[FSPA] FSPA: MOM's Organic Pinball Results for 09/17/2018 (Meet #1)

[Max Baskin]

If your primary concern is WPPRs, I think you're right. But I think the
primary concern of the sorting mechanism is to ensure balanced skill
grouping.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 6:30 PM Stephanie Traub via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> Based on how i read the standings as they are submitted  and published to
> IFPA, final league ranking is based on group order.  So if, say, league
> ended today, Rob WC (as an example) would be above me, even though he only
> got 3 points yesterday, because he is in a higher group.  So that's why i'd
> consider it an advantage.  No?
>
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> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:15 PM Joe Schober via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Stephanie wrote...
>>
>> Where someone misses a whole week without any preplays, then I maybe can
>> understand it since it’s more of a clear effort to sandbag.
>>
>>
>> Is it?  I would generally assume that someone who misses a week without
>> preplays does so because of illness, stuck at work, family emergency, stuff
>> like that.  While we encourage everyone to record preplays for just such
>> occasions, some people don't.  And even if we didn't do the effective point
>> thing, IMHO it'd be an ill-advised sandbag to intentionally give up an
>> average of 10 league points to drop just one group.
>>
>>
>> Clearly that’s not what Tim was doing here. He is being rewarded for not
>> playing a game.
>>
>>
>> How is Tim being rewarded?  He received fewer league points than you did
>> -- please remember, effective points are only for calculating group
>> movement, they do NOT count toward overall standings!  And by being pushed
>> up a group next week, he will be facing (nominally) more difficult
>> opponents, which may make it harder for him to earn points in that group.
>> Conversely, you earned more league points than he did and will be facing
>> (nominally) easier opponents next week than if you'd been moved up a group.
>>
>>
>> Not trying to make a huge stink about it but it’s something maybe to
>> think about reconsidering some day....🤷🏻‍♀️
>>
>>
>> We think about this stuff All. The. Time.  :)  Always happy to discuss
>> and accept feedback -- on this or any topic! -- but honestly, for this
>> rule, we haven't heard or come up with an alternative that handles all the
>> edge cases and is demonstrably better than the current approach.
>>
>> --Joe
>>
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