[FSPA] Mustang Pinball League Spring 2025 - Call for Players!

[Edan Grossman]

Good evening Mustang pinball league players.

*Registration*

You can pre-register for the 2025 Spring season here
<https://forms.gle/NmDDT656mDZ32LUr9>.  Just fill out the form.  This helps
with preparing for the first week of league, but is not required.


*Changes for 2025*

The Spring and Fall seasons will continue to use the 10-week modified
ladder format just as we did last year.  The only change is we are going to
prioritize creating four-player groups over three-player groups.  This will
reduce the number of groups, but it increases the number of opponents you
play each week.


Here is the big change coming up this year...  The Summer season will use
the new Matchplay format as used by the Carpool League in Arlington.  It is
a shorter season format, only 8-weeks long, which is appropriate for the
Summer season.  The Carpool league adopted it last year and it was very
well received by their players.  I decided to give it a try at Mustang for
the Summer season and see how it goes.


Also, Terminator 3 has joined the lineup.  You can now play T2 and T3 in
the same location.


*Schedule*

Week 0 is January 21.  This is a meet and greet, and to get familiar with
the games.  (You may also complete preplays this week. Completely optional)

Week 1 is January 28.  (First official week of this season)

Start time on Week 1 is 7:30pm.  We ask players to try and arrive by 7:15pm
so we can properly account for all players.  We will likely get started
around 7:45pm.


Full calendar is available here <http://www.fspazone.org/mustang-sally/>.



*Dues*

$30 – normal dues

$0 – first time Mustang Sally players dues (operators pay the $30)

We start taking dues on week 1, not week 0.



*Summary*

All players will have the opportunity to compete for A division placement
by playing against random opponents for league points in the initial week
and then grouped together using the swiss method.  Subsequently, players
will be seeded into initial divisions, and our traditional "ladder"
movement will resume for the rest of the season.



*Details*

   1. First 4 weeks of league will comprise a random grouping for week 1
   followed by swiss groupings for week 2 through 4.  The swiss component will
   attempt to avoid players being grouped against significantly higher or
   lower skilled players.
   2. Week 5 will be grouped based on overall points from best 3 of the
   first 4 weeks of league (drop the lowest score).
   3. Weeks 5 through 10 will continue to use the ladder system, so winning
   moves a player up a group, and losing drops them down a group.
   4. Divisions will be determined at the end of week 9 using the average
   ladder position, like how divisions are determined now.



Any questions, feel free to reach out directly to me at edan at fspazone.org.



Thanks, and looking forward to this season of pinball at Mustang Sally.
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