From: pjw@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Streaker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.netrek
Subject: Re: New INL scheduling proposal:(long..please read this, however)
Keywords: READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS READ THIS
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:27:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

A lot of mumbo-jumbo deleted from Rob and Tom.....

The Problem with INL scheduling is simple to figure out!  The INL council gives
too much freedom in scheduling to the teams.  Look as all the professional sports out there in the world (I consider netrek as a sport... :) )!  Look even below the professional level even and consider the little league or even intramurals at your universities.  ALL GAMES ARE PRE-SCHEDULED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you see the Eagles and Giants tell each other that Sunday afternoon is a bad time for Reggie White or half of your special teams????  Heck NO!!!  If someone on you team isn't there...tough!!!  That's why each team has 2nd, 3rd, even 4th string Reggie Whites on their team, because the NFL has predetermined a time and place for the game!  AND THAT'S THAT.  No buts, ands or ors about it!  

So, you smart netrek fans...do you see where I am getting at??  I knew you were!   Case in point:  TWNN as you all know is an At-Large team.   We knew from the offset that we had the potential to be a very competitive team, but one problem arose (as we saw it), that is we might not be able to field a full team for every game, since we had such different lives (more than half of us working full time), so we came up with a plan to roster more that 8, 9 even 10 team member.  In fact, at one point, our roster 




had 14 or 15 people on it at one time.   I can't speak for Brick (our scheduler and potential '04 candidate) but I felt that we never were in a real crisis for fielding a full team, until near the end of the season.  It always seemed like we had enough people and even a sub!!  You can trust me, we probably have played the most games this season, something like 6+ scrimages 4 INL 1+ POST-INL, so that is the key!

So, my proposal is simple:

1)  Let the INL decide the game times and place,  be there! or you lose...
    Say 1 every Saturday or Sunday...like in football.  If we have 6 games	
	    that must be played, that means 6 weeks.  Also, with this format, the 
    playoffs can become larger in a sense, because the INL can schedule those
	    also.

2)  Require teams to have a minimun number of players...say 12 or so, that way
    the above schedule can work.  This also would allow for interesting 
    alternative for playing in the INL, such as SUBBING players during games.
    

ople.  That would make about 16-18 teams, which means you select 16-18 captain.  Then is a lottery...each captain chooses a player from the pool in a round-robin fashion.  (this is what we did during my little league days)  You can even had deals were teams can
trade players during the season (like in baseball) and have a cutoff date, before the playoffs so teams won't "stack" there roster.  Neat. or is it too much administration for you guys to handle?  Anyways, enough ramblings from me...  I'll see ya...or you'll see me taking that planet under you :)

Phil
aka Veep

Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA