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Fritzlein
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #15 on: Jul 10th, 2010, 4:39am » |
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on Jul 10th, 2010, 3:15am, megajester wrote:| Also, if there's no objection, I'd like to round official ratings up or down to the nearest 100. In the last season everybody's ratings were chaging by something silly like one or two points each round, which created a LOT of work for me. |
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Woah, that's potentially a lot of points. If ratings are only changing by a point or two every round, then rounding to the nearest 10 should be sufficient to avoid almost all the updates, right?
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #16 on: Jul 17th, 2010, 11:32am » |
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on Jul 8th, 2010, 11:17am, megajester wrote:| Week 1 of the Sequel needs to be this Monday. |
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It seems to me that we are still finalizing things. Is this correct or should I be getting a roster ready for Monday?
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #17 on: Jul 17th, 2010, 1:40pm » |
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Right! Let's get this party started!
Unfortunately we haven't had nearly enough interest for the Bot Squad. So that one's shelved for the time being.
I've redrafted the rules. I know it looks like a total revamp, but all I've actually done is made things a bit clearer (I hope) and made some implicit aspects more explicit.
The only fundamental changes are as follows:
- The LD's word is final in any dispute (see 3; 4; 8.1.5.1; and 8.1.6)
- Ratings are rounded to the nearest 10 (6.3.2)
- A captain can only overspend or underspend by 700 points in his initial roster without being penalized. Substitutions are unaffected. (6.3.3)
- A forfeit's a forfeit. (7.3)
Fasten your seatbelts people, because Week 1 starts on Monday!
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #18 on: Jul 17th, 2010, 1:47pm » |
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One question, what penalty is imposed if the captain doesn't fit in the appropriate range?
Imagine a situation where, say the average rating is 1800, and Europa has only three players available, rated 2600, 2000, and 1600. This admittedly unlikely scenario would make it absolutely impossible to fall within the limit, but even if the disparities were less, I'd still rather a team be able to field a trio, even if overpowered, than be forced to forfeit games, depriving the other team of a match as well.
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #19 on: Jul 17th, 2010, 2:01pm » |
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on Jul 17th, 2010, 1:47pm, Sconibulus wrote:One question, what penalty is imposed if the captain doesn't fit in the appropriate range?
Imagine a situation where, say the average rating is 1800, and Europa has only three players available, rated 2600, 2000, and 1600. This admittedly unlikely scenario would make it absolutely impossible to fall within the limit, but even if the disparities were less, I'd still rather a team be able to field a trio, even if overpowered, than be forced to forfeit games, depriving the other team of a match as well. |
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In the scenario you've just given Europa would have an overspend of 800 points, just above the limit I've proposed. If we take the average last time around, which was 1920, your scenario would represent an overspend of 420, so no penalty.
Besides, it's not forbidden to field an overpowered team, you just have to pay for it. It's all there in the rules for people to read. I even posted a link. 
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #20 on: Jul 20th, 2010, 9:51am » |
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Would it be productive to clear the rosters of the four teams, re-announce the season in the game room, and have everyone re-enlist for the team of their choice? I sense the possibility that there isn't enough enthusiasm to make a second season fly right now. Clearing the roster would allow the Rockies to see exactly where (between three and nine) our active participation will be.
If there aren't enough participants for a four-team, six-round season, we could perhaps still play a two-team, four-round season by merging the Rockies and Atlantics into a single team (US?) and Europa and Ring of Fire into a single team (THEM?) with four or five boards per round.
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #21 on: Jul 20th, 2010, 3:45pm » |
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on Jul 20th, 2010, 9:51am, Fritzlein wrote:| If there aren't enough participants for a four-team, six-round season, we could perhaps still play a two-team, four-round season by merging the Rockies and Atlantics into a single team (US?) and Europa and Ring of Fire into a single team (THEM?) with four or five boards per round. |
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I really despise that Idea we should just make people
resign up and raise awareness like on the main page
we could put an ad that says something like arimaa world league sing up now and put a linkto the sign up
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #22 on: Jul 21st, 2010, 2:38am » |
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I made a post two weeks ago in which I said people should change clubs if they wanted to, and nobody did. The Sequel has in fact already started, on Monday. You can check out the fixtures list in the wiki, I'll be calculating the budget and updating the wiki more fully later on today.
Survey results are encouraging, but like you Fritz, I too am worried at the lack of player responses in the forum. So, I'm going to pull a little stunt in another thread to see what kind of player presence we have...
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #23 on: Jul 21st, 2010, 1:32pm » |
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on Jul 21st, 2010, 2:38am, megajester wrote:| I made a post two weeks ago in which I said people should change clubs if they wanted to, and nobody did. |
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Errr, that mostly misses the point. If everyone has lost interest and disappeared, of course nobody will change clubs. Everyone will just remain as deadwood on the roster. Even if someone is still around they have little incentive to change clubs unless they know some other club is short of members and more likely to field them. Only if we re-enroll will people have an idea which club is shortest on volunteers, which is likely the strongest incentive to jump ship.
But I guess the opportunity has passed, and we'll know soon enough if the captains have trouble finding three volunteers for next week.
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #24 on: Jul 26th, 2010, 8:47am » |
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just to check, how do captains submit rosters? By sending a PM to megajester?
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #25 on: Jul 26th, 2010, 9:14am » |
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on Jul 26th, 2010, 8:47am, chessandgo wrote:| just to check, how do captains submit rosters? By sending a PM to megajester? |
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Yes, that's I how I always do it.
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #26 on: Jul 26th, 2010, 10:46am » |
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Ok thanks Greg, did it on friday, but started getting second thoughts this morning 
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #27 on: Jul 29th, 2010, 11:31am » |
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Rimbit is already there:
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #28 on: Jul 29th, 2010, 1:16pm » |
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Your drawings always bring a laugh
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Re: Second Season
« Reply #29 on: Jul 29th, 2010, 7:10pm » |
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Nice one, leo! Let's get Omar to swap that in to the login page as part of your ongoing series.
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