I like the idea of all teams playing each other, but obviously it leads to different quantities of games against each other.
On the flip side, the typical Big Ten schedule has at least one team playing out of conference each week (due to an odd number of teams) and you play 8 of the other 12 teams.
If the conference schedule were to be accomplished over 8 weeks, this would mean 4 "pod" weeks (four games, two against each of two opponents) and 4 normal 3-game series for each team, for a total of 28 games rather than 24 games. It would also eat into the number of non-conference games a team could schedule, and would hurt RPI as a result.
I haven't looked at the actual scheduling, just a musing.
I think they go back to the old scheduling and we play just 8 of 12 teams. Looking at last year's schedule (before the season was cancelled), we were scheduled to play everyone except Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan State... so we would not have played the three geographically closest teams in the regular season (Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois).
On the flip side, the typical Big Ten schedule has at least one team playing out of conference each week (due to an odd number of teams) and you play 8 of the other 12 teams.
If the conference schedule were to be accomplished over 8 weeks, this would mean 4 "pod" weeks (four games, two against each of two opponents) and 4 normal 3-game series for each team, for a total of 28 games rather than 24 games. It would also eat into the number of non-conference games a team could schedule, and would hurt RPI as a result.
I haven't looked at the actual scheduling, just a musing.
I think they go back to the old scheduling and we play just 8 of 12 teams. Looking at last year's schedule (before the season was cancelled), we were scheduled to play everyone except Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan State... so we would not have played the three geographically closest teams in the regular season (Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois).