I vote B unless we get 20 or more at 20 I say we go to A

I vote B

Cmon posters sign up it would be nice to get more players:p

I vote B as well.

I'll play. I'll send my money to TP in a few.

Okay
 

I officially am in now. Just paid TP.

Im paid and confirmed. Putting in the new motherboard this afternoon, woohoo.

cool we are gaining momentum. Looking forward to playing with you sharks:cool:

You can mark me off the list as I no longer play.

There are a handful of us in this now, but we definitely need more people. Remember, it takes 3 people to even HAVE a Private tourney on Stars, so < 10 isn't going to be enough for this league to get off the ground.

Looking at the first post in this thread, I'm not sure how many more people we're going to get. A lot of the remaining "interest list" are unreliable, to say the least...

Sorry I havnt responded to this earlier.

Count me in allthough I know I will be unable to make lots of the dates mainly due to the start times.

Now is it $10 or $50 I transfer to TP and is it to Rogue23 if so I will send later tonight.

$10 to TalkingPoker on Poker Stars

TY...ive now sent

Sorry, too many Sundays on the latest list for me, cross my name off. :(

hey you with the face Join up........ one day left.

TP, can you set the first one up for

Thursday 1/19/06 9:30 PM EST

Should we have a minimum # of players? I think we are in fact going to switch over to the points system instead of the "main event" thing FOR THIS TIME AROUND. I still think it would be fun to do if we can get more entries next time.

I will post the points distribution later tonight when I get home. That will give us tommorrow to make any changes if anyone objects to the distribution.

Done.

Password: tpfleague1

Grrrrrrr,

I already planned for tomorrow! No more schedule changes!!!!!!! I have to rereschedule shit now.:eek:

I forgive you. You will lose.

League Payouts (by point leaders after all events):

1st - 50%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%

Points for placing in each event:

one point for each person you beat out....

example:
15 players
1st place gets 14 points
2nd place 13 points
etc, etc
14th place gets 1 point
15th place gets no points

\Number of players doesn't really matter, but the more players the more points up for grabs.

Anyone like the idea of having an extra point for each event you play in and 5 points for playing in 8 or more events?

That is really simple, but it makes each spot you move up in the event matter. Thoughts??

That isn't a change....I copied that right off the main post.

That is the final schedule.

SCHEDULE (UPDATED)

Thursday 1/19/06 9:30 PM EST
Sunday 1/22/06 9:30 PM EST
Wednesday 1/25/06 9:30 PM EST
Sunday 1/29/06 9:30 PM EST
Wednesday 2/1/06 9:30 PM EST
Saturday 2/4/06 12:00 PM (noon) EST
Tuesday 2/7/06 9:30 PM EST
Sunday 2/12/06 9:30 PM EST
Thursday 2/16/06 9:30 PM EST
Sunday 2/19/06 9:30 PM EST

I added these to the forum calendar as well

Won't the people who play in the most events already have the most points? Or are we only taking the Top X scores or something? IF that's the case, then I like this idea... but if it's raw points, I think this hurts the people who can't make all the events too much.

If we were to do an "X number of events count", how many do you think would count out of the 10 events? 3?, 5?, 7? Only thing I see with that is that there is a pretty good chance of a tie for one (if not all) of the overall placings.

And then add the extra point (s) for attendance?
1 point for each event
5 points (additional) playing in all 10

I have been out of town for the past 5 days or so, and this is sneaking up.

TP, just sent you the $10. Let me know if you get it.

I guess option B would work for now, hopefully A in the future. One suggestion I would have if we get more people and do a main event, is to have that be a freeroll entry for qualifiers only. I would not want just anyone to play in that. It should be the best of the best. Probably next time though, so just think about it BB and TP.

As far as the points go for this, I agree with TP. This points system is flawed. We have used this formula in the past, and I think it works great. Multiply # of entrants *10, then give a percentage of those points to the top ? finishers.
Example, 12 players, 120 points available.
1st 40% =48 pts
2nd 25% =30 pts
3rd 15% =18 pts
4th 10% =12 pts
5th 6% =7 pts (rounded down)
6th 4% =5 pts (rounded up)
(maybe if we had less than 10 players we could give points to top 4 or 5 or whatever?)

One last question, How is this restricted? Could anyone join a tourney, by getting password here? TP already posted first one. Is this going to be invite only based on who joins?

Not sure how many I can make, but at least a few. Thanks to BB, TP etc. for setting this up.

Got the transfer.

And don't thank me... BB (and Swa, who seems to have disappeared) did it all. I just set up the actual tourney.

I agree with you about the point system, btw.... and I really don't think we can use ALL the results. Anyone who misses even one or two matches will be crippled. But I'm leaving it all up to BB to hammer out the details. Whatever he says goes.

Ok, I think this would work. I would rather go with something that has worked in the past that something new.

NEW POINTS SYSTEM

--Your best 6 events count toward the overall total

--Number of points in play will be {number of players x 10}

--number of payout spots (splitting up the points) will be determinted as follows:

3-4 players
1st - 60%
2nd - 40%

5-8 Players
1st - 50%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%

9-10 Players
1st - 50%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%

11-20 Players
1st - 40%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%
5th - 6%
6th - 4%

20+ Players
1st - 35%
2nd - 25%
3rd - 15%
4th - 10%
5th - 6%
6th - 4%
7th - 3%
8th - 2%


3-4 player senarios are in there just in case, but I don't think we should eeven play an event if it is less than 5 handed. Is it possible to set that in when setting up the tourney TP?

As far as the passwords, if someone enters that is not a member of the league they WILL generate points (their play will add 10 points up for grabs in that event) but at the end they will be removed from the calculation for placings and WILL NOT recieve any points toward the prize pool.

League Payouts
 

LEAGUE PAYOUTS (UPDATED):

Based on overall points total from top 5? events

1st - 50%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 20%

Ok, the first post is updated with all the changes so if anyone is confused you can take a look there and see it all in one place.

TP, do you have a list of everyone you have recieved money from? Is it the same as the list in the first post? If not let me know. I will be sending out the PMs with the password tonight or tommorrow morning.

As long as you are paid up (league fee) before the event starts you will get points for that event.

A few questions/comments:

-Tourneys will automatiucally be cancelled if there are less than 3 players. This is a Stars rule.

-I thought we decided long ago that we don't care about "crashers." If someone not in the league (but hopefully from the forum) wants to play, so be it. They will get points and everything, but their points won't count towards the league until AFTER they pay up, and only for matches played AFTER they pay. I actually like the idea of allowing "crashers" in, since it will give us a bigger field, prize pool, etc. I also highly doubt we'd get anyone that's not a part of this forum anyway, and if we do, they will likely be someone interested in joining our forum and league, which is a good thing.

-I like the new point system. I think we should use people's best SIX results. We have a total of 10 events, right? That number just feels right to me, but I'm open to whatever.

-Stars names that I can cofirm as paid (in the order they paid) are:
Rogue23
jillaj
govman6767
trent1776
TimeToWinTD
JDpoker$tar7
Gordogg
PShabi
mayhem45
jimmym
drewjax
studiopet (<---- Edit: Paid after I made this post)

-Zybomb? fungusboy? Others? Let's go people...

I just transferred funds over to TP.

Lets Rock....

yes, 6 would be better than 5.

yes, what? I couldn't hear you:p

Don't make me paint you red.

You said:
Anyone playing in the tourney will generate 10 points put up for grabs toward the league, but only the lague players will be counted when we distribute the points for each event. So if a "crasher" takes first, then the 2nd place finisher (league member) would get the 1st place league points.

I say:
I don't think this is necessary. I think the league member who gets second should get second place points and no one should get first place points. That's easy enough. Think of the non league members like "defense" or something.

This made me LOL twice today.

BTW - Robbie Robb is confirmed now too.

I'd prefer All Time Goalie instead. Road hockey. Those were the days.

CAR!!!

Game On!!!!

Good times, good times...

In an ironic twist, I got scheduled for a MORNING shift tomorrow, so I got your crasher right here. <_< >_> (Still only 6 maximum dates I COULD make, so passing on the league this time).

Man up - send the 10 bucks!

I haven't even looked at the schedule yet, and I'm in :)

BB - you're in charge of keeping track of all the scores, right?

I don't really care one way or the other. We SHOULDN'T have more than 1-2 non-league players anyway, right? If there were a lot it could cause issues.

Why would you think I was keeping score???:p

Oh, you'll be keepoing score, Mister. For simplicity sake, let's just not count the score of the non-league players, and everyone else gets what they get.

I would like to get in.
 

I would have to player transfer someone money. I only have funds on UB. All help appreciated. im wsop2oo7 on stars

Even if there is a chance, why risk it. It would be really simple to just PM password to those in league. There are only like 12 or so of us. We spent all this time, and BB etc. did alot of work to set this up. It would be a shame if someone pissed someone off for whatever reason and then a couple donkeys crash our tourneys at the end or whatever. Shit we had a hard enough time getting players for regular TP forum tourneys, where we posted the password. If anyone down the road sees that we have a good league, and wants to join in, they will be all the more motivated and excited to join the next league.
Probably not a huge issue, but why deal with potential headaches, when we really dont have to. Simply pick a new password for the final 9 tourneys, and PM to those who are paid. Maybe we could add a late registration deadline, if someone want to join in after a few tourneys.
Again, just my opinions. We are all trying to tweek this to be the best it can be. I'll play as many as I can either way (actually probably about 6 max).


BB, if you need any help (points/PM's etc.) let me know.

OK, that is the word then. For this time around we will ignore non-league players in determining the league point distruibution. We'll see how it goes and decide if we want to change it for the next time around.

Since these are NOT freerolls, I have a hard time believing that anyone will join and disrupt the event (go all in every hand, etc), but on the other hand....I wouldn't mind having some dead money in there! For that reason I agree that I don't "think" we need to keep the password private. If we start to run into issues we will send it via PM for the rest of the events as needed.

I agree with Blibbity's thoughts regarding the password. As long as we don't have a whole ton of people show up, making it almost impossible for any of us to win, then it's not an issue. If one or two show up each week in an attempt to donate their $10 to one of us, who are we to say no?!?!?! :)

ok my funds are sent

PS: Blibbity, you dont have to send me a professional sounding PM, something more along the lines of are you playing if so pay up already dick, would be just fine :D

hey
 

Could someone help me get money on to stars. My ID is wsop2oo7. I have money on UB. Please someone help me get in the forum league.

This just won't be finished and done with....

So, I am looking at the first post and I remembered that I was going to ask what people thought of the overall league payouts. Right now I have 1st, 2nd and 3rd splitting the prize pool. We are at 14 players now and there might be a few more out there.

Should we go to 4 payout spots? 40, 30, 20, 10 maybe?

I would say if we do hit the 15 person paid mark, then let's bump it up to 4 places paid out. I think that with 14 people, 3 payouts is still good.

Sending to TP now.