Some points relating to the online league / number of players in a team debate:
I acknowledge that the current system needs looking at but the proposal of dividing points by the number of players in a team is flawed in my opinion for the following reasons.
1. Surely part of the role of the captain and team members is to encourage more and more players to join the team, which in many cases acts as their intro to APAT and in some cases "real" poker, so it"s all good. Under this proposal inexperienced players could make numbers a disadvantage.
2. The league is FUN and should remain as such whilst also being competitive with good added value. If I bust out very early three weeks on the bounce I will have directly negated good performances - I will feel like a bad team member. People might start to criticise poorly performing players.
3. If you have 50 runners, then 24th could be viewed as a positive result as it"s better than the average. This could encourage insanely nitty play and games would be ending sometime on Tuesday.
I acknowledge that I am saying all of this from the point of view of playing for one of the most populated teams, but that links back to point one. At Luton we have been actively recruiting and some of the new players in turn bought their friends along - our fun and friendly live game recently has also done us no harm either - and IMO
THAT"s what APAT is about
Finally, it"s not all about quantity! We"ve got some quality too you know