PsychoScrum League Season 16: Season Mode

[TankerBel]

Oddly enough, the two teams that had trouble filling a full roster CONCIOUSLY decided on only drafting 5 players instead of 6.

Actually I drafted six players, beach. SnowBoard was a SnowShow.

Not once did we have to play with 3.

Samesies. More than half of our games have been 5v5, we have no issue with attendance, and last night was only the second week we have had less than 6. I had plans, and notified my team, and they all showed. I appreciate your concern about my teams attendance, but we've got it cover, Man.

[fishtank]

I got dibs on dash, turkeys.

[get some]

is supra a viable pick or no? just curious...im not a captain so its not my choice anyway but if a 6th man is needed it would be nice to know his status.

is dash on the table? he said last night that he has already been selected for a team. i havent been paying close attention so i wasnt aware of that.

Rx and Dj should be good for the rest of the season so i dont see us having attendance issues again. an unfortunate blip on the radar, but please lets come to a consensus on the above proposed rule change so that future mishaps can dealt with in a way that makes sense.

[Blind Cide]

I think Get Some's scoring proposal is fair. We might need to give a math test to qualify the scoreboard adjusters though.

[TankerBel]

@ GetSome.

I think you are a perfect example of how lack of attendence can be completely explained. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad that you are back for this season.
But I definitely don't think that the whole new points system is suitable for this league. "I just want to pwn, none of this -1 point stuff." Confucius said that.



@ Prof

This league is supposed to be relaxed, but most of all competitive and fun, and the 4v3 games don't fit the 'goals' of this league. I understand that one more person from your team would need to sit, and they would loose out on some fun, or a$s whooping considering your teams record so far this season. But anyway, I think that the 6 players involved in a 3v3 game would have a blast, instead of 4v3 when the stacked team has no fun because they are raining goals all game, and the 3 person team just gets wrecked. The majority of players would have a better time, and you prove nothing by winning 4v3. With even teams the games remain both enjoyable and full of actions. Either 6 players have a blast, or 7 don't have fun. As Lone said "Think about all, CRAY BABY"

[TankerBel]

We are planning to do a makeup game tomorrow at the normal game time.

Smacky, I meant that PSL is supposed to provide both fun and intense games.

[stinkfingers]

tankerbell is right, you guys is fags.

other than that, prof's point is well taken. teams that consciously passed on a 6th player are sorta SOL, and seem justifiably at the mercy of the team whose members show up to play. that said, 3v3 is a courtesy that you may or may not want to extend. our team did it for some other team this season, and we prolly paid the price for it. anyways...

i think a good new rule is that if you have a sixth pick left, you have to take it. should be in the spirit of the game to allow the new players a chance to play. that would settle this petty brush up.

last point: prof, our team is only 5 humble beings, but we all show for games. such is our dedication. Sparkelmotion! this sh_t is for realtm

[Feathers McGraw]

What i find highly offensive is the trashtalk against the team as a whole like it's everyone's fault that only 5 people were drafted. That's the captain's responsibility.
Rx was indisposed and he emailed us so, we didn't expect that happened. Things went sour for one night and now the whole frakking team are being called deadbeats?

How f*cking rude. Not cool folks.

Prof you can stop jumping the gun here, because I did read the rules. I wasn't questioning you getting 4 points... I (like YOU) wanted to play a nice even game... Things just happened to go south for one night.
For further proof of my vexation over the 4v3 rather than 3v3 thing I'll cite the rules.

ATTENDANCE: If a team shows up with less than 4 players, a 3 on 3 game can be played by mutual agreement (as noted above in Scoring). However, this can only happen once per team per season. If it happens a second time, a 3 on 3 game can be played by mutual agreement, but the team with poor attendance will not be eligible for the bonus point and the other team will be eligible.

If we had agreed to a 3v3 it would be legally playable. We could have not wasted time with a pointless match and actually scrummed. You know, actually tried to have fun. But it didn't happen much to my dismay, oh well. MEH.

[stinkfingers]

point is, when a cap'n deliberately passes on adding a sixth player, the odds of his team coming up short increase. why did your cap'n pass on the sixth player? because that player would likely be crappy. thus, he'd have the trouble of adding a crappy player into the rotation. he did it calculatingly. now that tactic has bitten you all on the a$$. that's life. we wouldn't be having this discussion if all the cap'ns had taken picks until the player pool was depleted. that should happen in the next psl IMO.

all other things being equal, it is a considerate thing to do to arrange to play 3 v 3. what prof's point is, is that all things aren't equal. he took the sixth pic while your cap'n did not, and he's putting that "lesser" player into rotation as a good cap'n should.

aka: live by the sword, die by the sword. this is the part where you guys die gracefully, i think.

[Reagent X]

I see now what happens when I am gone for a week! Hehe.

One problem we faced going into the last round of the draft was that there were not enough players for everyone to take a 6th player. So rather than force the last cappy to be left with 5, we decided to allow the last pick to be optional. So to avoid this in the future - we need more players in this league!

The discussion of alternative scoring is good and there is no doubt the current system can be improved. Let's think about that for next season. For now we have these rules, and some people choose to go for 3 on 3, and others 4 on 3. This is purely their decision. An interesting Faustian bargain? An insight into the soul perhaps? A weighing of values - yes; but all within the current rules.

As far as my team goes - I apologize again for not being able to show. I will be around the rest of the season and aim to reign down mass pwnage. I agree going with 5 players is a significant attendance risk, and sometimes you will get bit. No biggie. Just tacklin' fuel.