Don't worry about scolding the basketball association! WCBA continues to have benefits to the conference system Yao's proposal makes sense

Don't look at the Chinese women's basketball team is now so good, in fact, the attention of the WCBA is very low, only a very small number of fans will pay attention, often only some negative news or the finals will look at more.

On July 6, Beijing time, some media broke the news that the Chinese Basketball Association proposed two sets of plans for the 2023-24 WCBA league, one is home and away, and the other is the conference system, of which the conference system has been protested by many clubs.

For the proposal of the Chinese Basketball Association's conference system, netizens also expressed their puzzlement: "What else does the club do, everyone trains every day." "It's time to go back to the physical team."

But some netizens still expressed understanding: "Investors must choose a home-and-away plan, but to be honest, playing home-and-away, the women's basketball team can't sell many tickets, so it's better to save money than the tournament system." ”

In fact, whether it is a conference system or a home-and-away system, the WCBA league is expected to have only 17 rounds of the regular season in the new season, and after the regular season, it will enter a nearly two-month offseason, and the Chinese women's basketball team will begin to fully prepare for the Paris Olympic qualification tournament, which is a key game related to the Olympic quota.

And wait until the Olympic qualification round is over, that is, in February next year, the WCBA will enter the All-Star Game, playoffs, and finals, and the playoffs use a best-of-three system, and the finals are a best-of-five system.

To put it bluntly, as Yao Ming said in public before, whether it is the CBA or WCBA, they will go all out to make way for the national team's competition, after all, next year is the year of the Olympic Games, if the Chinese women's basketball team can't get the ticket to the Olympic Games, who can afford this responsibility?

As we all know, WCBA is now a two-strong competition between Sichuan and Inner Mongolia, and if Yang Liwei, Huang Sijing, and Li Yueru return to the Guangdong women's basketball team, it will be Sichuan-Guangdong hegemony. Therefore, the two teams gathered most of the national players, and letting them return to the national team training early is definitely conducive to preparing for the Paris Olympics.

More importantly, don't look at the current results of the Chinese women's basketball team, in fact, the attention of the WCBA is very low, only a very small number of fans will pay attention, often only some negative news or the finals will look at more.

Once the home and away games, the cost has air tickets, hotels, venue fees and other costs, WCBA ticket fees and dare not sell too expensive, some games even 20 yuan a person is not bought, expect to rely on tickets to recover the cost is simply unrealistic, moreover, WCBA does not have any peripheral products, so if it is home and away, the club will lose more, it is better to save money than the conference system.

Imagine if a venue with a few thousand people sat empty during the regular season and a few hundred people or even less. Don't use the games with Yang Shuyu, Li Meng and other balloon stars to infer the entire attendance, like these stars to a certain away game, a season is almost one or two games, then what about other ordinary games without stars? What if there is no one to watch? It is better to carry out the conference system, play non-focus matches in the afternoon, focus matches in the evening, buy a ticket to watch two games, which is good for fans and the football market.

Therefore, don't worry about scolding the basketball association and Yao Ming for reversing history, the market for women's basketball is like this now, the whole world is like this, and the WCBA is no exception.