Blood Bowl Week 5

[Panda with issues...]

I would also like to thank Tempscire and Thatbloke for coming in as subs in the early days.

And also to Huung, who stepped up and took over for Pwnstar who lamed out.


Magos: You've had some sickeningly good skill up rolls. - +1 stength on the rat ogre? Mutation roll for two heads for a gutter runner? Sickening!

 

[cheezewizz2000]

I'll be back from my honeymoon on Tuesday, so I'll be free to play me next game from then. TBH I'm surprised I even made it this far, given that I'm a newbie to BB. Let's go Longrunners!

 

[Kasatka]

Ive definitely had a good time, though i feel the next league should be at least 8 weeks long... ive found chaos hard to get rolling quickly, and only just got into my stride in week 4/5.

 

[Ronin Storm]

i feel the next league should be at least 8 weeks long

My reading around indicates that 8 matches is considered to be a short league. That said, I think we may be a little unusual in that we were playing our matches just once a week. Personally, I'd be happy with a 16 week league, plus 2 to 4 for playoffs and finals.

The trick is going to be figuring out what to do for those weeks where a team can't play. Maybe we just do as we have done this time and throw in some default score.

 

[Zooggy]

Hoy,

The trick is going to be figuring out what to do for those weeks where a team can't play. Maybe we just do as we have done this time and throw in some default score.

Alternatively, give up on the "official" league management software altogether and let people manage their own games.

Just draw up the order of matches and make people aware that they can't play their match number four before they play their match number three, and that they can't play non-league matches with the league team.

That way, there's no "button to push" and the league will proceed at the speed of its slowest player, which is not that horrible, all things considered.

Cheers,
J.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Alternatively, give up on the "official" league management software altogether and let people manage their own games.

We were wondering about that. The main disadvantages are twofold:

First, it will require more ongoing effort to keep the league maintained. This may include requesting that everyone always posts the replay for a match so that we're not maintaining a by-hand list of matches, goals, etc.

Second, it forces the games to use Classic rules. While that's not a terrible thing, we were musing on using some of the extended stuff from the Blitz ruleset.

That said, it's clearly advantageous from a flexibility point of view, potentially allowing weeks to merge a little if a person can't make it one week but could do two games in the following or something like that.

The biggest thing for us is ongoing maintenance, I think. Say we get 14-16 players again... personally, I'd like to be able to play every team at least once, so that would be 13-16 weeks. Or 3-4 months or real time. Just need to be sure that, starting up, we can carry that through. I think we can, but hence my slight concern about start date earlier.

 

[Panda with issues...]

I guess my ideal start date for a long term league would be late november, after I get back from Zambia. I don't see any issues with a quick casual league before then, but Ronin, Ghostwolf and I want to discuss how we want this to play out, preferably tonight, so we can get people into their playoff games.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Well, now having my connection back I'd be happy to use some packets for the purpose of planning...

Though I do need to be up early tomorrow to get to London so 22:00 finishing no later than 23:00 would be best for me.

 

[Panda with issues...]

THats fine. Ghostwolf and I were going to catch up with a bit of ArmA anyway tonight, so we can tag that on before/after.

 

[magosreborn]

Magos: You've had some sickeningly good skill up rolls. - +1 stength on the rat ogre? Mutation roll for two heads for a gutter runner? Sickening!

The Great Horned One and the Council 13 looks over me

the moment i try to play out side of the league now all my players are gonna die.

Thanks to everyone involved its been awsome

 

[Huung]

I assume the powers which be have spotted this already... but the current league is set up as a league, rather than a tournament...

As such, if you go to the 'History' tab in multiplayer you'll see it's relegated those at the bottoms of Div1 and 2, and promoted those at the tops of Div2 and 3. Cheezewizz has also "won the season". Season 2 is now in progress apparently. I would therefore hazard a guess that once we all played all of our games, it just did this automatically, without a magical button press, and this is why we can't see rankings any longer...

 

[Panda with issues...]

Hmmm. Not sure how the game has worked out that Cheezewhizz is the winner, since Bob ended up on more points, but i'll have a look at that another night.

So, per request, this week is a bye week, to allow all the non qualifiers to slink back to their holes and lick their wounds and perhaps plan for the future, whilst also allowing those stirling challengers in the playoffs the time to plan deviously for their upcoming opponents.

We'll start the playoffs next week, and ghostwolf will kill this league dead before any more games are played. Replays from this first league to be posted in the other thread, which will leave us with a permanent record of nefarious deeds.

Good luck to all the playoff teams, except maybe to Bob, with his ridiculously overpowered dwarfs, oh, and no good luck to Cheezewhizz, who's elves never had the injuries they deserved cath up to them. No good luck for Zoogy either, who's horribly clean man things scored so many more touchdowns than my skaven. Definitely no good luck to CoTD either, for playing skaven better than me...

Good look to the other playoff contenders though.

 

[Huung]

Hmmm. Not sure how the game has worked out that Cheezewhizz is the winner, since Bob ended up on more points, but i'll have a look at that another night.

The game thinks it's the end of the first season of a league, hence the person at the top of Division 1 "wins" the first season. Over time people would shift around, and the divisions would actually become proper divisions based on skill, rather than the random starting ones we were placed in.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Yeah, we've been looking at the setup and I think we probably intended a Cup arrangement rather than the league it turned out to be.

It's likely that the next league will actually be a single group Cup with semi-finals and finals at the end.

 

[Kasatka]

I dont mind have a long (ie permanently) running league with divisions base on skill, but i think we'd need to run it using other software ourselves.

 

[cheezewizz2000]

Because I "won the season", I've been awarded 80,000 gold. I think this gives me an unfair advantage over all the other teams when we finally come to the play-offs. Now, if you're happy to let me spend it, I will buy another re-roll (taking me up to 2) and the rest of the teams will just get that much more petty cash for inducements, or I'll leave it alone. Your call. I won't touch it until a decision has been made, however.

 

[Huung]

I dont mind have a long (ie permanently) running league with divisions base on skill, but i think we'd need to run it using other software ourselves.

Based on the outcomes of this league we could tailor the divisions a little better and let the in-game software take charge. Ie. take the top 6 on points/TD diff and stick them in the top division, then the next 6, and so on.

Also, I don't mind classic or Blitz modes for the league. I've played 'classic' via tabletop, so I'm used to teams getting to silly 'team values'

 

[Panda with issues...]

Because I "won the season", I've been awarded 80,000 gold. I think this gives me an unfair advantage over all the other teams when we finally come to the play-offs. Now, if you're happy to let me spend it, I will buy another re-roll (taking me up to 2) and the rest of the teams will just get that much more petty cash for inducements, or I'll leave it alone. Your call. I won't touch it until a decision has been made, however.

Please don't touch that until after the end of the playoffs please. At that point it won't matter. I also suspect Tempscire ended up with 40,000 or so, but that isn't going to affect anything.

 

[Panda with issues...]

I dont mind have a long (ie permanently) running league with divisions base on skill, but i think we'd need to run it using other software ourselves.

Based on the outcomes of this league we could tailor the divisions a little better and let the in-game software take charge. Ie. take the top 6 on points/TD diff and stick them in the top division, then the next 6, and so on.

Also, I don't mind classic or Blitz modes for the league. I've played 'classic' via tabletop, so I'm used to teams getting to silly 'team values'

We'd probably prefer not to do this, as it would prevent everyone playing everyone else. Things would get stale quite fast, especially if there is less diversity in races the next time around.

 

[DocBot]

just got back from the sailing trip, apartment is rented out (not my idea...), have to forfeit. Sorry nanor.