Changing name from "League" to "Gamerman's World Rankings"?

[arathorn]

@Gamerman01:

Fun stuff, I’m glad you made the topic, Arathorn

Lots of thoughts, of course, but for now I’ll just put this one out.

We ARE badly in need of a good name for these playoffs.  I’ve been stumbling around calling them the “official league playoffs” or “the playoff that will name the league champion” to distinguish it from the “additional playoff(s)”.

Will cast my vote now!  First, the tough decision of whether to look at the current results BEFORE or AFTER I vote!  :-P

I’m happy to help!

I only want the name to change from “league” back to something with Rankings, like your system was called before :)

[arathorn]

@alexgreat:

I think there is not much wrong with how the League is structured.

This is not about how the League is structured. this is about the name.

And then my two cents on how to organise and accommodate for the top 8 playoffs (and its name) :)

[JDOW]

@arathorn:

The point is that historically, every league has had a set amount of players, that all have to play a set amount of games.
That is the same for all the leagues around the world. That is what a sports league is.
Playoff or not makes no difference in that respect.

We’re closer in our organisational form to how Tennis (especially), Chess and Golf are organised.
Therefore I suggest we move our points, scoring, ranking etc. all into one lump in the same fashion as these other sports. (And yes, I just named Chess a sport, intentionally ;) )

Ok, got it. I agree to this.

[Soulblighter]

In short we should name it: ICFPWDTSRLHOABG

“International competition for people who desire to spend ridiculously long hours on a board game”

[Soulblighter]

“Gamerman’s International Axis&Allies Rankings” sounds better tho. World rankings sounds cheesy. I mean sure it could be done. Think about the boxing examples, but karate is a sport that has similar issues. The thing is we have to keep in mind that there are more rankings and more places where you can play axis and allies online. This just happens to be one of them. We are currently using Gamerman’s Ranking system. So I think we should name it after him as we are using his ranking system. If we would change the system, then we change the name, but everything else can stay the way it is.

If the majority prefers “Gamerman’s World Axis&Allies Rankings” above Gamerman’s International Rankings then thats fine as well, but I am not voting for the world rankings part myself. Whatever the name is going to be, it needs to include Axis&allies at the very least, because that is what we play.

[boldfresh]

good stuff.

[gamerman01]

@Soulblighter:

In short we should name it: ICFPWDTSRLHOABG

“International competition for people who desire to spend ridiculously long hours on a board game”

This is a great post

[Shin-Ji]

Gamerman’s Intergalactic Ranking Roundup!

[MagicQ]

Current system works fine. The only flaw is that last year’s playoffs overlaps next year’s regular season. Your comparison with tennis world rank system inspired me. I think we can come up with better rank system made up of “current league rank” and “tournament result” such as Garganta’s tournament and possibly other recognized tournament. The rank point you get depends on the scale of the tournament. This way we can encourage more organized tournament from all over the world so that the league will be more like a so called world league that you suggest. Hopefully we will have specific tournaments such as Garganta’s 2 vs 2 with unique oob rules or other dice tech or LL NT or LL tech or even triplea lobby live tournament.

The only problem is we must manager to finish the tournament in 1 year to make it an one year’s rank, which means we need more careful plan and group of responsible regular players who want to finish a game ASAP.

Only my pipe dream probably.  :roll:

[Zhukov44]

Agree with the thread starter.  A “league” implies a bit more structure and typically implies that people are required to play each other pre-playoffs.  I would not object to a league system in addition to Gamerman’s ranking system.  Given the current volume of games, I believe we have sufficient people to get a ladder league going if somebody is interested in organizing it.  We can also think about hosting some tournaments.

Gamerman’s Global PBF Rankings or International A&A Global Rankings both sound good.