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Well said Joe. <br><br><br><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Friday, September 3, 2021, 3:14 PM, Joe P. Said via FSPA <fspa@fspazone.org> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0463378414"><div><div>Wei-Hwa, thats the ideal way to do it.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Also, people join league to play not to skip. The incentive is friends and social and competition, not to avoid being penalized. Drop-2 lowers stress which makes it more enjoyable but doesn’t remove any competition elements.</div><div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0463378414gmail_quote"><div class="yiv0463378414yqt0600703306" id="yiv0463378414yqtfd65412"><div class="yiv0463378414gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:31 PM Wei-Hwa Huang via FSPA <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv0463378414gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:47 PM frederick butts via FSPA <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0463378414gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv0463378414gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);"><div>I understand why FSPA uses groups, however I have played in leagues where the match ups were random. As in they were not set until everyone was there and we knew who was playing. <div>If making sure you keep the better players together for competition then keep groups but still make them random.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></blockquote><div>Over here in the Bay Area Pinball Association we don't create the groups until we know who has shown up, but they aren't random -- basically we sort everyone by how well they did last week and make groups based on that ordering.</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0463378414gmail_quote"><div> </div></div>-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr">Wei-Hwa Huang, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:onigame@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:onigame@gmail.com">onigame@gmail.com</a><br clear="none">-----------------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">"Where are all the time travellers?" -- generalizing the Fermi Paradox to four dimensions</div></div>

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