Sports League Championship properties

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    1. Can we add the properties similar to the sports league championship type (http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/sports/sports_championship)?

      Football competition seems rather empty...

      1. OK, some thoughts...

         We could simply include the sports league championship type, which would cause all competitions to be co-typed as sports league championships, but are all competitions championships?  I don't know the semantics here.

         Another thing to think about wrt included types... are such competitions events, recurring events, or anything like that?  I note that some are already co-typed as such.  It seems reasonable that any given competition would have a start and end date and whatnot.

         Or... another thought... should this type be used for "World Cup" or for "2008 World Cup"?  Seems to me we've got the event/recurring event pattern going on here.  Perhaps we should have two types?

      2. I did get confused with the two types, and you helped with your explation, so do I get this right (to use baseball):

        * The World Series is a "recurring event"

        * The 2008 World Series is an "event"

        ?

        If that's the case, then football is littered with these so could do with some clarification.

        I guess at the same time, does the "2008 MLB Season" then is a "sports league season", with "2008 World Series" as it's "championship"?

        But then for the 2008 World Series (http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006b8b47a), I don't get why it's a "sports league championship event", and an "event". Why doesn't one include the other?

      3. I've added a few football events to the following .. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/fa_cup

        I think there is a fundamental problem with the way all of these schema types are inheriting from each other .. Personally I think that we need a general "Sports Competition" from which both "Football Competiton" and "Sports League" derive. It would probably be enough just to rename/alias the Sports League Championship types, as the only thing that is wrong at the momentis the semantics - i.e. League and Season, It should just be Sports Championship (or Competition) and Season should be ok, but needs a more general term such as Period/Instance/Term

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