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

[Stephanie Traub]

Another thing to consider is maybe, such as in this case, if it comes down
to a tiebreaker (I had 13 pts and Tim had 11, 13 with the effective
points), the person using effective points would lose the tiebreaker and
would stay in the group. That would be more fair.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:28 PM Stephanie Traub <stephsharer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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