Post by BB Warrior on Mar 25, 2014 15:49:39 GMT
With only one outstanding game to be played, which will actually decide the winners of the League Cup this year, I would be very interested to hear the thoughts of other teams on the Format that we have played this season in this competition?
When this was first announced, I would have said that I was pretty sceptical about the format but, having played it, I have really enjoyed the matches we have had with a majority of them have been very close and often won or lost on the result of just one game during the evening. I am sure that I could say on behalf of my team that we have certainly enjoyed the challenge of trying to overcome the handicaps!
Obviously I have not had the luxury of using any "jokers" during the competition myself and it has been interesting to see how other Captains have used these in the matches.... sometimes with good effect, sometimes they have made no difference to the individual games either way and as highlighted by Ric in a post on a different thread perhaps the jokers have had less impact that had been expected?
I am sure that the intention was to equal out all of the teams to make the League Cup more exciting and, with only 6 points separating the top 6 teams before the final series of matches this was certainly proved to be correct.... but often it seemed that the same players were being given the jokers in nearly all of the games and some players were probably actively penalised by having a higher handicap against them than perhaps they would have had based on their own individual record?
Clearly any handicap system is not going to be perfect.... but are there ways that this could be improved or are there other ideas or suggestions that we could look at for next season?
I certainly have my own ideas on what could be tried, but would rather hear the opinions of others first so any feedback would be good, preferably from as many different teams as possible as that will give a better indication to the Lewes Committee Members that I know do look here on the Forum.
So everybody..... what was good about the Format this year? What was bad? How could it be done differently or improved for next year?
When this was first announced, I would have said that I was pretty sceptical about the format but, having played it, I have really enjoyed the matches we have had with a majority of them have been very close and often won or lost on the result of just one game during the evening. I am sure that I could say on behalf of my team that we have certainly enjoyed the challenge of trying to overcome the handicaps!
Obviously I have not had the luxury of using any "jokers" during the competition myself and it has been interesting to see how other Captains have used these in the matches.... sometimes with good effect, sometimes they have made no difference to the individual games either way and as highlighted by Ric in a post on a different thread perhaps the jokers have had less impact that had been expected?
I am sure that the intention was to equal out all of the teams to make the League Cup more exciting and, with only 6 points separating the top 6 teams before the final series of matches this was certainly proved to be correct.... but often it seemed that the same players were being given the jokers in nearly all of the games and some players were probably actively penalised by having a higher handicap against them than perhaps they would have had based on their own individual record?
Clearly any handicap system is not going to be perfect.... but are there ways that this could be improved or are there other ideas or suggestions that we could look at for next season?
I certainly have my own ideas on what could be tried, but would rather hear the opinions of others first so any feedback would be good, preferably from as many different teams as possible as that will give a better indication to the Lewes Committee Members that I know do look here on the Forum.
So everybody..... what was good about the Format this year? What was bad? How could it be done differently or improved for next year?