Now then, this post may sound like sour grapes, but it isn"t meant to, in the interest of fairness I am just suggesting that changes ought to be made for season 3.
When the last rankings were posted by John, I did what every body does and looks to find their name and see where I finished in the table. So I was pretty pleased to see that I had finished 9th in the North with two final table finishes, I then promptly forgot all about it!
Then the other day a post featured the rankings table again and I had another look at it, and noticed that Morlspin 2 and GiMac 1, both got to 5 final tables!!! Now I don"t know either Graeme or Gordon, but they are both obviously very accomplished players. My question is, where did they play their regionals? And how many players attend those regionals?
I would suspect (and again I reiterate I don"t want to sound a miserable git) that the numbers in these particular regionals are low, as to beat a large field to 5 final tables is nigh on amazing.
So my point is, in Manchester there are normally between 60 and 80 people at every event, to battle through this field is surely a bigger achievement than to win through a field of 15. There fore shouldn"t the points awarded be in direct correllation with the number of entrants? The same way that National places are awarded. I know some might say "But I can only get to ...... and they only get 15 entrants" the thing being in this case the more final tables at lower points would equate to lesser final table at larger events.
Surely this would result in a fairer represenation of everybodies achievements.
I must stress guys that I am not having a dig at anybody, I think all the work that the APAT team put in is terrific, all I am saying is that there must be a fairer way of points scoring.
What do the rest of you think?
