Season 6 Discussion

[galo5767]

I think that the scoring system has to be changed in order to keep a decent level of competition, I also like the idea of limiting team numbers.

I would like to see the league run along the same lines as the Team Champs-
Teams limited to 10,12, 15 etc players
Top 20,30,40 etc finishers score pts which will be added to your teams total.

[scouse3465]

Think scoring system has improved the league, ie teams with less players more of a chance of scoring points with a win.
Like the capped players idea but not capped players to play , i think as many players in team but only the top x amount of players to score points nominated before game starts. So players will fight to get in their own teams top x. also with the individual prizes should still encourage all playrs to play

[AMRN]

anything that caps the number of players that can enter/contribute, would be against the APAT ethos, and detrimental to the over-riding requirement to attract new players.

I prefer the idea of leaving volume wide open, but running with an individual programme inside the team programme - that ensures that players from even the smallest teams, or teams that have no chance of winning after first few rounds, still have a reason to play.

[galo5767]

I may be wrong here but isn"t the current scoring system a case of - If a player finishes in 1st place in a league match his team could still end up scoring 0 pts. If this is the case then imo this has to change, but as I say I may not be up to date with the current scoring system.

[Mikeyboy9361]

Tightys region team idea has a lot going for it, and I would have two seasons within one season if you know what I mean, of 8 games each, then people who lose interest due to lack of chance of winning will have another go in a few weeks time.
For me, I will play whenever I can anyway, because you can"t get as good a game anywhere for $10 ! So just play for the fun, and chill out guys!!

[scouse3465]

anything that caps the number of players that can enter/contribute, would be against the APAT ethos, and detrimental to the over-riding requirement to attract new players.

defo disagree with this , it would not stop players joining in etc cos the top players would change prob every week and would encourage competition within the team aswell as playing as a team.
It does not cap the players that can enter . and the contirbutions would be there after 1 result (they would be in top of their team) all this would stop is team with higher volume of players would not have an advantage.

[scouse3465]

I may be wrong here but isn"t the current scoring system a case of - If a player finishes in 1st place in a league match his team could still end up scoring 0 pts. If this is the case then imo this has to change, but as I say I may not be up to date with the current scoring system.

Yes a player can come first and score no points for team , but under current scoring system it is far less likely . Its 25 points for win then 22 20 etc . it used to be 9 , 8 ,7 ,6 etc

[SirPercival]

What is wrong with?

W Mids
E Mids
N West
N East
Ireland
S and S West
London and S East
East
Wales
Scotland

10 teams, one division. Gives each of those 10 teams a good crack at equal-ish numbers

Either 3 six week leagues or one big league

Team and Individual added value

I know you"d lose some team identity, but at least the smaller teams get put into groupings that have a chance....


(not an official view, nor a formal proposal, just throwing it out there)

This works for me, providing I can play for Scotland  

3 six week leagues is better than 1 big league IMO. As others have said it helps regenerate interest at the start of each league.

[SirPercival]

Again, just thinking out loud

3 six week leagues

At the end of Each Six week league

- the winning team wins a spot in the UK Team Championships that season
- The top player (irrespective of team) wins (UKIPT seat) (GUKPT seat) whatever added value is part of season 6
- The top x players win UK APAT National entries
- Top 25 finishing positions are scored for individuals in each of the six weeks, and all teams accrue points on a weekly basis

After three leagues three teams have qualified for the team championships

The top scoring team of those three in the team event then gets a play off where all those who have played events in their team are eligible, the winner within that team wins a (UKIPT seat)


Anyway, you get a measure of what can be done here to keep things competitive, address imbalances etc etc

Des and I need to discuss, clearly

A season 6 schedule is drafted, meetings are taking place imminently and Online national league will be part of those discussions

This looks great.

The playoff idea could be a bit unfair however if one player has played all the events and done well has an equal chance as the player who played once and didn"t score. Maybe different staring stacks (if software allows). or top point scorer in the team wins the seat and winnings are split in proportion to points.  

[RioRodent]

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[BOINGBLITZ]

Scouse...dont mention "Champion Of Champions"...apparantly, it isn"t needed.

[MintTrav]

Leader Board- I think more emphasis is needed on the overall leader board (online and live). It would be good to see it on the front page showing who is top, by how many points, etc etc. The UKIPT do this very well with the leader board pride of place on their front page.

I agree - and please keep it up to date. We all know that there is a lot of work involved in organising and running the tournaments, a substantial amount of which is never seen, so I can never understand why the simplest five-minute job of updating the leaderboard to finish off the event usually gets left undone for weeks. Why not just do it on the day? And saying you don"t know who has finished where in online games is incredible - can"t someone be delegated to watch the game and record the result?

[TightEnd]

that"s a bit harsh

For the live events the ranking positions are sent to the compiler the day after the event are are almost always updated in the rankings on the same week

There was a dislocation with the DTD WCOAP Online as it coincided to the day with Leigh's departure and the need to record the results fell through the cracks. Once we then obtained the results from DTD we had to work out who was represented by which DTD alias, a process that is ongoing.

Not exactly representative of systematic laxness in updating the rankings....

[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 What do you think East Midlanders?

I hope i havent created a monster here lol

[Des]

Scouse...dont mention "Champion Of Champions"...apparantly, it isn"t needed.

An annual CoC; where scheduled at the start of a season, perhaps has relevance. One based on the last five years doesn"t. If you want to find the most successful player during that time, then I would look at APAT cashes on the Hendon Mob database.