Poker.com League

Fonz, many active members here liked the jetset league. I was thinking of again running a mini legue on the bunch of poker.com freerolls. starting with the one the 29th and ending the 30th of September. U decide the prize. There is only one inconvienience. I wont be able to record all the scores since i'll be leaving the 20th of August. I can get someone else to help out the last two games. What do you think?

i can donate a small prize for the winner

however, i personally dont have the time to update something like this. Though if yourself or other members want to set something like this up then ill put up a small prize for the winner

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I missed the jetset league, could anyone explain how this would work?

I will do the scores. All I need to know is which games are part of the league.

Only players who end up in the money will be getting tournament points. Points are calculated by the square root of the number of people entered for that week divided by the square root of your place. Then multiply this answer by 10. Anyone got other ideas???

no, sounds like a good plan to me
what about the poker.com freerolls that have already took place, will they count?

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I like this idea sounds great- Kind of odd to have a freeroll league but it will be fun.

Im all over it like a fat kid to a bag of skittles.....Poker.com has become my home away from home lol!!!!

I've got an idea. I'm a graphic designer and we can have a little "bragging rights" prize. I could make an avatar with which month/event you won and a trophy and personalized for you and you can keep it for the whole month following your win. If you defend the next month or more, you could get something else put on the avatar, the more you win, the more it is shown. Kind of like the bracelett with the wsop cash.

Probably a bit late, but this thread just came to my attention..Anyways:

I was wondering, how you obtained this formula. It isn't spectacularly difficult, but still, I'm interested.

ESPN reviews the different poker rankings out there.

Your formula basically accounts for the following:
- The high placing you get in a tourney, i.e. your finishing ability;
- The amount of entrants.

Of course, I have no problems with these, as they are only completely natural criteria.

I do have some extra suggestions:
- Not every tourney may have the same importance, in which case it is probably to weight tournaments by prize money, for instance;
- Even though we're all poker addicts, it's unlikely that we all get to play the same amount of tournaments due to time constraints (or whatever). Your system would imply an additive effect. While the idea behind is good -- e.g. you don't want a player who won his only tournament placing above players having finished in the money several times -- it is slightly flawed. There has to be some cutoff point. Suppose player A and player B are just as good, but Player A plays alot more than B. A will automatically place higher, but the rankings would not reflect the actual level between them. By introducing an average points system (with a minimum requirement of say, 10 tournaments), one could reflect the level of a player better. Of course, that would be flawed in the sense that could actually stimulate not playing (e.g. a player has won 10 tournaments in a row, and will not play anymore in order to maintain his perfect ranking). Perhaps the better alternative is to introduce a rolling rankings system such as the former Tennis ATP rankings, where the best 14 (or any amount you deem to be appropriate) results count. This lessens somewhat the impact of "playing more, will most likely yield a higher ranking".

It certainly is more of a hassle to keep a rolling system updated, and it may be a bit too serious for such a "fun" thing. But I think it may be worth considering implementing (should this thing ever come into fruition after the poker.com freeroll debacle).