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Good news - rankings updated by version for 2021!
Overall combined ranking sheet still to be set up later - it’s not needed yet anyway.
The changes will be formalized in the league rules at some point. Until then, if you have any questions just PM me or ask on the boards and someone who’s read my posts may be able to help you.

I will use the same method as before, for establishing early rankings. That is, if you didn’t finish 3 games last year, I will find your most recent “firm” ranking (year where you had 3 games completed) and subtract 1 tier. If you completed 3 games last year, your tier carries over to this year. If you’ve never completed 3 games in a year or you were tier 3 last year, you start this year tier 3.

When you reach 3 games in a version in 2021, your tier will change to reflect your 2021 PPG rather than your previous year’s tier. There are a few exceptions, where I make a judgment call that does not follow these rules, in the spirit of making the rankings more accurate (generally when a player is clearly better than tier 3 but according to these rules because of few games played would otherwise be assigned tier 3)

It’s good you asked, Amon, others are probably wondering too.

There’s one league.
Four standings sheets - OOB 2nd edition, BM, P2V, and overall/composite.

8 games needed in BM to play in BM playoff
?? games needed in OOB to play in OOB playoff
?? games needed in P2V to play in P2V playoff

Number of games required for OOB and P2V will be determined around mid-year (like July) because then we will all know how much activity/interest there is in each of those. That leaves plenty of time for players to get the # of games they need to qualify if they want to play in those playoffs (about half a year)

Composite/overall standings is for everyone’s information, to help you size up your opponents and see where you stand overall. Standings within each version of 1940 A&A govern playoffs by version. Does that answer all questions? If not, please ask follow-up questions. I will update the official league rules someday, but this is the most hectic time of year for me.

Hey everybody,

Life events took me away from the computer and internet - I just got back home this afternoon.

I am posting here to let you all know that I will be updating the league standings later this weekend -

happy gaming!
gamerman01

I haven’t heard from anyone who I think could do it, no. But I’m gradually getting better and have been able to keep up with duties so far.

The position is always open though - I’m willing to hand it off to someone who has enough experience and good reputation

I will start recording 2022 results in new spreadsheets one of these days - so far I have been busy keeping up with the signups and tournament designs. Thank you for understanding and waiting.

Congratulations to Nikola for winning the bracket!

Tin can wins the bracket! Congratulations!

You are immortalized in the league history annals.

League -> League history
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/8161/league-history

A&A is just such a freaking awesome game for these reasons. Plus it has army men, tanks, ships and planes. What’s not to like. You just can’t stun an adversary the same way as in A&A. The right combination of cunning, oversight, and pure luck can just… destroy.

Or as Karl7 always used to say - KILL KILL KILL!!!

@jkeller said in Post League Game Results Here:

I will go ahead and play out the game for the integrity of the playoffs if that’s okay. I don’t think forfeiting mid-match or mid-series during a playoff would be an acceptable action in any other competitive field so I apologize for even mentioning it and I also apologize for the delay though as mentioned it was not as long as yours so I think the right thing would be for us just to finish the game. Without any bumps or messages I guess I was just focused on other things and lost track of the time. But I will go ahead and continue now if you agree.

OK, I have now looked at the game thread and this is the situation.
Started on June 20 and went at a torrid pace the whole way, through 7/26, when it was G16. That is nearly a whole round every 2 days.
Then 9/9 trulpen made his R16, though he had waited 45 days. jkeller responded with J16 on 9/25, 16 days later.

I found they have a BM4 game going also, where jkeller did J7 on July 27. Trulpen made UK7 on 9/2.

Looks like jkeller could have called both games, unless ther e was some PM understanding between the two. Why can trulpen call the game after 16 days after keller didn’t call it after 36 days? I’m just asking.

keller said above in my quote that he’d like to play out the game. I think given what I’ve seen here, keller should be able to continue the game if he wants, or forfeit if he wants.

So I suppose we don’t know how many great ones we’ve lost to life, and really nothing to do with how great G40 A&A or this website are.

And who knows who will come back - blighter is playing here again, and I played only 2 games between Nov 15, 2017 and Nov 11, 2021, so 2 games in 4 years.

Guess who I played (beat in 4 rounds <cough>) on November 15, 2017?

Of course, I was hanging around enjoying the standings and running things and answering questions and breaking up fights, but still. People can leave and come back years later!

moderator call - farmboy will be E for OOB although no recent XP with OOB

First call for playoff signups

If you want to play in the playoff(s) STARTING SOON AFTER 12/31/22 and if you have completed 6 games of balanced mod, 3 games of PTV, and/or 3 games of OOB G40 private message me (preferably) or post to league discussion thread. Then you are signed up and will be in the playoffs. There will be a signup sheet in the rankings spreadsheet where you can confirm you are signed up, and you can see who else has signed up.

If you want to be sure you’re in, post or private message your signup before 1/1/23.

Each game version does have more than 8 qualifying players for the playoffs, and if we have at least 8 signups for each game version, there will be a full bracket of 8 for the championship from the 2022 regular season. If you don’t end up in the top 8, you will still get gripping playoff action!

Players may enter the playoff for more than one version if qualifying with minimum games in each (you have a ranking number in the first column, or 2nd column for BM which requires 6 games done). The overall ranking sheet is so that players playing different versions may be compared (and also to count total number of games for purposes of determining how many games you can play against another individual) and so have no bearing on the playoffs. Your seeding and qualifications are determined from your results IN THAT version’s ranking sheet.

Playoffs are primarily for the enjoyment of players and are single elimination - you lose, you go home and cry. Oh wait, you’re already home. You just cry. Of course it was the dice’s fault.

If you have any questions about how the playoffs work, just send me a PM.

First call for playoff signups

If you want to play in the playoff(s) STARTING SOON AFTER 12/31/22 and if you have completed 6 games of balanced mod, 3 games of PTV, and/or 3 games of OOB G40 private message me (preferably) or post to league discussion thread. Then you are signed up and will be in the playoffs. There will be a signup sheet in the rankings spreadsheet where you can confirm you are signed up, and you can see who else has signed up.

If you want to be sure you’re in, post or private message your signup before 1/1/23.

Each game version does have more than 8 qualifying players for the playoffs, and if we have at least 8 signups for each game version, there will be a full bracket of 8 for the championship from the 2022 regular season. If you don’t end up in the top 8, you will still get gripping playoff action!

Players may enter the playoff for more than one version if qualifying with minimum games in each (you have a ranking number in the first column, or 2nd column for BM which requires 6 games done). The overall ranking sheet is so that players playing different versions may be compared (and also to count total number of games for purposes of determining how many games you can play against another individual) and so have no bearing on the playoffs. Your seeding and qualifications are determined from your results IN THAT version’s ranking sheet.

Playoffs are primarily for the enjoyment of players and are single elimination - you lose, you go home and cry. Oh wait, you’re already home. You just cry. Of course it was the dice’s fault.

If you have any questions about how the playoffs work, just send me a PM.

Crockett is in!!
That’s only 1 bye, for the #1 seed if we don’t get another.
Not bad at all.
With 7 players from almost the top to the bottom, the #1 might as well get a bye anyway, and the #2 can have the #7.

Great!

@gamerman01 said in Post League Game Results Here:

@me1945 And are you in??

Oh! There’s the private message. Me is in! New Year’s Eve drama!!

I just play the little A&A&Zombies game with my son and quickly realize that without the calculator I am quite vulnerable.

@crockett36 said in Post League Game Results Here:

I wonder what the win ratio is: Axis:Allies–even with bids, even with different versions.

I used to track it. Looks like it was through 2018. Sometimes I tracked results by tier. You have to analyze closely to tell if it’s balanced, because of difference in player ability.

These results are all in the rankings spreadsheets.

Balanced mod 2015
Allies went 210-251
2016
Allies were 145-116
2017
Allies 155-138
2018
Allies 139-171

Total 4 years, balanced mod
Allies 649-676

Balanced mod seems to be quite balanced

Consider it clarified permanently!

If UK puts IC in Egypt, they are not adding 2 subs desperately needed in round 1, and if UK builds units in Egypt in turn 1, those are IPC’s not put on London, potentially inviting Sealion.

In other words, a UK IC in Egypt as a bid makes it easier on Germany - watch out. And then, of course, if Italy does manage to take it, you just built one for Italy.

Well… and if the IC in Egypt means no sub in 98, then UK is weaker in the Med at game start. Trade-offs.

OK! Did a little analysis on 2023 to date. (yeah, it’s not my turn in either game, right now :relaxed: )

We are a little over 1/3 done with 2023 (believe it or not).
Overall games are steady from 2022.

Balanced Mod is down significantly - can be accounted for by trulpen health issues, and 1 other of the most active players of 2022

Path to Victory holding steady from 2022 so far. 2021 a big year for PTV when it was new/newer, of course.

BUT! Out of the box has come back to life?!
Hmmmmmmm… I never did like the Iwo NO or all those Med NO’s… Oh, that’s right, they tried to make almost every island worth money - never agreed with that.
Or changing the capital rules to where you can’t raid money more than once…
Or the China rules… Hmmmmmmmmm

But those Russia NO’s were sorely needed. And I don’t even remember what the Japan/Russia at war rules were, they changed several times. BM was good on that.

Right, all of you are right, and I just wasn’t clear on what I meant.

I was not making a judgment on what out of the box should mean. Of course it means the 2nd edition, the latest version to date.

I have the P40 and E40 that was first made available in stores, on my shelf, and those are the boxes I opened many years ago. That is the G40 I first laid eyes on, so that will for ever be the G40 “out of the box” version that I think of every time I hear “out of the box” even though I know that it’s not. Because I never bought 2nd edition, because it’s just a different rulebook and maybe setups.

…

Anyone who was there, in 2010 or 2012 or whatever, will enjoy this:

There are not enough tactical bombers in my brand new game, for the game setup!