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Player Of The Series
WarBwastardo:
Will the size of the field determine how many points are allocated for final table places?
Final table of Stud with only 30 runners shouldn"t receive the same points as final tabling the main event with 200, unless I"m on that final table obviously.
Can a maths boffin devise some sort of pro rata points system based on number of runners and perhaps bonus points for having nice eyes like mine?
Or to make things simple just double the points for the main event places?
20 pts for winning a side event
40 pts for winning the main event
Maybe bonus points for FTing more than one event?
Jon MW:
--- Quote from: WarBwastard on August 22, 2008, 11:50:11 AM ---
Will the size of the field determine how many points are allocated for final table places?
Final table of Stud with only 30 runners shouldn"t receive the same points as final tabling the main event with 200, unless I"m on that final table obviously.
Can a maths boffin devise some sort of pro rata points system based on number of runners and perhaps bonus points for having nice eyes like mine?
Or to make things simple just double the points for the main event places?
20 pts for winning a side event
40 pts for winning the main event
Maybe bonus points for FTing more than one event?
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In the absence of a HORSE event then a "Player of the Series" is going to be recognition of all round skill.
If there is a pro rata scoring system depending on however many enter, then the winner of the main event will win overall.
Keeping the points system simple and just for the final table will ensure that the person who wins "Player of the Series" is the best all round player - not just a good hold"em player.
Bonus points for more than one FT is good though.
HaworthBantam:
--- Quote from: Jon MW on August 22, 2008, 12:04:03 PM ---
Bonus points for more than one FT is good though.
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Jon, wouldn"t the "bonus points" be the points they gain being on that final table ?
Maybe I"m missing something (not for the first time) but if points are only going to final tablists then I don"t see the point of bonus points.
WarBwastardo:
If we end up with four completely different final tables, four different winners, then the main event winner should be the POTS.
But I also think although the main event winner ought to get more points than the winner of the side events because the field is so much larger, it shouldn"t be so much more that it gives him/her an advantage that makes the points allocations in the other events irrelevant. So bonus points for FTing in more than one event can go some way to neutralising that advantage if that makes sense?
For example the main event winner only plays that event and is awarded 40 pts.
Someone else plays all the events, finishes 5th in each of the three side events but no where in the main event and is awarded 36 points. Arguably that"s a better all round performance than just winning the main event so the bonus points for FTing in three events should be enough to raise his/her total to over 40 pts.
I think that makes sense. A bit.
Jon MW:
--- Quote from: HaworthBantam on August 22, 2008, 12:22:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jon MW on August 22, 2008, 12:04:03 PM ---
Bonus points for more than one FT is good though.
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Jon, wouldn"t the "bonus points" be the points they gain being on that final table ?
Maybe I"m missing something (not for the first time) but if points are only going to final tablists then I don"t see the point of bonus points.
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I did consider that.
But if, for example, you give 9 to 1 points for 1st to 9th places.
Then I think for somebody to get two 9th places is better than somebody just getting one 8th place.
If they got, say, 2 bonus points for reaching 2 final tables, then this redresses the balance a bit.
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