Solitaire Idea for across the country league play

[Reginald Rutledge]

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[the french guy]

My idea (very similar to slot racing proxy race).

Each coach engaged will play all the games of the week except his own game.

Example :

4 coaches engaged :

dimitri
reggie
ed
dre

First week :

home stadium : dimitri
games :
reggie vs dre
ed vs dre


2nd week :

home stadium : reggie
games :
dre vs dimitri
ed vs dimitri

3rd week :

home stadium : Dre
games :
Reggie vs dimitri
Reggie vs Ed


Now, we can stop the regular season since everyone played everyone else, OR go for a return row to make a 6 weeks season.

Then, the 2 best ranked teams make the championship final. That final game can be played on one of the "losing" teams of the league, or go to a not partial referee wich will play the game with internet tv broadcast.


The key thing is to never play your own team. If the league is composed of gentlemen, you'll not have to be afraid of cheating, robbery or whatever.

In france we made a Proxy race nascar championship this way. NO ONE untweaked or broke intentionnaly the cars of the other engaged racers. We made this for fun, it does not prove you've got the biggest ****. Just fun with friends. Even if, of course, you can make it seriously, it's really interesting to read the games reports on forums after, to see how your team worked on field.

In that system, concerning mailing budget, each engaged coach will pay only one time the shipping (or two times if you make home+away games row). For the final and re-dispatch of the figures after the league is over, simply make an entry fee matching the final mail cost.



EDIT : concerning standards

A good league needs some standards. A good proxy league needs also cheap and easy to follow standards : no expensive or rare material, no special skills needed to have fun.

In proxy slot racing, the entry fee combines the mail return cost + tires and sometimes a motor too. Everyone use the same brand and model of car. So everyone is on the same starting line.

Let's imagine that each engaged coach receive (including in their entry fee) a bag of ff.net figures (and maybe, why not, a sprue of facemasks). 22 figures. Every coach 's got the same.

With these figs, he'll have to build 2 legal (nfl rules for example) squads, O and D. Including the base, keep it to 4.0grams. Nothing more, nothing less. Customizing is possible, but if you want to use the bare figs, it's your choice.


Concerning rules, each receiving field will be allowed to have his own rules, and own surface (fiber, pvc, metal). Like in real life, a team has to adapt itself on they tourney games. Jetlag, cold, or whatever. It will be represented by the diferent types of rules and gameboard surfaces.

Concerning tweaking, it will be totally free. Use the bases you want, just stick with the weight. And remember that your tweaking will have to adapt to diferent fields and rules. For example, a fast tweaked but not reliable (course) athlete will be very useable in ttqb system, not in pass simulation.

No re-tweaking allowed during season. It will simulate the health of your athletes. Make a too fine tweak on a figure, it will work perhaps, but perhaps the athlete will be injured or sick (=lose his tweaking balance due to mail shipping, or whatever). REMEMBER YOU HAVE ONLY 2 STARTING SQUADS.


Concerning playbooks, we can imagine a standard PDF file you can print and include with your team package. So with a little work on that part (how to call the plays), your team will play your strategy, even if you're not really in command.

[Drk]

I think French Guy's format is plausable. I have some very similar ideas. The details would have to be ironed out but it is doable. I'd be willing to give it a go anyway.