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National Online League - Season 6 Formats
PantsMan:
--- Quote from: Des on December 22, 2011, 14:36:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: PantsMan on December 22, 2011, 14:30:41 PM ---
Definitely stick with regions for me.
Don"t understand the need to start with a "level playing field". Why? We don"t get to the end of the football premiership each season and start reforming all the teams so that next season it"s all lovely and nice and fair for everyone. Some teams are better than others, that"s just the way it is and those are the teams to beat.
Walsall were the team to beat, now it"s West Mids. The main reason for this is as Scouse said "you got well established players in APAT all capable of scoring poins and also when required to play every week ." The fact is, those players come from the West Midlands. Therefore West Mids has the strongest team, it"s not rocket science. If it were just down to numbers then Luton would have stormed it. It"s not, it"s about the team with the best players. Which is as it should be.
I first discovered APAT through joining the Walsall team then through that joining the BCPC and moving on to playing in the live tourneys. Through that i"ve met a lot of friends who are in my team, others in the BCPC and even more in APAT. None of that would have happened if i"d simply been allocated to some team of randoms who could be from anywhere in the country. I"d certainly lose interest if it went down that route and I suddenly found myself in team Random 7.
Oh and keep the scoring system, it"s spot on.
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I think that it"s easier to state that Andy, if you"re in the best team in the League. :)
Ultimately APAT will be guided by the players as to which format to go with in Season 6; but we do have a responsibility to ensure the format works for as many players as possible.
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Maybe it is but if I were in one of the other teams i"d be doing my damndest to try and beat the teams at the top. And i"d be trying to recruit better players so we could do just that. It"s been close the last 2 seasons at the top and although we"ve won it could very easily have gone otherwise.
I understand the need to make it work for as many as possible, i just don"t feel that teams of randoms is the way forward.
PantsMan:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on December 22, 2011, 14:53:31 PM ---
--- 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 ?
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Tried it, failed miserably! Will certainly give it a go at some point though.
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on December 22, 2011, 14:53:31 PM ---
Pondering depends on a lot of things. ;D
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No it doesnt, stop mincing about and get back involved please and thanks :p :D :D :D
mporter123:
--- Quote from: RicayBoy on December 22, 2011, 14:56:44 PM ---
The regionalised teams scenario (Option 1) is the only viable alternative for me.
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.
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To be fair, Little Mix and One Direction were put together. Shows what a team of individuals can become...
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: Des on December 22, 2011, 14:31:15 PM ---
I don"t think that poker is such a skill fest that the odd player who may be a "7" in knowledge and ability terms, is likely to get far greater results over a 10 match season than a player who is a "3" for example. I think it is right to separate them as best we can with the understanding that anomoly placements will happen.
So, as far as new players are concerned, there will be an element of "luck of the draw". But they would be allocated to the next team in the rotation, who may have had a player less than some of their competitors to that point.
Ultimately, in the seeded/draft scenario we are unlikely to have super teams and that is the primary objective of that approach.
In addition, reducing the number of overall teams concerns me a bit; not to mention how new players might perceive a league that contains such apparently disparate teams as Ireland and West Midlands for example.
My concern is as Steve and Waz mentioned earlier, what happens if teams lose that local feel? I think their two teams and one or two others contained players with a lot of passion for the game, but very few of the other League teams did. Most of our community interaction occurs at the live events, so players know each other across quite a wide geographical spread. I"m tempted to think that passionate players would be equally passionate no matter which team they play for; particularly if the team they represent has a shot at winning points on each and every matchday.
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agree with all of this. well put Des.
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