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National Online League - Season 6 Formats
AceOnTheRiver:
--- Quote from: TightEnd on December 22, 2011, 14:05:15 PM ---
Given the options, which makes it more likely that you will participate all year and will ensure that the league is competitive for as long as possible?..that"s question 1
Questions 2...does belonging to a team with regional/local identity matter to you? Is it time to move on from that and form teams in different ways?
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1. I will participate in as many games as I can irrespective of the final decision
2. It"s not the regional aspect that matters to me, it"s the established group of Luton players who have become a community which matters to me (very specifically me, taking your question literally) but as per my earlier post I have no doubt my views would be different if I played for a smaller club. So for me re part two of the question, selfishly "no", selflessly "maybe".
AceOnTheRiver:
--- Quote from: scouse3465 on December 22, 2011, 13:50:12 PM ---
We got numbers cos we went out and recruited you just carried on with walsall ,birmingham with odd player from natural discovery. And also you got well established players in APAT all capable of scoring poins and also when required to play every week . We get newbies to APAT and a lot new to poker.
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I echo most of Scouse"s point from a Luton perspective. Recruitment has been part of the game and our skipper has been brilliant at it plus the fact that Rich Baker bought a lot of his mates in and our German friend Achim chose to join Luton and recruited some compatriots
"newbies to APAT and a lot new to Poker" - never really thought about that but it"s spot on.
West Mids had the quality and that shone through in the end, but wasn"t a team with loads of newbies pushing you at the end exactly what the APAT spirit should be about?
Des:
--- Quote from: TheSnapper on December 22, 2011, 14:22:40 PM ---
This proposed reshuffle will undoubtedly address the current inequity in the team sizes and bravo Apat for their considerable efforts. My fear is that the potential for the league to be a recruitment competition remains entact.
Now that may be beneficial for Apat and would certainly be a nice benefit to any potential sponsor but, I suspect that if a couple of diligent captains actively and successfully recruit a decent number of players we will ultimately find ourselves back in the same inequitable hole.
In that environment the Captain"s role may again become crucial and overly burdensome and it"s highly likely we will see a repeat of this seasons mass resignations.
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I"d be very happy for captains to lose this responsibility. Personally I"d rather have a lot of happier captains and players telling their friends that the League is competitive and good fun, than desperately trying to recruit for their teams. In option 2 the players would be allocated to teams as evenly as possible and I"d rather see a league that works first and foremost, rather than one that is growing, but unhappily.
Chipaccrual:
--- Quote from: PantsMan on December 22, 2011, 14:33:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on December 22, 2011, 14:14:11 PM ---If it helps, I"m pondering pushing APAT much more in Dorset, Devon, Cornwall now that I have moved a bit further West.
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"I"m pondering pushing APAT". Does that mean your back? Yay!
Right, where"s our advent calendar.
:)
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Pondering depends on a lot of things. ;D
No time for an advent calendar, but have you tried Chipaccrual"s Big Christmas End of Year Quiz ?
RicayBoy:
The regionalised teams scenario (Option 1) is the only viable alternative for me.
It means that those who have worked hard to get a good team ethos will not see that hard work destroyed and the smaller groups will still be together albeit as part of bigger teams. I imagine that APAT would be able to find out the average number of runners from each club last season, so should reasonably easily be able to ensure that the new teams are of similar numerical size. It would also make sense if APAT looked to run a live event in each "region" so everyone gets a "home" game.
A "team" comprised of 15 people randomly assembled from all over the country is not a team for me it"s just a group of individuals put together - It"s like something off the X-factor. Surely the individual should choose whether he wants to play for a certain team or not - not just allocated into Pot C at the whim of someone else - Not for me thank you.
I do think with only one division, there is some scope to alter the team/individual dynamic with regards any possible added value. For example the top three points scorers from the winning team get added value seats and the top three individuals (excluding the top three individuals from the winning team) also get added value seats. This means if a similar scoring system is used as last year, individuals will nearly always have a reason to turn up, even if their team is doing badly.
I also think we need to remember the key point of APAT to recruit more players would be better served by the regional format.
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