Yeah, I gave you guys a draw yesterday, and Slytin McCheese, in order for me to wrap up the seasons and start working on the sort.
Whatsamattau - feel free man. I don't think anyone's gonna be crying about less Chaos in the league.
So here's where we are at right now midway thru the sort process.
Some explanations here -
Oblio dropped, but was good enough to stay in D1. If/when he comes back, he'll stay in D1, which is why his team is where it is. Because of this, Djay (who technically missed the cut) will stay in D1.
McCheese dropped, and he would have dropped to D2, so he's sitting in a D2 slot right now to denote that. If/when he comes back, he'll get slotted into D2.
Makkon was good enough to get promoted with the Chaos Dwarves (which would have been fun), so he's sitting between D1 and D2 right now. Again, he'll get slotted into D1 when/if he comes back.
Same with Dokomo and Adam, no promotion/relegation there, so they stay put, and Slytin is a drop too. I haven't heard definitively from Adam about both he and Slytin, the last I heard was "probably gonna drop" for both of them. So that's why they're both out technically.
Ronne and Skids got bumped up from D3, and I moved Stupidmonkey up too, because I need to have room for the D4 guys. They have the best record amongst the main teams (Restless' underworld actually did well, but it was an alt team, so we're ignoring it). D2 isn't in it's final condition right now...I will sort by number of points, and then split them as evenly as I can, so we don't end up with the orcs and chaos all in the same division. Hopefully it means for the D2 guys that you're not playing the same 6 guys you did last season.
Disdain won D4, because of that I moved him up to D2 because I needed to keep the divisions as even numbered as possible, and that was the way to do it. Plus he's got an orc team with some established blitzers, so honestly, he should be ready to go.
D3, Cyrus had a pretty rough season, compared to how well he did last season, so he stayed, and so did Superhiro. The balance of D4 was absorbed into D3, you guys will end up playing each other again, but instead of having 4 stunty teams to beat up on, now you'll have Nurgle and Orc and whatever Addlemixie picks as his real teams to compete with. Soft entry to the league, and now it's time to actually work for it.
The way it's set up currently, D1 has 8 players (because everyone in there should have to work for it), and then D2A, D2B and D3 have 7 players, and D3 has 6. This means I can give all of those divisions a bye week, and then a few people have said they'd be interested in playing another team in D3, ZP was pretty excited in IRC about having that chance yesterday. If we have a couple of D1 guys who want to roll up a new team (Doesn't have to be stunty) to play in the D2's and then anyone in D2 or above that wants to do the same for that last D3 slot we can do that. I'd rather have all of the bye weeks filled up though, if we're going to do that. Not fair to guys in D2A if they get a bye week and the guys in D2B all got a full 7 games that season or something.
Pros and cons for bye week -
Double winnings and 16 free random SPP for your bye week (2x5 for MVP's and 2x3 for TD's)
Counts as a game so MNG's heal up.
Reduces rage, gives everyone a break.
Only 16 spp if you had been generating a better average than this (not sure too many people fall into that category, but there might be a few)
Less games to develop your players specifically (thru feeding TD's)
More possible rage/scheduling issues with people playing 2-3 games per week in the summer months. There's undoubtedly more shit going on in the summer than in the winter - yard work, kids sports, days are longer, weather is nicer, etc. I don't wanna have 4-5 guys running 3 games a week and not being able to get their matches in because beer league softball starts in June or something.
Also, because of the way it's structured now and how many teams dropped and earned promotions, it may end up in Season 4 that the full promotions don't get implemented. Right now we've already got Oblio and Makkon who have won the right to be in D1, so if they come back, they'd win out over any new promotions from D2 next season, I'd say. It's the only fair way, RL shouldn't interfere with what you've already earned in the league.
But the lack of tackle makes a moderately skilled elf team very good, as any of your players can get dodge. Everyone with blodge makes even av7 team durable.
