With this years league winding down, I just wanted to give you guys a heads up on where we are going for 2013.
First the league rules will remain largely intact. Games from this year can still carry over. However the one major change we are making is we are altering the scoring system and eliminating the playoffs.
1 - Elimination of the playoffs.
We are doing this b/c it simply takes too much time in AA50. Particularly with 4 players qualifying. We are routinely crowning the champions in late summer or even fall of the next season and this is far too late. This isn’t the fault of the players it is just that AA50 games can take a while to play and we’d like to crown the league champions much sooner. We also intended for these “playoff” games to be followed and discussed, but it seems b/c they can take place so late players have already moved on to their next seasons games.
With the elimination of the playoffs that leads us to #2
2 - New scoring.
We will be using a point based system to crown the top three (gold, silver, bronze). Win % doesn’t quite work in this case when you can have someone 6-2 or 9-3. They’d have the same win % but who would be #1. Plus there is the possibility to cherry pick opponents.
The scoring will be similar to the old Revised leagues, but a bit easier. You will still be sorted by Win% but you will receive more points for beating better players. So, you get
10 pts if you beat someone who has a 90-100 win %
9 for 80-89.9…
90-100 = 10 pts per win
80-89.9 = 9
70-79.9 = 8
60-69.9 = 7
50-59.9 = 6
40-49.9 = 5
30-39.9 = 4
20-29.9 = 3
10-19.9 = 2
0.0-9.9 = 1
You will also lose 4 points per loss.
Yes, this system rewards players who play more games, and more specifically has more wins. But one of the main focuses of the league is to encourage game play so we consider this a positive. However, we will once again divide the league to major and minor, so it isn’t just those that play the most win. The likely cutoff will be similar to this year: 8-12 (or 13) games for the minor league, 13+ (or 14+) for major. Still working on last details.
Note: Gamerman will still be doing his rankings and using a ppg dynamic to rate players. But as always that would have no bearing on who would win the league.
A final byproduct of the new scoring/no playoffs is the league year can run longer. So we can go until mid/late December. The following year could then begin on Jan. 1
A final note: Nothing changes for this year. We are still doing the playoffs for both major and minor (top 4 in each) and uncompleted games can still be carried over. But the new scoring will be used for any game completed after Nov. 1
And of course with this point based system, the final tally won’t be known until all games are completed for that season. We will give in season snap shots like in previous years to see where things may fall.
We still may tweak a few things with the scoring, but you should get the idea.
All other rules are likely to stay pretty much as is. Any other thoughts/ideas?