The Pointless Realignment Outpost

[rams80]

I don't get Indy in the South, though.

You've never been to Central or Southern Indiana have you.

[Funky Bunky]

While I have my share of bad posts, you really need to slow down, guy. Post less, read more.

[NJTank]

I want to see the Spirits of St. Louis in the NBA

[Evil G]

I don't get Indy in the South, though.

You've never been to Central or Southern Indiana have you.

I've been to Clarksville.

[Geoff]

Expand to Louisville and Virginia Beach

:censored:ing brilliant idea. Expand into a market where they'll be contractually obligated to be the 3rd tenant in the arena behind a men's and women's college team.

Ton of thought went into that one there.

[IceCap]

I want to see the Spirits of St. Louis in the NBA

I wouldn't.

[jlog3000]

Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans; you know, dream conferences. But here's a start:

Here's my sample of a dream conference based from the defunct Metro Conference:

i.) - Charter members

Cincinnati (75-76 to 90-91)

Louisville (75-76 to 94-95)

Memphis (75-76 to 90-91)

Tulane (75-76 to 94-95)

Georgia Tech (75-76 to 78-79)

Florida State (76-77 to 90-91)

Virginia Tech (79-80 to 94-95)

Southern Mississippi (82-83 to 94-95)

South Carolina (83-84 to 90-91)

ii.) - Possible expansion candidates:

South Florida (91-92 to 94-95)

North Carolina-Charlotte (91-92 to 94-95)

Alabama-Birmingham

Central Florida

Houston

Lemme know your opinions or thoughts or ideas. Feel free to share them.

[The_Admiral]

Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans

Look up at the top.

[jlog3000]

Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans

Look up at the top.

Where? I tried searching it before making this thread and there was nothing related.

[wdm1219inpenna]

2015 Major League Baseball

1. Return the Milwaukee Brewers to the American League and the Houston Astros to the National League.

2. Adding 2 expansion teams, in the A.L. the Portland Meadowlarks, in the N.L. the return of the Montreal Expos.

3. Each league A.L. and N.L. would have 4 divisions, 4 teams per division.

4. Only division winners would advance to play in the Division Series. Wild card teams would be gone.

5. Each league's four divisions would be "Atlantic", "Central", "Midland" and "Pacific".

6. The Atlantic and Central divisions would be in the Eastern Region, the Midland and Pacific divisions would be in the Western Region.

7. The Atlantic and Central division champions would play in the Division Series to determine the Eastern Region champ, while the Midland and Pacific division champs would play to determine the West champ.

8. Both League Championship Series would be played between the East and West champions (as was the case from 1969 - 1993).

9. Final standings would no longer be taken into account with respect to "seeding". All post-season match-up sites would be pre-determined. This includes the All-Star Game's outcome having no bearing on the World Series.

10. No more interleague play.

11. AL Atlantic - Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays - EASTERN REGION

AL Central - Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays - EASTERN REGION

AL Midland - Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers - WESTERN REGION

AL Pacific - Los Angeles Angels, Oakland Athletics, Portland Meadowlarks, Seattle Mariners - WESTERN REGION

NL Atlantic - Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Nationals - EASTERN REGION

NL Central - Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals - EASTERN REGION

NL Midland - Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros - WESTERN REGION

NL Pacific - Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants - WESTERN REGION

Each team's 162 game schedule would consist of:

22 divisional games (11 home, 11 road) x 3 teams = 66 games

12 games vs. other 4 regional opponents (6 home, 6 road) x 4 teams = 48 games

6 games vs. other 8 opponents from opposite region (3 home, 3 road) x 8 teams = 48 games

[Magnus]

In the somewhat near future:

Tampa Bay Rays move to Montreal to become the new Expos.

Miami Marlins move to Louisville, KY, to become the Louisville Bats - acquiring the AAA team of the same name from the Reds for Miami's current AAA affiliate, the New Orleans Zephyrs. The AAA Bats now play in Lexington, KY.

Expansion teams are added in Indiana and Portland, Oregon. Leagues realign to 2 leagues of 2 divisions each.

Divisions:

AL East:

New York Yankees

Boston Red Sox

Toronto Blue Jays

Montreal Expos* (FORMERLY TAMPA)

Detroit Tigers

Baltimore Orioles

Cleveland Indians

Minnesota Twins

NL East:

New York Mets

Atlanta Braves

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Louisville Bats (FORMERLY MIAMI)

Washington Nationals

Cincinnati Reds

Milwaukee Brewers

AL West:

Seattle Mariners

Oakland Athletics

Los Angeles Angels

Texas Rangers

Houston Astros

Kansas City Royals

Chicago White Sox

Indiana expansion

NL West:

San Diego Padres

San Francisco Giants

Los Angeles Dodgers

Portland expansion

Colorado Rockies

St. Louis Cardinals

Chicago Cubs

Arizona Diamondbacks

SCHEDULE:

7 divisional opponents x 8 (56 games)

8 league opponents x 7 (56 games)

16 inter-league opponents x 3 (48 games)

TOTAL 160 GAMES

The reduction to 160 games will leave some space in the calendar for tiebreaker games, etc.

MLB POSTSEASON

12 teams out of 32 will make the postseason. This still keeps things quite exclusive - the way baseball wants it to be.

The 2nd and 3rd-place teams in each division will square off in the knockout round.

This keeps the race for the pennant interesting for the same reason as now (not having to waste your best pitcher in the knockout game) by virtue of winning your division.

FIRST ROUND: WILD CARD SHOWDOWN (1 GAME) #2 and #3 in each division square off.

SECOND ROUND: DIVISION SERIES - WINNERS OF WILD CARD FACE DIVISION WINNERS

THIRD ROUND: LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

FOURTH ROUND: WORLD SERIES

[LAWeaver]

Here's a minor college football realignment for ya's: the SEC

East:

Florida

Tennessee

South Carolina

Kentucky

Georgia

Alabama

Auburn

West:

Texas A&M

Missouri

Ole Miss

Mississippi State

LSU

Arkansas

Vanderbilt

Hope it kinda balances out the power in the conference, which would allow Texas A&M and LSU to get a chance to face Bama in the SEC Title game, that way its not always Alabama vs. Themselves

[DS729]

Here's a minor college football realignment for ya's: the SEC

East:

Florida

Tennessee

South Carolina

Kentucky

Georgia

Alabama

Auburn

West:

Texas A&M

Missouri

Ole Miss

Mississippi State

LSU

Arkansas

Vanderbilt

Hope it kinda balances out the power in the conference, which would allow Texas A&M and LSU to get a chance to face Bama in the SEC Title game, that way its not always Alabama vs. Themselves

It doesn't really balance out the power right now, partially because the whole east division is on the rise.

But this allignment does solve the stupid problem of having Missouri in the East, but I'd swap Vandy for Kentucky in this scenario. Kentucky is alot more isolated than Vandy is, and their major rival isn't in the SEC, so they're not really losing any rivalries.

[DS729]

Expand to Louisville and Virginia Beach

:censored:ing brilliant idea. Expand into a market where they'll be contractually obligated to be the 3rd tenant in the arena behind a men's and women's college team.

Ton of thought went into that one there.

That doesn't apply to Virginia Beach at all.

[rams80]

Expand to Louisville and Virginia Beach

:censored:ing brilliant idea. Expand into a market where they'll be contractually obligated to be the 3rd tenant in the arena behind a men's and women's college team.

Ton of thought went into that one there.

That doesn't apply to Virginia Beach at all.

Yes, but "the proposed arena is an unethical crime perpetrated on the citizenry by business interests" does.

[DS729]

Expand to Louisville and Virginia Beach

:censored:ing brilliant idea. Expand into a market where they'll be contractually obligated to be the 3rd tenant in the arena behind a men's and women's college team.

Ton of thought went into that one there.

That doesn't apply to Virginia Beach at all.

Yes, but "the proposed arena is an unethical crime perpetrated on the citizenry by business interests" does.

Well then apply that rule to every major metropolitan area in the US, it's not uncommon for crime and business to reign supreme in a big city, my friend.

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[C's]

Bored.

24 team MLB.

AL EAST

Boston Red Sox

New York Yankees

Toronto Blue Jays

Montreal Expos (TB Rays, or somebody else, or expansion after contraction, whatever)

Philadelphia Athletics (Oakland A's, obv)

Washington Nationals

AL WEST

Texas Rangers

Chicago White Sox

Minnesota Twins

Detroit Tigers

Cincinnati Reds

Pittsburgh Pirates

NL EAST

Boston Marlins (or whatever you want to call them)

New York Mets

Philadelphia Phillies

Atlanta Braves

Chicago Cubs

St. Louis Cardinals

NL WEST

Los Angeles Dodgers

San Francisco Giants

Anaheim Angels

San Diego Padres

Seattle Mariners

Colorado Rockies

PLAYOFFS

LDS

Each division winner vs. the division runner up, division leader gets home field advantage, 5 game series.

LCS

Self-explanatory, unchanged

World Series

Self-explanatory, unchanged

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Sort of a mish-mash of geographical realignment and the traditional league-based alignment. More league shuffling than the traditionalists would like, but I think it's cleaner to have all the west coast teams stacked in one division. That way nobody has to make the two time zone jump three times a season for in-division games. Most of the central teams are stacked in the AL West, so they don't have to do a ridiculous amount of travel for in-division series either.

-Interleague play becomes a little difficult. The northeast is a wet dream of natural rivalries, but every city west of Chicago has had that taken away. Might as well scrap it. 24 games (8 3-game series) per team in your division x 5 other teams = 120 games, leaving 42 (which is divisible by 6) for out of division games. Overkill on the in-division stuff, maybe?

-Yep, Boston and Philly get additional teams. The Boston NL team gets a shiny new stadium on the ocean that allows splash homers into the water, like AT&T and that proposed Rays ballpark from a while back. Could've cut the A's, but baseball would be weird without them. Plenty of baseball fever in the northeast to go around. And ESPN splooges in their pants.

Probably the worst ideas ever but there you go.

[McCall]

So you put both LA teams in the same division and accomplish that by putting the Reds in AL? A team that's been in the NL since 1890. It's one thing if you're going AL all east teams and NL all west or vice versa, but simply swapping one team for another does not really work with one of the oldest and most traditional teams. Especially when it's to pair together 2 teams in the same market, which again only works if you go one league west and one league east, which is not the case here.

[C's]

Pretty much all the eastern NL teams have history. The Phillies, Braves and Cubs have more history than the Reds, you can't split the Cubs and Cards, you need an NL team in New York for the sake of appealing, easily marketable matchups with the other cities. Someone had to go. I mean I guess you could resurrect the old NL West that included the Reds and Braves, but come on.

What's wrong with the two LA teams grouped together? I like the idea of natural interleague rivalries but it doesn't do a whole lot to create real rivalries or appealing matchups, it's really just novelty. Dodgers/Angels isn't much of a rivalry as is, but if you put the two of them in the same league and division and let them keep trying to outspend each other each winter, then it could get interesting quickly, especially if one steals a key free agent from the other. They each have well-established fanbases, neither one's going to jump ship for the other. I don't see the issue.