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As far as the two seasons, as I think I said before, my guess is the league figured there would be a lot of univeristy players playing which would have to go back late August. Or other transfers they may be available after the spring season or in the Fall, in or out...in both cases, that would be unfair to top of the table teams who lost players along the way, that they had all season if there was only 1 season.


In th PCL back when Cannons were here, they split season so late season call ups to major league teams didn’t sewer the strong farm team’s standing they had built up over 5 prior months when calling all the top prospects up for a late mlb season look.

Or, for the CPL, to split the season up so that teams (and game attendance)weren’t all but out of the race come late June, with 4 months still to go, and would potentially allow teams to reload for a second shot and keep fan interest up.

But I do agree, playing into late October and having the final in late October, is too long. Weather has a good chance of being very nasty, injuries, conflict with other sports hurts attendance, and in general, weather change takes a lot of the talent and skill out of games when the elements become a big factor.

Not sure why the season is so long in first place. Could’ve had seasons of 12 and 12 and be almost done by end of Sept. I guess because players had no other options to play anywhere past a certain point in time anyways? Ie transfers to mls or obviously USports is cut off before the CPL season could properly end, so they play more games just because? Or they want to have the guarantee of wages for players last longer, for purposes of recruitment of players?

I’m sure there will be tweaks in season 2 to a bunch of things for a new league, including the schedule.