Notes on Standings, Match Bonus Points and Bonus Point Multipliers, and Divisional League Play

1)      Standings are based on Total League Points (TLP) with the Average NS (Normalized Score) To Date being used as a tiebreaker.

2)      Match Bonus Points will be used starting in Week 3. Match Bonus Point Multipliers will be used starting in Week 7. From Sections VIII. B. and D. of the Rules:

B.        Points

When awarding match bonus points, a match will be treated like a game.  For example, in a three-player match, the winner of the match will receive 3 bonus points.  The 2^nd place player will receive 2 points and the loser, zero points.  A bonus point will also be awarded as in a 3-player game.  If the winner of the match scores more than the 2^nd and 3^rd place player combined, the winner gets a bonus point.  Otherwise, the 3^rd place player gets it. Typically, the winner does not score more then the other two players combined.  So, usually, in a three-player match, the bonus points will be 3-2-1.

Match Bonus Points will be used starting in Week 3 of the league. (This line is an addition to what is in the Rules that were given out at Week 1). 

Two player matches and 4-player matches are scored like 2 and 4-player games. However, if in a 4 player game, the winner of the match scores more than the other three players combined, then another bonus point is awarded to the winner of the match.

D.        Bonus Multipliers

For the third through sixth weeks of the season, the bonus points are awarded exactly as described above.  Starting in week seven, bonus points are multiplied by number from 0 to 3.  Each week, players will be assigned a bonus multiplier up to a maximum of 3X and a minimum of 0X (no bonus points for a given week) based on their previous week’s bonus multiplier and whether they lost, stayed in, or won their group.  If you are the winner in your group in a given week, then your bonus multiplier for the next week goes up by one (e.g. from 1X to 2X) unless it is already at 3X in which case it will stay the same; if you will be in the same group the following week, then your bonus multiplier will not change; and if you are the loser in your group in a given week, your bonus multiplier will go down by one (e.g. from 1X to 0X) unless it is already at 0X in which case it will stay the same. The bonus multiplier for week seven will be based on whether you are the winner of, stay in, or are the loser of your group in week six. The winners’ bonus multipliers will increase to 2X (from 1X), the losers’ bonus multipliers will go to 0X (from 1X), and all other players’ multipliers will remain the same for week 7 (at 1X).

This Section D is a revision from what was in the original rules that were handed out at Week 1.

3)      The League will be Broken up into two Divisions, A and B, with the better players in A, on the 6^th week of the Season. From Section VII. G. and H. of the Rules:

G.            Qualifying for A and B divisions

During the first part of the season, each player will qualify for Division A or Division B based on the following rule:  Starting with the 6^th week[1] of the season, any player who was the winner of their group two of the previous 5 weeks AND either was a winner of their group or did not move down to a lower group (or both) in at least two of the other three weeks will be in the A Division while all other players will be in the B Division. If more than n/2 (or (n-1)/2 if n is odd) players, where n is the number of players in the league, fulfill this requirement, then the lowest ranked players in this group will be placed in the B Division (so that n/2 (or (n-1)/2 as the case may be) players fill the slots for the A Division). If less than n/2 (or (n-1)/2) players don’t meet this requirement, then enough of the top ranked players will be taken from the B Division to have n/2 (or (n-1)/2) players in the A Division.

H.            Groupings and League Play After the 5^th Week of the Season

Once players are in their respective Divisions on the sixth week, they will be playing players within their OWN Division only for the remainder of the season. There will be at least two groups in each Division (for example, two groups of two players each for an eight person League). This is to prevent, say, a mid-ranked A Division player from having an advantage over B Division players should he/she were to be in a group with two mid-ranked B Division players.