WNL Spring 2001
Fellow Netrek players, the roster submission form and players
seeking teams forms for the 2nd WNL season will be open on Feb. 17, 2001.
Rosters and players seeking teams should make every effort to join by
Sunday, March 11th. Schedules will be completed and mailed by Wed., March
14th, with the opening day being Sunday, March 18th.
Again, the primary differences between the two leagues have been
discussed previously, but are summarized again below:
WNL INL
Fixed Schedules Semi-fixed schedules
Fixed starting times Varying starting times
Penalty for starting late Delaying the game not penalized
Continuous scoring Absolute planet count
Swiss-style ranking Win-Loss ranking
Captains of teams are on Captains can voice input,
organization committee but have no power unless
they also join the INLC
No single head of league One League President
Several rule changes have been made since the inaugeral season. These
are:
1) Teams will be given 2 weeks to play each game, with the game
being autoscheduled for the 1st Sunday or Tuesday of each biweek.
Captains are given carte blanche in rescheduling, though Thursday and
Saturday will be recommended make-up days.
2) Teams can designate themselves as Eastern, Pacific or European
upon signing up. Starting time will depend on what teams designate
themselves as (default will be Eastern).
Day Eastern Pacific European
Sunday 1500 eastern 1530 eastern 1500 eastern
Tuesday 2100 eastern 2130 eastern NO GAMES ON TUES.
Priority will be European > Pacific > Eastern.
3) 60/20 minute games with 12 army starting will be league
accepted official games if both captains agree.
4) Rules for impeaching organizers was added, as well as a rule
requiring an organizer to be an active WNL member.
5) Late starting will now be penalized in planet count and not a
direct forfiet. The opposing captain must also give a warning to the
opposing captain (allowing him to start and avoiding the penalty) that he
intends to seek a late start penalty from the WNLC. Note: there was not
one occurance of a team seeking a late start forfiet all last season.
6) Forfiets are handled slightly differently inorder to keep the
total points a constant through-out the season.
7) Rankings during the season will be determined by iterating the
results 25 times, using the final scores as the seed for the subsequent
iteration (i.e. negates when you play a team in the season for
determining final playoff rankings).
8) There will be no 500 point minimum for a team's point value.
9) The WNLC will schedule play-off games.
10) The continuous scoring changed so that planets are worth only
1 or 2 points/tick (opposed to the 1-4 last season) and the weighing is
now exponential (opposed to linear) to make the end game significantly
more important this season.
Lastly, several issues were voted on but not passed. These were
switching off of continuous scoring, allowing <5 roster members to
constitute an official game (though this is being re-voted on), and
changing to a continuous scoring where 1 planet = 1 point/tick.
Attached is a list of the items voted on and the votes of your WNLC
representative.
The WNL can be reached at http://www.netrek.org/wnl/. We encourage
everyone to join and give the league a try. We believe it offers many
improvements to league Netrek and is built around the interests of the
players and designed to be easily adapted to the desires of the active
Netrek community.
-WNL committee
************************** VOTES BELOW ******************************
1) Staring Season 2/1/01:
YES - KB, DA, DS, KH
NO - KA, RH, JP, HW
ABSTAIN - CS, AN
2) New 1.g and 1.h rules (replacing organizers):
YES - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
3a) Continue using c-scoring:
YES -KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH
NO - HW
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
3b) Switch to planet count scoring only:
YES -
NO - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH
ABSTAIN - JP, HW, AN
3c) Switch to alternative scoring system:
YES - HW
NO - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, JP
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
4) Modifid rule 7.f and 7.g (60 min, 12 army):
YES - KB, RH, CS, KH, JP, HW
NO - KA, DA
ABSTAIN - DS, AN
5) Modified rule 6.e (starting times):
YES -KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
6) Modified rule 6.g (late start penalty):
YES - KB, KA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO - JP
ABSTAIN - DA, AN
7) Modified rule 10.d-e (forfiet points):
YES - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
8) Modified rule 5.a (Playing with <5):
YES - KB, CS, HW
NO - KA, DA, RH, KH, JP
ABSTAIN - DS, AN
9) 2 weeks for each game (Sun - Sat):
YES - KB, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, JP, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - KA, AN
10) WNLC scheduled play-off games:
YES - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
11) New rule 10.f (No 500 pt, iterations):
YES - KB, KA, DA, DS, RH, CS, KH, HW
NO -
ABSTAIN - JP, AN
12) exponential weighing:
YES - KB, CS, KA, DA, RH, JP
NO -
ABSTAIN - DS, HW, KH, AN
13) Iterate 25 times during season to determing ranking:
YES - KB, DS, KA, DA, HW, RH
NO -
ABSTAIN - CS, JP, KH, AN
14) c-scoring: planets 1-2 points:*
YES - KB, DA, HW, RH
NO - KA, JP
ABSTAIN - CS, DS, KH, AN
15) c-scoring: planets 1-4 points:
YES - KA
NO - DA, JP
ABSTAIN - KB, CS, DS, HW, RH, KH, AN
16) c-scoring: planets 1 point:
YES - JP
NO - CS, KA, DA, RH
ABSTAIN - KB, DS, HW, KH, AN
17) Official games allowed with maximum 3 WNL-member subs
YES - KB, JP
NO - CS, DS, KA, DA, RH
ABSTAIN - HW, KH, AN
*: while this did not get the requisit 6 "YES" votes to pass, it is
the current server default and will be maintained since the other
cscoring options only got 1 YES vote each.
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KB: Kevin Bernatz
KA: Karthik Arumugham
DA: Dave Ahn
DS: Dave Swasey
RH : Rich Hansen
CS: Chuck Scott
KH : Ken Hanson
JP : Jiteshkumar Patel
HW : Heiko Wengler
AN : Alex Neilson
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