Changes for Next Year

JensenS · 01-18-2008, 09:45 AM

I've got these saved in a document for now, but I figure I'll toss up a thread to solicit some more from you guys.

1. Finish the damn draft before the season starts

2. Add in the PSU Open, MSU Open, Body Bar, and then some tournament of primarily West Coast teams as scoring events

3. All Star Dual will count for points

4. Keeper Option will be a go.

5. Two wild card spots to NCAA's for highest non top 4 teams during Conference week. Do away with h2h in the playoffs.

Any of you guys know a tournament with mostly West Coast schools where teams send most of their starters?

MOJO · 01-18-2008, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by JensenS

I've got these saved in a document for now, but I figure I'll toss up a thread to solicit some more from you guys.

1. Finish the damn draft before the season starts

2. Add in the PSU Open, MSU Open, Body Bar, and then some tournament of primarily West Coast teams as scoring events

3. All Star Dual will count for points

4. Keeper Option will be a go.

Any of you guys know a tournament with mostly West Coast schools where teams send most of their starters?

Brother Commish,
These changes sound great. As far as your question regarding West Coast schools, The Cal Fullerton Open and the Best of the West are two that lots of West Coast D1 schools participate in. The All Cal Tourney at SF State is primarily D2 I think, although Stanford, Cal Bakersfield and Cal Poly send mixed teams 1st and 2nd stringers.

Also, its not a western tourney, but how about considering the Keystone Open here at Penn? It's fairly small, but the list of teams has included Iowa St.; West Va.; UVa. Edinboro, and Navy among others. Its fairly early season too (Nov.or early Dec.).

JensenS · 01-18-2008, 10:56 AM

Thanks Mojo, will definitely go with at least one, from the Fullerton Open, or the Best of the West, maybe even both to try and get some primarily West Coast competition.

I'll think about the Keystone Classic, the Missouri Open, and maybe the early season Brockport tournament too.

Probably go with two out of the four here.

LoSt · 01-18-2008, 12:22 PM

I dont know about the whole open tournament thing... a lot of those tournaments dont exactly have the best competition around.

Id rather have a system where if you get a win over a ranked guy in a tournament like that you get points for it but all the d3 guys and d1 3rd stringers dont count for points.

MOJO · 01-18-2008, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by LoSt

I dont know about the whole open tournament thing... a lot of those tournaments dont exactly have the best competition around.

Id rather have a system where if you get a win over a ranked guy in a tournament like that you get points for it but all the d3 guys and d1 3rd stringers dont count for points.

Brother LoSt,
I think that is part of the strategy when making picks, look at the schedules to determine where you are most likely to score points, as opposed to just picking the highest ranked wrestler. I actually would be all for counting ANY tournament on the wrestlers schedule.

JensenS · 01-18-2008, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by LoSt

I dont know about the whole open tournament thing... a lot of those tournaments dont exactly have the best competition around.

Id rather have a system where if you get a win over a ranked guy in a tournament like that you get points for it but all the d3 guys and d1 3rd stringers dont count for points.

I'm adding a few more competition dates for next year, this isn't debatable.

I also think I'm going to tinker with the "your guy knocks off a #1 ranked guy" bonus. I think I'm going to make it relative to how your guy wins. You win a decision, its the three for decision, and then three bonus. You win a major over the #1, its the four for the major, and then a four point bonus, and then so on.

Also due to popular demand I'm going to institute some level of bonus for winning a tournament, so that we don't have as many instances of 3rd placers at weights outscoring champions.

goferphan · 01-18-2008, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by LoSt

I dont know about the whole open tournament thing... a lot of those tournaments dont exactly have the best competition around.

Id rather have a system where if you get a win over a ranked guy in a tournament like that you get points for it but all the d3 guys and d1 3rd stringers dont count for points.

you gotta love LoSt...

LoSt · 01-18-2008, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by JensenS

I'm adding a few more competition dates for next year, this isn't debatable.

I also think I'm going to tinker with the "your guy knocks off a #1 ranked guy" bonus. I think I'm going to make it relative to how your guy wins. You win a decision, its the three for decision, and then three bonus. You win a major over the #1, its the four for the major, and then a four point bonus, and then so on.

Also due to popular demand I'm going to institute some level of bonus for winning a tournament, so that we don't have as many instances of 3rd placers at weights outscoring champions.

I guess its your call but I think we might as well add all open tournaments if we're going to use more then just the big ones

JensenS · 01-18-2008, 03:41 PM

No, we might as well not.

Its not like I said I'm going to retroactively score these open tournaments for this year. If I'd said that, then yeah maybe there might be some objection.

Everyone will be drafting under the same rules, you'll have the same opportunities to poach points at the few tournaments that I add in that everyone else will.

LoSt · 01-18-2008, 04:12 PM

I see Jensens is cracking his boss whip again so I'll refain from commenting further.

Changes for Next Year

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