ASV goes to Elite (part 2)

It has been a great honour for me to open JP Århus and to find a picture of mine in the sport section.
It has been taken at the game we played against Frederiksberg, the day that we officially owned the right to play in Elite next year.

Even if there were my picture, the article was about the game with a short interview to our coach and a longer one to Niels, asking him what his plans for the future are.

It has been thanks to this article that I found out how next season would be organized.
I knew there would have been only 8 teams who´d have played a "regular" season, but I hoped it would have been a 2 leg´s league (home and away game against the same team), and may be semi-finals and finals at the best of 5 games.
In stead I found out that there are 3 legs: 2 home matches and 1 away (or 1 home match and 2 away) against the same team with semi-finals and finals at the best of 3 games.

Why am I writing this in the post?

Because last year there had been someone who had complained, or has expressed his doubts about the evaluation system for the selection of the best players of the season, and after his post, magically, the system has been changed.

Now, I don´t pretend to be so important to adjust the Danish volleyball system according to my desires, but I´m just offering few suggestions:

- I personally think that the 3 legs league is meaningless. Why 3 legs? Just because there are 3 legs in the Danish soccer league, it doesn´t mean we have to get that system too in volleyball.
If the idea is that a team has to play around 24/26 games in one year, it would be a solution to play a 2 legs regular league, play-offs at the best of 5 games. It would be a minimum of 14 games, but entering the play-offs a team can play between 17 and 27 games.
May be we could also play home and away matches in the Lufthansa Cup, but still playing the final in Odense;

- If the system has been changed, why not changing also the point system? Almost all the best leagues in the world has the 3-points system for a victory (3-0 or 3-1), 2 points to win the tie-break and 1 point to loose the tie-brek. I believe this system really shows the real value of the teams, because if a team is better than the others and wins most of the games in 3 or 4 sets, it must have more points of who wins a lot of game but always at the 5th set.

In my opinion, as an ASV player, this system will make the league much more excited: for a team as ours it would be easier to win 2 sets than 3. It would be easier to get one point in Gentofte if we know we "just" need two sets, or against Marienlyst, Sk and the other top teams which we´ll fight for the league.

I don´t know how many would agree with this, but it would also help to fight the Jantelov(unfortunatly, only Danish readers can understand what I´m talking about), having smaller goals which can be reached easier can give players, and coaches, the confidence in themselves that they can do it, that they can play in Marienlystcenter or at Kildeskovshallen and come back home with 1 important point.
In the same way it would help the players to have a constant focus all the game long, because it won´t be the same, in terms of points, to win in 4 or in 5 sets.