general league rules

[Talking Poker]

Just in time for me to miss the first week or so because I'll be in the Bahamas

[BDMK]

ok, i think this might be a tad more difficult to set up than i initially thought.

but, at least, let me share with you my general thoughts on the whole thing, for what they're worth, and being that i'm still a newbie around here, i'll simply let all of you forum vets/2 mods/1 owner decide on the final details, etc.

lets say 10 games in 10 consecutive weeks, most preferably on weekdays/weeknights, as sat/sun are big event/sat/qualifier days on all the major sites. i'd start in mid-january, or around/after jan 15, 2006, to be exact, so ppl have time to come back from any extended vacations/wpt bahamas/aussie millions/etc.

i'd like to see it all on stars and all NLHE. i fully admit to being selfish on both of these points, because stars is where i play only and NLHE is the only poker format i play/know/have interest in. however, i dont think most ppl will object to an all-stars league, being that most here seem to play there a lot. also, since NLHE is by far the most popular poker game anyway, i dont think an all-NLHE format should be a huge problem too.

lets say make the league events half freeroll and half buyin, and all equally counting towards the league standings. the buyin component, in itself, should effectively shoo away any potential remaining freeroll chasers. further, as i already said in the other related thread, there is a fine line between potentially a total chaos, if everything's totally free, on one hand, and very few, if any ppl, attending anything at all, if it becomes 'expensive' to participate, esp on a regular basis, on the other. to that end, i dont think there should be any league entry fee at all as well. also, i'd keep the buyin events at the min allowed pvt event buyin amt on stars, which i think is $5, or to be exact, $5+0.50.

as for the league points, i'd make them as simple as possible. the last league i attended had a somewhat complicated math formula, which i dont think is really necessary at all. i'd just award league points to all the final tablers of an event, and perhaps as simply as this: from 10 pts for 1st place down to 2 pts for 9th. or, if u want to keep it simple/'decimal', top 10 finishers: from 10 pts for 1st place down to 1pt for 10th.

keep the individual event prizes as small as possible, in other words no need to add anything extra to the prize pool, except of course for the freeroll events. give the rest/bulk of the total league prize pool to the final league winner(s) up/down to, say, 10th place.

that's it from me for now. if i have/remember anything more to add later, i'll edit this accordingly.

EDIT: two more things, real quick: 1) can u pls sticky this thread; 2) can we keep all league suggestions/brainstorming/etc in this/one single thread, just for the sake of simplicity?