Hammer9001
Registered User
Because it's not necessary. This has been brought up over and over again. Someone has posted a chart with the mileage and the current alignment is the best option.
I’d be interested to see this chart if anyone has it.
I posted it a while back, and the current alignment isn't the best option. Here is the file, but I made it viewer only, and while it should be fine to download, in the interest of encouraging good computer safety habits, copy paste it into excel and play around with it yourself.
I never said which alignment would be the best, although my test alignment came out as superior to the current one, I didn't number crunch this to find the complete perfect alignment. I don't think that it should be the final alignment as it ruins the Kitchener/Guelph rivalry, gives the Mid-West division a substantial overall travel advantage.
Really the only change in alignment I'd like to see is Hamilton and Mississauga change places as that benefits 6 teams (Ottawa, Kingston, Peterborough, Oshawa, Hamilton and Niagara) to 4 teams detriment (Sudbury, North Bay, Barrie, Mississauga). However, this change doesn't substantially change a lot. It is more to accommodate Ottawa and Kingston who have harsher total travel then Sudbury and North Bay; and that Mississauga has the current easiest travel in the league, they can endure being in the east. That said, I acknowledge that change would produce a small amount of less total travel, it would put more travel on the already high central division.
It also probably would be better for those teams as Hamilton and Niagara tend to be good draws due to the short distances involved, and I would think Mississauga and Oshawa would as well.
EDIT: Two things
1. This sheet is arena to arena, not city core, to city core.
2. If it is not clear, my Test Alignment was West Stays the same, Mid-West becomes South with Hamilton, Niagara, London, Kitchener and Erie, Central becomes North with Sudbury, North Bay, Barrie, Owen Sound, Guelph and East stays the same, only Mississauga moves over to replace Hamilton.
That said, again I don't advocate for it, as it gives the new South division a substantial advantage in terms of travel over everyone else.
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