Toulouse Draw - CHANGED

[raehl]

Bah...

You'll never have complete "fairness" as long as some teams are better than others, interdivisional play or not.

That's why you have prelims, semifinals and finals - after you look at prelim scores, you have a better idea who the "good" teams that day are. You stick 2-4x as many of the teams as you plan on advancing to finals into semis, just to make sure you get everyone DESPITE any inequities in the seeding, and since you're seeding semis based on prelim scores, semis are much better seeded that prelims were and thus give you a much better result when you move into finals.

A seeding system that is mostly fair most of the time (in the sense that everyone plays the same difficulty of teams) is the best you can hope for, but a system that is completely fair all of the time (in the sense that it's done EXACTLY the same way every time so any inequities are just the result of hands-off application of the rules and not someone's "feeling" on what is and isn't fair) is absolutely necessary.

Dynasty can only play so many games, so some people are going to be happy they don't have them and some will be unhappy they do. If you then try and give more moderately difficult teams to the teams that don't have Dynasty (or just another team you feel is as good as Dynasty), well, some people will agree with your assessment of team skill, and some won't. Can't win.

So just do it the same every time.

- Chris

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by sjt19
thats the new draw Tom
Robbo--> Which draw would you have prefered from your team's point of view?? The new or the old?
sam

Sam, the team really don't give two monkeys either way because there aint much difference between the two groups anyway.
All they wanna do is try to smash up as many of the top teams as they can and if we qualify, we qualify.
We come to learn, pure and simple and we will learn from every single team we play, it's just a matter of degree.
But I tell ya one thing Sam, we are gonna hit each and every team we play; at the very least, they are gonna know they played against us
Some of things we will be doing will most definitely compromise our chances of winning some games but it's a rites of passage that is neccesary for us to take so we can achieve our higher goal.
Should be Fun

TEAM !!!!!

 

[sjt19]

Originally posted by Robbo
But I tell ya one thing Sam, we are gonna hit each and every team we play; at the very least, they are gonna know they played against us

Cant wait to see some of the games then!

Originally posted by Robbo
Some of things we will be doing will most definitely compromise our chances of winning some games but it's a rites of passage that is neccesary for us to take so we can achieve our higher goal.
Should be Fun

TEAM !!!!!

i.e you will try new things out in some games, testing tactics etc...?

Good luck, and to all of the Uk teams, smash away!

sam

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by sjt19
i.e you will try new things out in some games, testing tactics etc...?
sam

Basically yeh, we can train all we like but we have to be able to introduce these approaches / stategies etc in a competitive high end game sooner or later and that is exactly what we will do otherwise we will never be able to master the things we are trying to do.

 

[Tom Tom]

Robbo are you guys playing Campaign?

I want to watch you lot play and cant make Toulouse so Roll on CAmpaign

Good luck to every one playing