<div><div dir="auto">Now that you say that i bet it will happen to me and I’m totally blaming it on this one thing! 😂</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:21 PM Joe Schober via FSPA <<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Stephanie wrote...<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>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?</div><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div><br class="m_-2830288227375411120Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>--Joe</div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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