Yeap i know what you are doing Hulmey!
And i think the
timing was certainly unfortunate as your method, which seeks to negate the impact of existing points, resulted in immediately placing your clan at the top of the pile.
I do think that the way that the Thread was initiated (as a list of the highest scoring Clans) it got a lot of interest from the high scoring clans and then rightly or wrongly the scoring system sought to remove them from the top.
In a way that was the intention of the scoring system and i do not disagree, necessarily, with the motivation but the method may be a little off... well certainly for some tastes
Some of the problem with perception has arisen due to the structure of this thread; it took us in one direction (which was a nice buffing of the ego for those who started at the top.. well who doesn't like a little buffing!... ) and then very quickly seemed to change direction.
Like i Say Hulmey, i think you are getting a bit of an ear-full and your intention was not in truth prompted by the reasons outlined in the last couple of pages. 'Self glorification' etc
i think your intention was to have a little fun and make things a little more leveled-out so clans have not already lost before anything has begun.
However if you want the 'League/tourney or whatever, to be all inclusive and supported by all, maybe something needs to be adjusted to fully take stock of clan capabilities?
In my opinion, to keep more people on-board, you could:
A) Start from scratch (have the clan scores as separate and the clan challenges as another separate thing altogether. i.e. no 'seeding' based upon existing top 10 elite players.
Or
B) make the Clan point tally more relevant:
Perhaps you could add another aspect to the ranking.. so you could make it based upon 3 provisions; each making up a third of the ranking ratio.
for example 1000 points maximum awarded for the
winner of each section - down to 100 points for 10th.
i) 1/3rd top 10 elite average
ii). 1/3rd for the winner of the next 10 clan challenge
iii) 1/3rd awarded in a final tournement for all the clans.
- so in theory the 10th highest ranked clan could still win the whole thing if they won both ii) and iii) the most Challenge victories and the Tournament
just a very rough outline .. i have not committed too much thought to the detail and perhaps the maximum score should only be 500 or 1/5th of the total possible score for section i)
Otherwise it does make it very tough/impossible for the lower ranked clans to win.
Edit:
On reflection the scoring should perhaps be:
i) 25% top 10 elite average (500 points to number 1 placed Clan and 50 to 10th placed)
ii) 25% for the most successful win record in the next 10 clan challenges (500 points to number 1 placed Clan and 50 to 10th placed)
iii) 50% awarded in a final tournement for all the clans. (1000 points to winning clan, 900 2nd and 100 to 10th place)
With that method it puts more onus upon playing each other in the climactic final Tournament!
.. diminishing the impact of existing scores or the who is played in the clan Challenge.
Like i say, this is your thread and a really nice idea but we do seem to losing people along the way for whatever reasons.
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