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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3559374, member: 9052"] The worst case scenario for the top 4 under McIntyre would be 1-4 all losing in week 1. That would mean 3rd and 4th eliminated straight away 5th and 6th into the prelims with a home final I would assume 1st and 2nd get to keep their home ground advantage even though they lost, but cant remember. EDIT: just saw above that 1st and 2nd would also lose their home ground advantage. Completely messed up system. Basically means the whole season only provides a reward for the first week of the finals, which is pretty crap. Either way McIntyre ended up being pretty messed up, because if 1st or 2nd lost in week 1 then 3rd - 6th were all at risk of being eliminated week 1 if they lost. I think that's effectively why it was changed to the current system. Can recall leading up to the change in formats that 7th and 8th had made some runs in the finals and higher up teams were being eliminated effectively discounting the entire season that had taken place. Warriors beating storm from 8th in 2011?? Parra's run in 2009 came from 8th as well It also meant that NRL were getting high quality matches throughout the finals instead of 1st and 2nd usually beating up on teams scraping into the 8 [/QUOTE]

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