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Daniel Cotter here, miss you guys. I have been running a couple seasons of a social distance league at the Richmond Pinball Collective that was basically a preplay league. You had the set week to come in while the collective was open and play a set bank of
games (solo if you wanted to avoid human contract) and submit your scores, but no actual preplays, if you missed a week you forfeited. My intent was not to remove anyone based on forfeits and everyone would make the finals, so forfei<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ts
equaled less points and lower seeding for finals. The aim was just fun and to have some reason to play each week during the pandemic. The first season I did 3 player(or default) groups and didn't like that those forfeits caused to many two player match ups
as I felt it skewed the points a bit if it happened to frequently. The second season I went for 4 player groups and this greatly cut down on 2 player match ups and I feel was a good offset for not dealing with preplays. I know this summer season was a kind
of fun test the waters so I wanted to share my experience with something similar.</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> FSPA <fspa-bounces@fspazone.org> on behalf of steve via FSPA <fspa@fspazone.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 30, 2021 3:01 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FSPA] Preplays are better</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Option 1: Prioritize 4 player grouping to minimize risk of 1 player groups. Consequence, everyone plays in 4 player groups, in preparing to avoid the potential of someone not being there.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">(this was actually my pre-season recommendation - but the hate for 4 player groups was too strong)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Option 2: Stick to the 'default' grouping which prefers 3 player groups, and face risks of 2 and 1 player groups more frequently. Rules account for all the scenarios, so you can just 'play on' w/o extra intervention. Consequence... you have
2 and 1 player scoring more frequently.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">As Matt mentioned, we have discussed and are sticking with #2 with the modification we will have the single player play with the group below them if there is space (or above) so they can play in a group - but we will still score them as their
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<div dir="ltr">The other options are far more disruptive change and not for something mid-season. You either change the ladder and movement system, and in turn, the handicapping model used for the whole league, or you use ghost scores of some format.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Personally I think 4 player groups are far less disruptive and provide 'cheap' defense to the problem.. but it seems everyone hates every scoring format but 3 player groups :D</div>
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<div dir="ltr">-Steve</div>
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<div>On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 08:58:27 PM EDT, Kevin Stone via FSPA <fspa@fspazone.org> wrote:
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<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I thought dropping 2 scores would be better than preplays, but it is absolutely not. We would have had two 1 actual player groups tonight in first and last group, but adjusted groups.
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<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2 player groups SUCK. You can crush a game and still get 1 point for 2nd place. </div>
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<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you can figure this shit out, I'm impressed. Edan and I got it re-organized but it was a pain. </div>
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