The Scottish Way

[Tony_Kaufman]

Would doing similar to what the Scottish Premiership does help the struggling teams and make the Premier League more competitive?

Imagine that once everyone has played each other once the table freezes. After that the top ten all play each other once and the bottom ten then all play each other once.

I can't figure out how the fixtures would be calculated, but it would sure as hell make things a lot more interesting and give teams a fighting chance of staying up.

 

[BigBed]

No.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

No

 

[SLB]

Would doing similar to what the Scottish Premiership does help the struggling teams and make the Premier League more competitive?

Imagine that once everyone has played each other once the table freezes. After that the top ten all play each other once and the bottom ten then all play each other once.

I can't figure out how the fixtures would be calculated, but it would sure as hell make things a lot more interesting and give teams a fighting chance of staying up.

Yes

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

If it's Scottish then it's a 'no' from Gaini.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

The Scottish league where it's always the same two sides at the top? Even when Rangers were liquidated and returned pretty fast?

That's the model to follow is it?

Or is the biggest league in the world broadly doing it better than anyone else...

 

[SwissBlade]

Would doing similar to what the Scottish Premiership does help the struggling teams and make the Premier League more competitive?

Imagine that once everyone has played each other once the table freezes. After that the top ten all play each other once and the bottom ten then all play each other once.

I can't figure out how the fixtures would be calculated, but it would sure as hell make things a lot more interesting and give teams a fighting chance of staying up.

I really don’t like it and it means you’re locked into bottom top half. So it would probably create a bigger divide

 

[Blade56]

No.

No

Yes

 

[Geordie Blade]

I can't figure out how the fixtures would be calculated, but it would sure as hell make things a lot more interesting and give teams a fighting chance of staying up.

Three teams would still get relegated, so it would make exactly no difference to the overall chance of staying up. The matches would be slightly easier (for everyone in the bottom half), but the points required for survival would be higher.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

I really don’t like it and it means you’re locked into bottom top half. So it would probably create a bigger divide

You're only locked into playing the bottom half teams, so you have a better chance of picking up points and moving up the table.

As for the teams at the top, it would make the competition for Europe more interesting as everyone will be beating everyone.

By the end of the season some of the top half teams would end up in the bottom half, and some of the bottom half teams would move into the top half.

Imagine a relegation fight. Ignore this season and imagination this system in place. As Sheffield United sat 20th at the halfway point, would you rather play the bottom half teams for the remainder of the season, or continue to be whooped by Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal etc who are literally a league apart from you on and off the pitch even though you're in the same league.

Come the new season it all starts over.

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Three teams would still get relegated, so it would make exactly no difference to the overall chance of staying up. The matches would be slightly easier (for everyone in the bottom half), but the points required for survival would be higher.

Surely the points required to stay up would be lower, as everyone would be beating each other so the gap shouldn't widen that much as a result.

 

[raimond]

On instinct, having lost in the last 3 months to Luton, Burnley, Wolves, Brentford, Forest and Everton (amongst the others) I don't feel this would have made a huge amount of difference to us.

 

[raimond]

Imagine a relegation fight. Ignore this season and imagination this system in place. As Sheffield United sat 20th at the halfway point, would you rather play the bottom half teams for the remainder of the season, or continue to be whooped by Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal etc who are literally a league apart from you on and off the pitch even though you're in the same league.

Would you rather get twatted by the good teams, or get twatted by the shite teams? It's an interesting question, like would you rather your wife run off with a good looking f***er or an ugly f***er?

 

[Geordie Blade]

Surely the points required to stay up would be lower, as everyone would be beating each other so the gap shouldn't widen that much as a result.

"Everybody beating each other" means that the teams at the bottom will pick up more points. Hence, the total needed to stay up will be higher.

 

[Rochdaleblade]

You're only locked into playing the bottom half teams, so you have a better chance of picking up points and moving up the table.

As for the teams at the top, it would make the competition for Europe more interesting as everyone will be beating everyone.

By the end of the season some of the top half teams would end up in the bottom half, and some of the bottom half teams would move into the top half.

Imagine a relegation fight. Ignore this season and imagination this system in place. As Sheffield United sat 20th at the halfway point, would you rather play the bottom half teams for the remainder of the season, or continue to be whooped by Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal etc who are literally a league apart from you on and off the pitch even though you're in the same league.

Come the new season it all starts over.

You would have more chance of winning against the other bottom teams, but they would also have the same increased chance. You have achieved nothing except losing the income from at least 5 home games, and now have teams playing uneven numbers of home fixtures. So no.