiative, or in a context where the places on the decision-making boards and the best seats in the stadium are auctioned off. The choice is yours.
With the right backing through any major company, some of these concepts will take off and become very successful.
With your help, one of the below ideas can really take off.
Without your help, it cannot happen.
