Our scoring guidelines last year was (1st thru 9th):
20-14-10-7-5-4-3-2-1
In 2010, the NPP Tournament Committee wants to reward players that play! So NPP will award a point to all who enter a tournament. This means a loyal player can pick up 48 points by simply showing up! So the scoring table had to be changed.
The Michigan Poker Forum tournament on Wednesday had what I thought was an improvement over NPP’s scoring system. Remember, our league is based off of the TV show, Poker Superstars – and that scoring was 6-5-4-3-2-1, for six-handed play. But that scoring system seemed like a winner to me. But, that is the lazy way out, and the NPP Tournament Committee wanted the absolute BEST scoring system available.
So the tournament committee has been tweaking the possibilities between the four criteria: Adding a point to all who play, our old scoring system, the Superstars scoring system and the Forum scoring system.
We then researched the top poker leagues from around the country and asked for their point structure. Some had a complicated formula that factored the number of entries into how many points you could earn for your placement. I used our league average of around 20 players a night to take their numbers as it would apply to NPP.
And then we had to multiply all that by the X-factor – how often Davethedog would play at NPP this year, divided by the number of golf rounds he would play next year also. You think this is easy? You try to get your calculator to divide or divide by ZERO!
Anyway, after hacking into NASA’s super-computers, and using Faldo’s brain (which is more powerful than that piece of junk NASA has), the NPP Tournament Committee grinded out the calculations – and came up with the WINNER!
1st – 24 points
2nd – 19
3rd – 15
4th – 12
5th – 10
6th – 7
7th – 5
8th – 4
9th – 3
Played – 1
You will notice that it is a little top heavy, but NPP rounded down! Most structures researched really reward the winner or the top three spots.
Faldo, because of his Heads Up record wanted the point structure to pay 2nd place 500 points, but that request was turned down by the committee.
A pox upon them. What are your thoughts on this new structure?
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It looks good to me! I like the min point for playing and the points sound fair.
I think it is a fair and equitable system.
My only suggestion would be to switch the spread between 5th and
6th with 5th and 4th. There is a three point gap between 5th and
6th, but only two points between
5th and 4th place.
my only suggestion would be to ban or terminate with extreme prejudice the gifted LittleRedElf. I can't even get a few crumbs after he devours NPP as a snack.
P.S. beerhog also - not because of his "skill" but rather that I hate his guts.
Whoa. Check out the big brain of Absea98!!!!!! Looks like someone found a slide rule in a garage sale....
Yes, Absea98 has a good point. Should 5th place be 9 points? Maybe the tournament committee can reconvene (but before New Year's Eve imbibes begin).
Absea and LRE make a fine point. The change would result in the total number of points being available on a night from 100 to 99.
I hope the world will stay on it's axis if the NPP tournament committee makes the change.
It has been sent back to committee. Here at NPP, we let the serfs actually read and understand changes to their environment. The Congress of the United States should take note.
Serfs? LOL. I was peasantly surprised to see action being taken to correct this horrible wrong.
Just kidding, of course. I'm fine with what ever you folks come up with for points. I just like playing poker with you guys.
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