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

[Joe Schober]

Stephanie 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?
> 

Not really correct.  Final league ranking submitted to IFPA/WPPR is based on league points within division -- so all A players stacked in order of league points earned, then all the B players stacked in order of league points earned, etc.  So if league ended today, it'd be a single division (because divisions aren't established until a minimum number of weeks elapse), and the WPPR results would be submitted exactly in the order shown in the "Overall Standings" table, with you way above Rob.

What you're probably thinking of: It is true that division assignments are based on your average group (more accurately, your average ladder position) across the middle 6 weeks of the season, so there is some small but non-zero chance that getting kicked up a group due to effective points could be just enough to nudge someone up a division.  Not saying that it *never* happens, but I suspect it's pretty unusual... and if margins are that close, it's probably just as easy to point to any number of games over the course of the season where a modest number of machine points one way or the other would have been enough to swing things.

--Joe

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