By Ryan Solis, PFL Correspondent.
The PFL Executive Committee will meet this weekend and it is due to be one of the most interesting in recent times. With the league compacting from 20 teams to 16, there will be lots of things to sort out. Divisional re-alignment, conference structure, schedules, play-off format and roster sizes are all going to be thrashed out this weekend.
It is believed that the league will be continuing with an eighteen game season spread over twenty weeks, with two less teams making the play-offs; eight teams instead of ten.
We don’t know if the conferences will be kept, how they will align- we know there has to be change as the AC East only has three teams and the NC West has five. The start of the season will also be open for debate. Currently the season lasts twenty weeks and then follows three rounds before the Crystal Bowl- five weeks in total. The date of 4th March is already booked up for the Crystal Bowl. With one less round of play-off action (if that is confirmed) the season will either:
- need to start one week later
- have an extra weeks break before the Crystal Bowl
- break for a week before the play-offs
or - move the Crystal Bowl forward by one week.
We’ll report back from the meeting to give the lowdown on what may be a heated executive meeting. We haven’t even touched on any proposed rule changes!
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