League General Discussion Thread

akreider2

@gamerman01 I’d be up for playing anyone at 100:1 odds (against me of course) for $100 if I lose, $10k if I win – escrowed. I might even do 50:1.

gamerman01

Yeah, but the master isn’t going to play you if he’d only win $100 from you if he could play someone else at 10:1 and win $1,000 for the same amount of effort.

gamerman01

Guys, if you’re not an E, a Master is absolutely taking candy from a baby. Shoot, Adam eats E’s for lunch.

gamerman01

On top of that, the 8 seed in the tournament always gets destroyed by the 1 seed, if I err not. The 8 seed is normally an E.

Absolutely no disrespect meant to anyone, I do like entertaining your points of view and ideas, and often they are quite entertaining. But from here at the top of the mountain, I also have the absolute prerogative to reject any and all ideas. But I will continue respecting you all unless you are toxic or mean, and we haven’t had any of those on the site for years, to my knowledge lol

oysteilo

@gamerman01 @surfer back to surfer’s suggestion. It’s not that bad if you allowed one game pr top tier player against a low/unranked player. I think it can be a neet addition to the ranking and s fair comptomize to silent the discussion.

@gamerman01 and if you are worried it will mess up your bookkeeping just have this game reporter at deg 31. Or make note at the name. It’s fairly easy to keep track of, isnt it?

gamerman01

OK, Oysteilo is a heavyweight. Yes, I thought about making a little notation, and no, it wouldn’t be a big problem, you’re right.

If for example, you Oysteilo, wanted to play a newcomer who was tier 3, I could count the game and not count the 4 points and make a notation. Until that player reaches 3 games and is probably no longer tier 3 any more. But then we need to define some more things, and I fear this opens a can of worms.

oysteilo

@oysteilo i hate that autocorrect when i try to write English with Norwegian keyboard

gamerman01

Now what would be the limits - they would all have to be defined. We’re not going there. I have a better idea. As you all could have all along, write me about your situation (I’m a high tier E trying to make the playoffs and this new guy wants to play me in league but I don’t want 4 points dropping my score, what can we do?) and I could make an exception for you. AD isn’t the only guy who gets exceptions. Then it wouldn’t even have to be limited to 1 game a year, a tier E or M could do several if he wants them to count toward 8 league games but not lower his score.

Now even with this exception, we’ll see how many tier E’s and M’s actually spend their time with newcomers.

jim010

Are the top leaguers wanting to rack up wins against new or rusty (like me) players?

Considering that there is no money on the table in a league game, seems like far too much is being read into the ranking system.

gamerman01

If I make a new rule like 1 game per year that you don’t get a score for, it’s one more thing for all league participants to learn about, and I think it could open the floodgates. Let me know when this hypothetical situation of a newcomer getting turned down for games happens. I never hear about it.

gamerman01

@jim010 said in League General Discussion Thread:

Are the top leaguers wanting to rack up wins against new or rusty (like me) players?

Considering that there is no money on the table in a league game, seems like far too much is being read into the ranking system.

No, top players want to have fun playing games, and can easily smash a tier 1 or E, they don’t need a 2 or 3 to get their jollies.

Thank you, well said. We are very analytical people, so we analyze everything to death.

gamerman01

Somebody help me remember - who was the guy AndrewAAGamer played that he said would normally be like a tier E but might never play 3 games? I could take a look at that.
Or he knew of someone else who played a guy who should be a tier E or something?

jim010

Reading a text can come across not in a way that was intended. I am not trying to sound condescending or the like. But with that being said, the league is all about bragging rights and nothing else, no? Otherwise everybody would be playing in the open games section for fun. I lost 3 straight in the league, and I’m out now. Want to play for fun and fine tune my tactics without the pressure of a humiliation for everyone to see in the rankings.

gamerman01

LOL close. Yes, if you don’t want to be humiliated with your sucky record up in lights, you should stay away from the league lol

The league is about everyone seeing your record, so yeah

AndrewAAGamer

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

Somebody help me remember - who was the guy AndrewAAGamer played that he said would normally be like a tier E but might never play 3 games? I could take a look at that.

Majikforce

gamerman01

For a little extra, Jim, I could literally make your name flash in the spreadsheet until the end of time…

akreider2

@jim010 You might want to study some games by the top players. Triple A is amazing that way as you can review an entire game move by move using the history function and the “next” button.

gamerman01

Thanks Andrew, majikforce is a high tier 1 right now, so no problem, right? Or are you saying majikforce played somebody who was under-rated…?

gamerman01

@akreider2 said in League General Discussion Thread:

@jim010 You might want to study some games by the top players. Triple A is amazing that way as you can review an entire game move by move using the history function and the “next” button.

THANK YOU akreider - exactly. Easy to review anyone else’s games.

oysteilo

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

Now what would be the limits - they would all have to be defined. We’re not going there. I have a better idea. As you all could have all along, write me about your situation (I’m a high tier E trying to make the playoffs and this new guy wants to play me in league but I don’t want 4 points dropping my score, what can we do?) and I could make an exception for you. AD isn’t the only guy who gets exceptions. Then it wouldn’t even have to be limited to 1 game a year, a tier E or M could do several if he wants them to count toward 8 league games but not lower his score.

Now even with this exception, we’ll see how many tier E’s and M’s actually spend their time with newcomers.

Okey, if that is the way you want to handle it i support it 100% I also question that all M’s suddenly are going to start playing rockies… But we will see! Also it should end this discussion!

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