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

[Stephanie Traub]

Now that you say that i bet it will happen to me  and I’m totally blaming
it on this one thing! 😂

Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it!

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:21 PM Joe Schober via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> 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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