Issues between the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers rise and so does tension.
The Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia is home to both the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers.
The two teams often have to coordinate their schedules, with each team given the opportunity to choose games at the beginning of the year. According to Dan Hilferty, the process is cooperative.
However, David Adelman of the Philadelphia 76ers has disputed this claim, suggesting that the Flyers are given priority over the 76ers, especially when it comes to booking dates.
«We want to control our own destiny,» Adelman said in June. «What do I mean by that? When you look at schedule, and you guys are sports guys so I want you to do some research � we play more 5 out of 7 nights and more back to backs than anyone else in the league, on average. We've been home once for Christmas the last 11 years, I think. The way the schedule works is the Flyers get their dates, the concerts get their dates, and then we get the rest. You don't see us with a lot of weekend day games, but you see the Flyers with a lot of them. Great, it's their building, they should do what they want. (But) you guys do the math. We wound up as the three seed (in the playoffs) this year. Imagine if we had a few less back to back games or a few less five games out of seven or six games out of seven. That makes a difference.»
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Adelman's concerns are supported by the fact that the 76ers have not had a Christmas game in years.
Although CrossingBroad does not have access to proprietary scheduling information, they have confirmed that the Flyers have been above the league average for back-to-back games since 2013.
decade now. That's what he told us on the YouTube show.
We do not have access to proprietary scheduling data, which is sent to teams by the NBA league office, but we can reverse engineer the talking points, to an extent, using NBA Stuffer and other websites. This is where we need an intern for data parsing, but I was able to find out that:
The Sixers, this year, were one of eight teams that twice had to play five games in seven nights (the other 22 teams did this once or not at all).
They played, this year, 13 back to backs, while seven teams played 14 and five teams played 15.
The Sixers played 43 times this year on one day of rest, which was top half of the league.
Same for two days rest, which was also on the higher side, so they generally had a more compact schedule.
It looks like the back to back issues crested during the process era, and have moved closer to the league average in recent years. Keep in mind, Comcast sold the Sixers to HBSE back in 2011.
They have indeed only played one Christmas home game over the past 11 years. They've played three on the road during that time frame, and there was a huge gap between 2002 and 2016 where they didn't get any Xmas games at all, because the team stunk and was not compelling. The thing about Christmas is that you only get those coveted slots if you don't suck, and the Sixers did a lot of sucking over a 15-year span.
Over recent years, it looks like the 5 in 7s have been hitting over the NBA league average more than the back to backs, so opposite trends for those data sets.
We do not have access to proprietary scheduling data, which is sent to teams by the NBA league office, but we can reverse engineer the talking points, to an extent, using NBA Stuffer and other websites. This is where we need an intern for data parsing, but I was able to find out that:
The Sixers, this year, were one of eight teams that twice had to play five games in seven nights (the other 22 teams did this once or not at all).
They played, this year, 13 back to backs, while seven teams played 14 and five teams played 15.
The Sixers played 43 times this year on one day of rest, which was top half of the league.
Same for two days rest, which was also on the higher side, so they generally had a more compact schedule.
It looks like the back to back issues crested during the process era, and have moved closer to the league average in recent years. Keep in mind, Comcast sold the Sixers to HBSE back in 2011.
They have indeed only played one Christmas home game over the past 11 years. They've played three on the road during that time frame, and there was a huge gap between 2002 and 2016 where they didn't get any Xmas games at all, because the team stunk and was not compelling. The thing about Christmas is that you only get those coveted slots if you don't suck, and the Sixers did a lot of sucking over a 15-year span.
Over recent years, it looks like the 5 in 7s have been hitting over the NBA league average more than the back to backs, so opposite trends for those data sets.
It seems that the Wells Fargo Arena is frequently booked with other events, making scheduling even more challenging for both teams.
While it might be beneficial for the 76ers and Flyers to schedule independently, the dispute remains unresolved.
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