A Leaderboard decision!

[AleoMagus]

Ok...

Me, Doc, Tim and some others have all privately been discussing a new and better system and a decision has been made

Past results, unfortunately (or fortunately perhaps? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]) will not be counted. This will all start fresh with our next two sngs and will continue after that. (Sorry Byron. For what it's worth we could all guess who was leading the European standings anyways)

In this way you all have fair warning that it will be happening and you all will be familiar with the methodology that will be used

So, here it is:

a) there will be two leaderboards. These will accommodate our two playing times and will be refered to as our European and North American leaderboards. This by no means suggests that europeans should only play that time or vice versa. Play one or both or whatever - no matter where you are. All I'm saying is that the points will be calculated separately. In this way you will be able to play only one time each week and remain very competitive.

b) All names on the leaderboard will be Pokerstars names

c) the leaderboard will start next week but will continue to accumulate until ten weeks have passed. After this, only the most recent ten weeks will be used in the points calculations.

d)Players who have only played one tournament and who did not make the money will have leaderboard points calculated, but will not be listed in the standings until they have played a second tournament. This will prevent non-2+2 players from making our leaderboard a mile long.
(I may make an exception to this on our first week so that we have a leaderbaod with more than 4 people on it to start. It wont really matter either way after a while.)

Points will be calculated for each tournament as follows:

2 pts for playing
+2 pt for each player you finish higher than (0.36 pts for each % of the field you finish higher than)
+3 pts for making the final table
+5 pts for 4th place
+10 pts for 3rd
+15 pts for 2nd
+25 pts for 1st
+1 pt for every $2 in prize money

This looks like:

1st 100pts
2nd 79pts
3rd 63pts
4th 47pts
5th 31pts
6th 29pts
7th 27pts
8th 25pts
9th 23pts
10th 18pts
11th 16pts
12th 14pts
13th 12pts
14th 10pts
15th 8pts
16th 6pts
17th 4pts
18th 2pts

if interest swells and we start playing more than one game, the 2nd game may be counted provided that at least half the field is 2+2. Additionally, only the highest result from a single player will be used if one player plays in both.

The leaderboard will also include:

Average finish (to honour those who can't play many but who do well)
Prize $$$ totals

I may also include long term stats like longest winning streaks etc..., but I will not do this on a regular basis.

My intention is to post the leaderboards here each week, but I will also try to post them on a separate web address.

This leaderboard is in the spirit of competition, but it is meant to enhance the social nature of our game more than anything. In this sense, it will make our 2+2 sngs kind of a 'league' thing. This points system reflects this somewhat by rewarding players not just for making the money all the time, but also for just showing up and making the occasional final table.

Sorry for getting all your hopes up about the past 5 weeks of results. It all starts next week so get your game faces on!

Oh, the possibility has been discussed about eventually matching up our European vs N.American leaders. Perhaps this is something we could implement down the road.

This is the decision, and it's gonna happen this time - I promise (probably [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])

Any thoughts?

Regards all,
Brad S