[FSPA] FSPA: MOM's Organic Pinball Results for 09/29/2021 (Meet #2)

[Dave Hubbard]

They are definitely overrated.  It's one game out of 40 that you play in a
season.  It's insignificant unless your league officer(s) use a progression
for determining the other games in your group that involve everyone else's
game picks, in which case people with later game picks can, theoretically,
pick games in other groups as well.

Something like this.  Imagine you have 12 machines for league, noted A
through L for simplicity.

Group 1 picks machine A
Group 2 picks machine B
...
Group 8 is last to pick, and 7 machines have already been chosen.  This
group's pick will be game H, leaving I/J/K/L to be assigned randomly to the
progression.

Every group in groups 1-7 that includes slot H is effectively chosen by
group 8's game picker, and you can trace this back up the groups as well
(for example, there's probably a few groups that include G, chosen by group
7).

So basically, game picks are not just your pick unless your SLO is filling
out the other 3 games randomly.  You likely won't know who picked what, but
you will know what games were picked and therefore which games are going to
show up in other people's groups.  If you know the progression (and your
SLO uses the same one every week) then with a little effort you can know
which other groups are going to get the game you pick for your group, and
that might be advantageous.

        --- Dave



On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:13 PM Kevin Stone via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> I think game picks are overrated.  Every time I’ve picked a game, I end up
> playing horrible on it.
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> *From:* FSPA [mailto:fspa-bounces+pinball=kevinsplanet.com at fspazone.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Joe Schober via FSPA
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:47 PM
> *To:* FSPA main discussion list
> *Cc:* Joe Schober
> *Subject:* Re: [FSPA] FSPA: MOM's Organic Pinball Results for 09/29/2021
> (Meet #2)
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> Steph wrote...
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> I don’t understand the ladder movement. I won my group but stayed in the
> same group, I suppose this has to do with rearranging the groups into three
> person groups after this meet but now who gets game picks?
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> "At each meet, the winner of each group who has moved up (except the
> winner of group 1) will choose their new group’s first machine to be
> played. In the lowest group, the lowest-ranked player will choose the first
> machine to be played. If there is a conflict due to dropouts and
> regrouping, then the lowest-ranked player in each affected group will have
> the machine pick."
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