<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Something like this. Imagine you have 12 machines for league, noted A through L for simplicity.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Group 1 picks machine A</div><div>Group 2 picks machine B</div><div>...</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div> --- Dave<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:13 PM Kevin Stone via FSPA <<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">I think game picks are overrated. Every time I’ve picked a game, I end up playing horrible on it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joe Schober via FSPA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> FSPA main discussion list<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Joe Schober<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FSPA] FSPA: MOM's Organic Pinball Results for 09/29/2021 (Meet #2)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,50,71);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">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."</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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