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Roscopiko:
Last night in the northern division Newcastle and Edinburgh were tied on points 16 v 16 and Edinburgh awarded the 3 points as they had 4 point scores v 2 for Newcastle although one of those Newcastle players won the game overall  >:(.

I know this is covered in the rules and so fair enough wp Edinburgh and they get the win.

My biggest gripe is just that the disparity of the team sizes in the Northern Division means there can only realistically be one of 3 winners and 3 teams are basically drawing dead. 

These are the team sizes:

Team        Players
Aberdeen   5
Belfast      24
Carlisle      3
Dublin       15
Edinburgh  30
Glasgow    36
Newcastle 17
Stockton   12
Sunderland 4

So not only do the big clubs have a massive advantage in the game by having most of the field, the additional rules also reward them for having more players vs smaller clubs (some dont even have 4 players to score points).

I realise this is the first time this has been run but perhaps some sort of incentive can be given to players from the smaller to teams to retain some interest. i.e. individual highest scorer awarded something or I feel like this is going to lose peoples interest pretty quickly.

Not sure if this is the case across all the divisions but as it stands the current format really doesn"t provide a level playing field in the Northern division.

Jon MW:
This is the reason most sports are split into divisions, and have cups for different levels. So that the smaller teams still have something to aim for.

Honeybadg:
... I like the idea of rewarding indiviudal players who do well in the league ... is their logistical scope for a "best of the rest" team for those teams that do not qualify for the tournament at the end.

I am a bit of a nomad at the moment ... so I choose to join Edinburgh ... my home town ... who now trade at a bit of an advantage through weight of numbers.

Numbers were quite a lot down last night as it was ... any thoughts as to why?

Louis

MAIR:
There are still 17 games left, and still time for captains to add players to their teams, be it through word of mouth in their area or recruiting players through apat who live locally.

Edinburgh had 14 players in the game last night out of a possible 30, not sure how many Newcastle had playing, but that was less than 50% of the team and we were fortunate to have 4 at FT.

Previous week we had 1 points scorer, it really does depend on the day the game is played and how well the team members do in that round.

I can see where you are coming from with regard to the different team sizes, but with 17 games left it is still all to play for and for new players to come on board.

Roscopiko:

--- Quote from: xxMAIRxx on March 02, 2009, 11:28:17 AM ---
There are still 17 games left, and still time for captains to add players to their teams, be it through word of mouth in their area or recruiting players through apat who live locally.

Edinburgh had 14 players in the game last night out of a possible 30, not sure how many Newcastle had playing, but that was less than 50% of the team and we were fortunate to have 4 at FT.

Previous week we had 1 points scorer, it really does depend on the day the game is played and how well the team members do in that round.

I can see where you are coming from with regard to the different team sizes, but with 17 games left it is still all to play for and for new players to come on board.

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Totally agree all still to play for and not trying to knock the general idea which I think is a very good one.  Just a shame for the whole thing that the difference in team sizes will effect everything so much imo.

I"m still out recruiting and will happily play the rest of the season whether we have a decent chance or not as the games stand alone fine anyway.  Just hope this idea can be tweaked a little to make it more competitive for some of the teams.

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