I'd been giving some thought to running a competition slightly different to what we have had before - I indicated as such some weeks ago, but warned that it would be October before I could do anything regularly due to my other hobby - my racing dogs What I'm hoping to create is a league table of forumites giving each player a listing, or rank - the object of course - being the forum's Number One until defeated. Think of it as being like boxing or tennis where players/fighters are ranked according to who they have beaten. This would be done using a Challenge system, whereby a player can issue a challenge to the player immediately above him in the rankings. I'll illustrate with some examples: Week 2 results 1. Ron 2. Stick 3. ROTO 4. Red 5. Oddy 6. Steve-o 7. Brough 8. Reebs Each week there will be challengers and defenders - challenges are only available UPWARDS starting with the last place, every second position. Therefore in the above table, I would be challenging Brough for 7th place, while he will be defending it. Likewise Steve would be challenging Oddy, Red v ROTO and Stick v Ron. A challenge will consist of the challenger selecting a horse from the FOURTH Channel Four race on Saturday afternoon and advising his selection on the forum, along with the staking method - win or ew (challenger gets to nominate first) I'll assume win stake unless ew is stipulated. Results decided by highest return to a 2 point stake. Defender cannot nominate the same horse as the challenger, and in the event of a draw, positions remain unchanged. If there are an odd number of players in the league at any one time, then clearly the numero uno cannot be challenged - perks of being the current king! Week 3 results 1. Stick 2. Ron 3. ROTO 4. Red 5. Steve-o 6. Oddy 7. Brough 8. Reebs In the above table you can see that Stick has knocked Ron off top slot, ROTO has beaten off Red's challenge, Steve-o has claimed 5th from Oddy and I have failed in my challenge for Brough. If a challenger fails to win, then they have to miss a week before making another challenge, so for the next weeks challenges, Reebs would be excluded, Brough would challenge Oddy, Steve take a crack at Red, ROTO take on Ron, and Stick has a free ride at the top. Newcomers would enter at the foot of the table, but may not be able to challenge in that week (dependant on numbers) A defender not making a selection will be assumed a loser and drop a position. A challenger failing to make a challenge will be penalised next week by losing his first pick privelege. Players who go missing for three consecutive weeks will be dropped out completely and if they wish to re-enter will start at the bottom again. All challenges must be made before the first channel four race starts. Defenders can PM me their selection if pressed for time. Any other contingencies will be dealt with on an ad hoc basis. The opening day's table will be decided by a "select-off" covering 6 races of ew selections which should mean EVERYONE getting enough points to form an opening table. There is obviously a strategic element involved, additional to selecting your horse. As a challenger faced with a race with a hot favourite, do you select the potential certainty and force the defender to try to get a place at better odds? Or do you go for say the second fav. leaving HIM with a tricky choice? Sneaky is good! Why the fourth Channel four race? Well, it could be 1, 2, 3 OR 4 as they always show a minimum of 4 races, but on the assumption that in general the better class races are a couple of races in, I went for the fourth. I realise that if they are covering three meetings it could be the second race at a particular venue but that's just the way it will be that day. The comp will run the same length of time as the League comp, but shouldn't impact on Chan's as it is just one selection here, which can also be used in the other competition. (I have also run this past Ron and Chan, just to be sure I wasn't going to tread on any toes!) It sounds complex but it really isn't as I will post the following week's challengers on the Monday, along with the Saturday results and new table. I'm hoping there will be a reasonable take up - there should be, considering how many forumites THINK they are number one If enough tipsters have the balls to go for this, I envisage Saturday 2nd November as being the day for the creation of the starting table, so I'd like to have an idea if it's a goer or not before then of course. Just in case this does take off, the 6 qualifying races will be the 2-10, 2-45 and 3-20 from Ascot and the 2-25, 3-00 and 3-35 from Wetherby Register your interest below please, your selections can wait until next Saturday Reebs Could a mod please sticky this until say Friday to see if it has legs? Cheers!
I'm only doing it because someone who puts that much effort into a thread deserves a bit of support. Well done for coming up with a new type of contest. I don't ever play the other ones but we ALL remember what happened last time your Champ entered the fray...
Well we have a top ten, so that's a positive sign Don't worry if you didn't fully understand it - all will become clear when people start to refer to you as number ten Stick and Bob - cream always rises, so they say, so you will one and two in no short time, yes? Unless MOG enters of course We can assume that next Saturday will be the start - or actually pre-season, as next weeks results will give us our initial opening top ten (unless more join during the week, then it could be a top twenty perhaps!!) As indicated in the opening post you will need to pick one horse each in the 3 Ascot and 3 Wetherby races, results based on a 2 point win stake unles ew is specified. And luxury of luxuries - you have all week to study them Thanks for your support chaps - I hope we can have a good time with this, and that banter will be taken in good sport, because what goes around, comes around!
Im struggling to follow too but maybe thats because i had a beer this afternoon after work Ill have a go
You had a beer at the Festival and it didn't seem to affect your selections? Oh wait ............. For our pre-season it's 2-10, 2-45 and 3-20 from Ascot, and the 2-25, 3-00 and 3-35 races from Wetherby. One selection in each race and results are to either a 2 point win or 1 point ew - win assumed unless ew stipulated. Don't worry too much about the rest - that happens NEXT week with the season proper. And at the moment there seems to be an odd number of takers, so whoever finishes top after tomorrow, will probably be unchallengeable until at least the third week - so try really hard!!! EDIT: I'll start another thread for your selections so please post on that one
Just seen this in between following the Breeders Cup and will give it a go. Good timing as the Jumps season is really cranking into gear now and I am hoping to follow that more this season
