This makes sense

By: Melissa | January 30th, 2009

The internets are a-buzzin’ with news of the WPS playoffs format. The internets are a-buzzin’ not only because the story got picked up by The New York Times Goal Blog, but also because there are a slew of WPS blogs out there just dying for you to get to know. Oh yeah, and the WPS playoffs format is kinda cool because it rewards teams during the regular season by letting the team with the best record sit out two eliminations rounds. The number three and number four teams battle it out and the winner plays the number two team. Then the number one team plays the winner of the last elimination game for the final at the number one team’s home stadium. So at the end of the day, it all looks something like this:

Which does look a little bit like a chemical component of some sort. Chemistry buffs should feel free to speculate on what WPS really created in the comments. The Sports Illustrated article calls it a modification of the Australian A-League format (another league with a small number of teams) and I also see similarities to USL’s W-League; since last year’s regular season winner, Pali Blues got to sit and wait til their opponent for the final emerged from knockout rounds. So yeah, this thing just seems like a natural progression of what already was.

And the league is looking a bit more like a league and now that there are quite a few more players, we’ve even got some predictions on each team’s performance – which is cool. So I’ll leave you with something completely unrelated but totally awesome… Two city construction road signs near the University of Texas were hacked Monday morning (Jan 26th) warning the residents of Austin that a zombie attack was imminent.

Category: Completely off-topic, WPS News

Tags: Completely off-topic, Playoffs, WPS News

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• annie |  January 30th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

  
  
  

  Damn I was in austin today, right by the UT, too bad I wasn’t there Monday.

  I like the format,it seems most people do.

  I’ll post it on ONTD_football tomorrow

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• Samantha |  January 31st, 2009 at 8:46 am

  
  
  

  Whoa, time out. You mean ontd_football posts about more than Cescy and donuts? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just didn’t know. I’ll have to check it out again.

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• annie |  January 31st, 2009 at 11:14 am

  
  
  

  Cesc really likes donuts, what are you gonna do

  all the girls stuff is under “soul sistas”

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• Samantha |  January 31st, 2009 at 1:17 pm

  
  
  

  I joined when ONTD_football was just starting and that Cesc Republic stuff was hilarious! I just checked out the first page and there is a ginormous picture of Carlos Bocanegra without his shirt on which leads me to believe I need go back to check the site out every hour on the hour.

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• Melissa |  January 31st, 2009 at 1:21 pm

  
  
  

  I stopped reading for a while too cause that blog was turning into “let’s all drool over the Spain National team” blog. It just takes a few to inject a little variety so thanks annie.

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