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DEL Time: 08:11

Request For: College Football
Request Title: Bowl lineup
Description
I would like to see the bowl list updated. After changes, not including the championship game, there would be 39 bowl games (net increase of 8). If there are not enough teams available, I'd propose we fill with human coached 5-7 teams using standard ranking.
Although this would provide more realism, last season, Dolphin had only 65 teams with 6 or more wins. We would need 13 more teams with 22 teams in the league at 5-7. Only four of those 5-7 teams are human coached; but, this would give humans an extra game during what otherwise would be down time.
I don't know exaclty how the conference tie-ins are done in the Sim, I've listed the current real-life ones. There is also a major new contract for the big conferences next real-life season; but, I don't think the Sim fully follows that anyway.
Defunct Bowls:
International
Poinsetta
New Bowls:
Bahamas (CUSA vs. MAC)
Frisco (AAC vs. at large)
Cure (AAC vs. Sunbelt)
Boca Raton (MAC vs. AAC)
Camelia (MAC vs. Sunbelt)
Gasparilla (CUSA vs. ACC/AAC)
Military (AAC vs. ACC/ND)
Pinstripe (B1G vs. ACC/ND)
First Responder (B12 vs. CUSA)
Arizona (MWC vs. Sunbelt)
Renamed Bowls:
Champs Sports > Camping World
Insight > Cheez-It
Meineke Car Care > Belk (although Belk is dropping after this year)
Emerald > Redbox
Motor City > Quicklane
GMAC > Lending Tree
Humanitarian > Idaho Potato
Papa Johns > Birmingham

Category: Other
Status: Completed (last updated Jan 11 13:17:13 2020 )
Priority: Top Priority

Admin Notes
CCEL bowls have been updated (number of bowls increased, names and tie-ins updated) to match the 2019 NCAA football season's bowl list and tie-ins.

Submitted Dec 3 09:14:43 2019 by Loren Smith
Coaches In Favor of Change: Loren Smith, Bobby C, John HenryDos
Coaches Opposed to Change: none

Comments
John HenryDos: I am for at least an update to match the current bowl names and affiliations. Any non-down time would be welcome too, so adding bowls would be appreciated.
Loren Smith (Jan 1 16:59:19 2020 ): Adding comment regarding number of teams. In Real-life, there are 79 teams eligible for 78 spots. If not enough eligible teams, 5-7 teams are then eligible, with highest APR getting the spot. In DEL, as noted in my original post, we had only 65 teams last season. The APR doesn't make sense for Dolphin (we don't care about academics), so I suggested we make sure the 5-7 human teams get first chance. Then simply standard ranking for the Bob teams. I suppose if you want to mimic APR, you could add up the In attribute for each team's roster. Regarding not giving preference to 5-7 human coaches; I was just suggesting that based on the CBEL selections for the NIT.

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