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buffmckagan
Joined: 12/22/2013
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Not that the World Classic's current format is bad, but just a thought: what if there were qualifying games at the end of the season, but before the preseason to help decide which teams make it to the World Classic?

It would truly put the best teams into the Classic each year. And you could re-use the same rosters from that year's Classic in these games.

There's 51 nations currently represented in Broken Bat, so I figure you could try to split them up geographically:

The Americas (18)
Argentina, Aruba, The Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, The United States, The Virgin Islands

Europe (17)
Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Africa, Asia and Oceania (16)
Austalia, China, Guam, Hong Kong, Israel, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, New Zealand, Pakistan, The Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

All of the teams would play a one-game round robin against every team, with the home and away teams for each game switching every other year. (Example: Thailand is the away team vs. Taiwan in 2028, but Taiwan is the away team in 2029, etc.)

The top six teams in each division would be guaranteed spots in the World Classic - 18 spots guaranteed - in order to promote cultural diversity and give each division a fair shot at producing Classic teams. The counterpart would be that the Americas would have the most competitive battle for the top six spots, but the idea would be the other 10 teams would still have a fair shot at earning one of the 14 remaining spots.

The remaining 33 teams would be split into 11 groups of 3, with a round-robin format as well. The top 11 teams would be guaranteed spots in the World Classic, and the remaining 22 teams would be placed in a single-elimination format, with the top 2 teams earning spots in the Classic and a consolation match for the losers of the semifinals, whom would play a winner-take all game to take the final spot.

TLDR: Round robins decide which of the 32 teams make the World Classic, rather than just what Steve might want for one year.

With this format, it could add some interest into the end of the regular season since many teams are not going to be competing for championships. These players would not get any training or extra salary, just could be fun. It would be during the dead period after the championships. Due to the lack of parity among the teams, the best teams would almost always make it anyways.

Another drawback is that this could be difficult to implement, and if that's the case, it's not a big deal. I just thought it could be a fun idea if it was easy to implement and not thought to be excessive by the community.
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On of the problem with qualifying games is that most of the smaller nations don't have enough player to field full teams.

Steve
newtman
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Right now I don't think any countries that have full teams are left out... don't think it is "the teams Steve decides should be in," it is more like the countries that have the minimum number of players.
terryhumphreys
Joined: 01/20/2014
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make a world classic team from the players of the countries that don't make it to the world classic. That way every player would have a chance to be chosen for the world classic.
jreynoldson913
Joined: 08/18/2015
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+1

I like that idea for the smaller countries this could enable us to put more countries into the game

the qualifying games would make the offseason longer which I am fine with given that in like 1 year real time we go through like 4 seasons also this would enable users to have a longer time getting new managers, relocating, etc.


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