I'll start off with the final make up of the leagues:
Although, I firstly want to point out that I'll drop those relegated and send out new invites etc sometime this week. Apologies for the delay.



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* please note that underachievers asked to drop down to Div 3 to be able to play in the same league as his friend bigdog.
About a month ago, both Victor and minis let us know they're keen for this season, but neither of them have responded to recent PMs asking them to confirm, so we'll wait for them. Including Victor and minis, we have 8 players for the 4th league. 12 would be ideal, but we can start with less if need be. OutKast says he may have 2 friends that will play, and if anyone knows anyone else, let them know to get in touch with us.
We had previously said that there will be 6 playerspromoted from Div 3 to Div 2 at the end of the season, and obviously 6 relegated from Div 2 to 3... but if we end up with less than 12 teams in it, then we will make it 50% of the league members get promoted.



Now, regarding the scoring system. We have announced decisions on everything except for the values for Steals, Blocks, and shooting. And now Im going to announce that we are not altering Steals and Blocks from last season's setup, so we only have the values for shooting to sort out now. There were a few suggestions regarding steals and blocks, but most of the feedback was in line with keeping them the same, so we are not changing them.
With the scoring for shooting, there has been a lot of feedback. Before last weeks blog post most of the feedback was to keep it the same, or to change FTmiss to -1 instead of -2; but in the comments since then, almost everyone has been suggesting to keep it all the same as last season, even some of the ones that had previously suggested reducing the penalty for missed free throws, so it seems overwhelming support is for keeping it the same as last season. Before realising that when compiling the feedback, I had planned to use this thread to model a few options and set up a survey/poll around them; but now it seems pointless and a simple poll will be enough.
I have just set up a poll on each league homepage to ask if we should change it or not, and we'll go from there.



I wont go in to as much detail as originally planned, but here is some info to help you make a decision:
If we keep the shooting values the same, these are the %s needed to break even: 2pt = 25%; 3pt = 14.28% (or 1/7); FT = 50%.
And based on last seasons stats, this is the positional composition breakdown of the top 100 players: 30 PGs, 13 SGs, 18 SFs, 21 PFs, 18 Cs



If we changed FTmiss to -1 instead of -2,these are the %s needed to break even: 2pt = 25%; 3pt = 14.28% (or 1/7); FT = 33.3%. and it does not alter the positional composition much at all - well, not totals, but it does shuffle them around a bit.



If we made the penalty for missing FGs harsher (-2 instead of -1), we'd get the following breakevens: 2pt = 40%; 3pt = 25%; FT = 50%.
And positional breakdown of the top 100 is:29 PGs, 10 SGs, 18 SFs, 23 PFs, 20 Cs.



So, as expected, PGs are quite dominant in both setups, but they do not dominate the top 10 in either (as they did in season 1 hehe with 7 of the top 10 players). Making our system harsher on missed FGs clearly benefits the big guys, at the expense of SGs mainly, who are already under-represented in the current system; but it does bring big guys up closer to the PGs, which is ok, and SFs stay pretty much the same.
As it is in our current setup, shooting 2/20 2 pters is the same as getting 6 turnovers. 2/20 from the field is terrible shooting, whereas 6 turnovers in a game is easily done for a lot of players. Making a missed FG -2 instead of -1, means that 2/20 equals 15 turnovers.



Anyway, I know that most people have suggested keeping the shooting values all the same as last season, so this is just a little snapshot and if its voted in that we should change the shooting values, then I'll do more in depth analysis, and of more options too, and we can have a vote on them.
Try to vote as soon as practicable. I would like to close the polls after about 24 hours, but would also like to get more than about 15 votes, so we'll see how we go. And, if you cant vote cause you're not in a league yet (ie, one of the new players), just put your preference in here or PM me.
Cheers.