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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2401802, member: 1764"] The ARL in 1995 adopted an 8-team finals series similar to the AFL system. However, it had a flaw in that teams 1 and 4 and 2 and 3 could meet in week 1 and week 3. It greatly limited the Grand Final possibilities - ie, teams 2 and 3 could never be in the GF, just as teams 1 and 4 couldn't. They changed it in 1996 to be as the AFL system is now to ensure the "losers" from the top 4 end up on the opposite side of the draw from those that beat them. The only combinations in that system that can't meet in the GF are, quite logically since they eliminate eachother in week 1, 5 vs 8 and 6 vs 7. The 1998 series was a top 10 series which was basically 2 x top 5s played over 5 weeks. [/QUOTE]

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