A-List changes
As you all know, I created the current A-List based on a website that tracked how often celebrities appeared last year in a number of different magazines. I would like to alter the A-list a bit so that it more accurately reflects our league.
To that end, after week 5 of this season and again after week 10 of this season I want to reconfigure the A-list. Who is on the A-list will be based solely on how many points that celebrity has racked up in our league. So if, after the first five weeks of play, we find that Britney, Aniston, Angelina, Nicole and Lindsay have garnered the most points, they will be the new women's A-list. I will post the new list in ample time for everyone to determine who they want to choose.
However, I have noticed that in the last two weeks a lot of teams have looked pretty similar--not surprising, since everyone is picking the most popular celebrities and we all make the same assumptions based on the same information. I think that one way to alleviate this problem is to make the A-list bigger. What does everyone think about this? There are a few approaches we could take:
Expand both the men's and the women's A-list to some larger number (seven men and seven women, ten men and ten women, whatever)
Expand both lists, but make the women's list larger than the men's list (it seems there is a bit more choice among which women to pick than men)
Keep the A-list the size that it is, but create a B list of some number (perhaps 10 women and 10 men), from which one can only pick two celebrities--so you would have one choice from the A-list of five people and two choices from the B-list of ten people. We could also decide to do a women's B-list but no men's B-list.
Does anyone have any thoughts on which approach might be best? Please respond in the comments!
To that end, after week 5 of this season and again after week 10 of this season I want to reconfigure the A-list. Who is on the A-list will be based solely on how many points that celebrity has racked up in our league. So if, after the first five weeks of play, we find that Britney, Aniston, Angelina, Nicole and Lindsay have garnered the most points, they will be the new women's A-list. I will post the new list in ample time for everyone to determine who they want to choose.
However, I have noticed that in the last two weeks a lot of teams have looked pretty similar--not surprising, since everyone is picking the most popular celebrities and we all make the same assumptions based on the same information. I think that one way to alleviate this problem is to make the A-list bigger. What does everyone think about this? There are a few approaches we could take:
Expand both the men's and the women's A-list to some larger number (seven men and seven women, ten men and ten women, whatever)
Expand both lists, but make the women's list larger than the men's list (it seems there is a bit more choice among which women to pick than men)
Keep the A-list the size that it is, but create a B list of some number (perhaps 10 women and 10 men), from which one can only pick two celebrities--so you would have one choice from the A-list of five people and two choices from the B-list of ten people. We could also decide to do a women's B-list but no men's B-list.
Does anyone have any thoughts on which approach might be best? Please respond in the comments!
posted by Red Fraggle at 4:05 PM
4 Comments:
Is there a chance of a draft?
Not this season.
Just as a little explanation, if we did a draft it would take a very, very, very long time to score everyone's team--there would be a lot of celebrities to keep track of.
Also, as we have started the season with this format, it makes sense to play it through this way.
One solution would be to have everybody score their own games.
Or you could set it up where one team gets to post their men first, and the other team posts their women first, and the two teams have to have completely different teams. This would ensure intragame variation and get around the posting problems of should I do it early in case there's internet difficulties or do it late to hide my team. And there wouldn't be that much intergame variation, easing scoring problems.
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