XFactor to the NXL?

[MissyQ]

Yes, he was pretty spectacular, and I even noticed for the first time that there were actually 'ref-fans' out there. People actually cheering the refs for making tough calls. The ref you mentioned was actually an English guy, he collapsed with dehydration on Friday, 8 pints of fluid later he was back on the field reffing, and he was promoted to the Center Court feild on Sunday, where he reffed the finals to rapturous applause.

I see from your Sig that you know who it was...

 

[PSPGeoff]

Yes indeed, as the EMT was carrying that tough little guy off to the hospital he begged them to just put the intravenous bag under his shirt, so he could continue... to no evail, im not sure if you noticed but after his promotion no one even tried to sneak a look outside the dead-box they new that PGI's 163 greatest player of all time was watching them...

 

[Chicago]

and FYI Chicago, there is a set structure in the NPPL regarding how much your sponsorship commitment is as a company, and how much exposure you are allowed to the NPPL database.

Hrm, maybe that's the point of confusion then - I am not at all talking about mailings. I'm was talking about the NPPL main page. I wholeheartedly agree that WDP should put whatever it wants in it's allotment of mailings.

 

[PSPGeoff]

If WDP or any of there products was mentioned on the NPPL website it is because they paid for it, there is no conspiracy of favouritism... its pretty black and white... the same thing would happen for any company that paid for it.. really this should be the end of that discussion.....

 

[MissyQ]

Perhaps Chicago should become a platinum sponsor of the league, and then perhaps he will appreciate some of the ways that the NPPL look after their founder sponsors. Until then he will stamp his feet and scream 'not fair', as is his right as someone not in possession of the facts he needs to make a valid argument.

Seriously Geoff, don't waste your time with him.

 

[Chicago]

I know the extent to which the league goes to remain totally unbiased

I in no way intended to say that the league does anything other than wholeheartedly attempt to be unbiased, and I absolutely apologize for not being more clear on that point. I DO think that you run into trouble when the league appears to be putting more uncompensated effort into promoting a particular team's equipment when that team shares a sponsor with the league - like the current feature on the NPPL web page. If that is an ad that is earned through being a platinum sponsor, it should somehow be marked as an ad. If it's a regular communication about who won the event, then either all such communications should talk about how the team's equipment enabled their win or none should.

I also apologize for the timing and presentation of the whole 'equipment promotion in feature' thing. I went to the NPPL website to compare the NPPL and NXL rankings and I thus happened to notice the feature article then, so when I was responding about 'best teams' I wrapped it in there. It would have been an observation better made in a PM or some such instead of turning into just another item in an argument. I think you have a tendency to read more hostile intent into what I'm saying than I intend, and I definitely am guilty of leaving plenty of unnecessary room for hostile intent to be assumed, and combining the feature article thing with the best teams argument was in retrospect just asking for you to get mad, which I did not intend but probably deserved.

 

[Chicago]

If WDP or any of there products was mentioned on the NPPL website it is because they paid for it, there is no conspiracy of favouritism... its pretty black and white... the same thing would happen for any company that paid for it.. really this should be the end of that discussion.....

Paid-for content should be separated from non-paid-for content somehow, but other than that, yes.

 

[Chicago]

Once he assumed--in his last post--that surely we would both agree on the excessive nature of actually having all the teams play each other to determine who should move on I knew I was wasting my time.

Hey now, we were BOTH wasting our time!

If we can't agree on an axiomatic concept like a full-round robin when you have 16 teams is gross overkill, we're not going to agree on anything relying on that axiom. But I think you've been unduly critical of me for not sharing your opinion on that issue, considering the number of sports that would use a 16-team round robin over preliminary brackets with additional rounds. ('the number' being 'zero') The additional information you get playing 15 matches instead of 3 matches is just not worth the time or money.

 

[Baca Loco]

Right, I'm about to start pruning this thread excepting Chitown's sudden humility is disorienting.

As for the spate of NPPL cheerleading, cut it out or I'll have to burst your happy little bubbles.
Having just reviewed all the prior front page commentary on this season's events its plain that the NPPL appears to be endorsing a product and this is the first time. If Chi-town is suggesting that league endorsement versus league association is a legitimate issue then he's right and, Missy, you don't want to go there.
As for all this happy talk about the officials you two are going way off the deep end. We would have to start any dialogue with the status of the markers in play and we've done it to death and I doubt you want to do it again.
As for the drainage bit of a slope--no, the NPPL field was a bowl with each end higher than the middle and it was severe enough to alter the way the field played relative to that layout being on flat ground and as the show field for the event I was merely suggesting that perhaps more care ought to be taken it its placement in the future.

 

[MissyQ]

Understood Senor loco, but I would add that I haven't made an attempt to promote anything, and am always careful not to do so. The attention was drawn to the subject by our mid-western colleague, so much so that I think he is angling for a pay-check....
Endorsement is a strong word, but I can see how you got there. Perhaps if there were more Platinum sponsors there would not be the sudden 'back-slapping' operation that you notice now.

As for the ref in question, he's a personal friend of Geoff and I and we were just having a laugh. However - there are pages of bile to read through on here when the reffing is not up to scratch, so a few lines when they do a much better job is hardly overkill.

Your points re. the field are noted. Thankyou.