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Season 6 Discussion
AMRN:
There are 11 teams in Div 1 - therefore each team makes up 9% of the league table. In the first three weeks of this current league season, West Mids had 23/216 entrants = 11% of the field, 16/161 = 10%, and 13/148 = 9%. Therefore, I make the point that we were not overly heavy or large - we had the average team size. There were other teams larger than WM.
Over time, player volume has dropped away (including WM), and WM player ratio has increased to between 15%-18%. This doesn"t mean the league has failed - it just means people are dropping out.
Consider that APAT National events do not sell out with the gusto that they did in S2/S3.... that means people have dropped out of the mix.... by the same token, does that mean the APAT Nationals are therefore failing? Of course not.
With respect to the league, if all 216 players who played the first round had stuck around, WM would still only be playing with the average player ratio, and the league table might look different. The fact is that people lost interest after round 1 - that doesn"t necessarily mean the league concept is bad or wrong.... just that people lost interest.
imo you will never be able to sustain the interest of so many people over a 20 week cycle. Some will get bored, some will just forget about it, some will lose interest when they aren"t top of the league, etc etc etc. Drastically shorten the lifecycle of the league with a view to keeping it more "current", and we will have far more chance of sustaining interest throughout. Failing that, scrap it, and add the value seats to more Online Nationals.
Tiger-flash:
imho it dosent matter how many players you have in a team, Solent have done very well with less than 10 players and are sitting pretty with West Midlands. My team Notts are struggling and its hard to recruit players. As i live in Derby, Derby people dont want to play for Notts along with, surrounding citys like Leicester, Lincoln, Mansfield or Chesterfield etc, our captain Jack Prime is from Leicester and probably has the same problem getting players. I personally think that next season Notts should change to East Midlands poker club and then watch the numbers turn up lol, West midlands have done it so why cant us :D What do you think East Midlanders?
Marty719:
Seeing as the league needs an overhaul, and bunch of 5"s was so successful...why not make Sunday nights more individual competition. Different format every sunday over a 5-6 week period, and a leaderboard with overall points. Prizes for top of the leaderboard at the end of each cycle. I think this would be a great way of getting interest back in, and due to changing formats, is likely to retain interest throughout the weeks. $11 would also still make for a decent prize-pool, and the competitive element would still be there.
AMRN:
--- Quote from: Marty719 on October 04, 2011, 09:40:09 AM ---
Seeing as the league needs an overhaul, and bunch of 5"s was so successful...why not make Sunday nights more individual competition. Different format every sunday over a 5-6 week period, and a leaderboard with overall points. Prizes for top of the leaderboard at the end of each cycle. I think this would be a great way of getting interest back in, and due to changing formats, is likely to retain interest throughout the weeks. $11 would also still make for a decent prize-pool, and the competitive element would still be there.
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Absolutely this ^^
scouse3465:
Think team events still the way forward. To be honest the league would have been really competitive this year if birmingham / Walsall had stayed separate. The only way to balance it out again next year is to either split west mids back up or have other teams merge.
Only other option would be to change fromat , i have said before about having nominated players ( say the top 7/8 from each team only allowed to score team points) all players allowed to play though and if do well get promoted into point scoring players , therefore this will encourage to play to keep in the team and if not in team to play and get into team, ie 1 win should put you in .
just a bit more admin for team captains to post nominated scoring players before tourney starts.
This would also eliminate a lot of soft play between team mates because you would also be playin against team mates in your own standings to keep in the team !
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