With around 2 weeks before the start of next year, are we going to change the contest?
As far as I can see these are the options,
1) Status quo - Don't do anything
2) One of the alternatives.. little complicated .. and involves lot of work for the organizer. We can probably rotate the task of organizing among the forum members.
i) Have members pick atleast 10 golfers for the entire month. Breakdown of 10 golfers would be as follows,
a) 1 top 5 golfer
b) 3 top 30 golfer
c) 4 golfers between 31st and 100th ranked golfer.
d) 2 golfers ranked greater than 100.
ii) For each week, we will stick to our original format of
a) 1 top 5 golfer
b) 1 top 20 golfer
c) 2 golfers between 31st and 100.
d) 1 golfer ranked greater than 100.
iii) And contest member has to pick from his top 10 golfers every week. In case a contest member doesn't enter his picks, his picks will be automatically listed by the moderator, based on the rankings.
iv)In case a member cannot find five golfers to round out the current week, he can choose maximum of 2 players from the next bracket. For example, I pick Tiger woods and he is not playing that week. In which case, I can pick 6 through 30th ranked golfer (as per the current world ranking) to replace Tiger. And similarly if I can't find a golfer ranked between 6th and 30 from my list in the field, I have to choose a player ranked between 31st and 100 to replace him.
v)You are allowed maximum of two substitutions and after that you cannot pick anybody else. Organizer need not verify the substitution list and if any of the contest members find something wrong, they can post it .
vi) At the end of each month, contest members can refresh the list of 10 players they have. New list should follow the current world rankings. In case a contest member forgets to change the list, he can retain his original list AS-IS
I know this is a very complicated system..
3) Create a private group and play the yahoo fantasy golf. And have a thread to post the results in our forum every week. This is a simplest option.
4) Same rules as last year with some tweaks.
a) if a member doesn't pick for the current week, his players get carried from last week (with same rankings as his original grouping). Meaning if he picked Daniel Chopra as someone ranked over 100 and Daniel wins a tournament and gets in top 50, Daniel will be still considered a player outside 100. The old ranking groups will continue as long as the contest member doesn't make any change to his list. Any time he makes a change to his team, he has to follow the current world ranking. There is a chance that his original selection may not complete the entry. But then it is hard luck.
In this option, members can pick more substitutes (to safeguard them for next week).
b) Each golfer can be an picked only 10 times (At least institute such a rule for top 10 players or at the very minimum Tiger)
What do you think? May be combination of the changes suggested above. We need to come up with something very quickly...
. The worksheet there can have the latest golfers and you can choose your players and stuff. Will give some of us the chance to fool around with google docs as well.
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