McIntyre System

[Black_Orange_White]

If you finish 8th and win the grand final, you deserve it. You verse the top 4 in all (if not most) of the games in the run to the grand final.

 

[Zaibatsu]

The Macintyre system is rubbish. It is unfair that the team who ran third or fourth can be eliminated because the team who came first doesn't show up and loses to the team that ran eighth. When that happens (as it did last year) it doesn't affect the team that ran first at all, but it kills off somebody else.

The AFL system is much superior. And it has to be top eight, as it creates an extra week of play-offs, TV rights, sponsorships and hopefully excitement. It also keeps the competition alive until the last game often as there are always a lot of teams vying for 7th and 8th.

Agree 100%

The McIntyre system leaves itself very much open for exploitation, if the teams who finish 1st and 2nd wanted to, they could throw their first matches and therefore eliminate two of better sides whilst keeping 7th & 8th in the frame deliberately to make things easier later on…

I could never imagine teams doing it, but the fact that the option is there is pretty bad.

AFL system wins hands down, theres no "dead rubbers" as the McIntyre system serves up, every match has a lot of importance placed on it and the match-ups are always closer, no 1st v 8th etc.