IPL 5

[aftabu]

Re: IPL 5

@GoldenAsif

It is not even a proper league format!!

A league format comprising 9 teams equals 36 games (8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1)

It seems that each IPL team is playing every other team **twice

**i.e. 36 x 2 = 72 games + 4 KO games (76 games altogether)

It will be better to have one more team and then split the 10 teams into two groups of 5 each, have a league format within each group with the top 2 teams from each group reaching the semis

or

If you don’t want groups, then have fewer teams say a max. of 6. Nine teams is just too many IMO

And yes the final should be a best of three contest

Well… you assumed that in a league team play each other only once. Generally they play each other twice ( home and away). So in that respect IPL is a league.

PS: I do not like this many games in IPL. Just trying to explain here.