Hoops

Change in teams for Div 2

That is a valid point. Each team should play once at home and once away.

The biggest issue with basketball in Adelaide is that the relative strength of the clubs is too far apart. With everything if life you expect variation and there will always be a strong club and a weak club, but the issue is that there is too much extreme between the two at the moment.

Using the standard deviation approach and looking at the teams in div 2, the following can be said that most teams are +/- 2.5 sigma of what is expected at that level. There are some teams outside this that should not be in that division.

Anon touched on zoning and this has been done to death before.

Snoop, any team playing in a division should be competitive. I am not talking about the competitiveness of teams. Having ten teams in both div 1 and div 2 provides for balanced scheduling. Div 1's at home, Div 2's away etc.

Traditionally, the div 2 comp has been a 12 team comp to permit the placement of a Torrens Valley and Western Magic team with the 10 club teams. When one of those associate clubs hasn't been able to field a team, an extra team has been added.

BSA promised to drop the div 2 down to a 10 team comp, which is a promise it must keep or else it will be viewed as an inept governing body unable to provide a clear, firm direction.

Take for example a family with one player in U12 div 2 and one in U14 div 2 playing at a club without a second team. At home, U12 at 6 pm, U14 at 7 pm. Simple. Family can go to one stadium, watch both teams. But as some clubs have insufficient court space at their stadiums and the second team gets second choice, there may be a time when they are split between stadiums. Doesn't sound like much of a problem for someone only 5 mins away from a stadium, but can be for some families.

In reference to whether the second teams should be playing div 2. Many of them are strong enough to be playing div 2. A lot of clubs use their second div 2 team to play all their bottom age kids ready for div 1 next year. I see one second team who is top of their div who have stayed as a team for a while. They are the U14 div 1 girls from Winter 2010, play U16 div 2 in Winter 2011 and next Winter 2012 will be div 1 U16.

Without commenting specifically on a team, I think each club knows in their heart how competitive a team should be and should nominate them in an appropriate division.

I see it working pretty well actually.