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Anybody interested in serving on the 2006 Tour Board of Directors, please sign in below and send me your e-mail address in a PT.

We started last year's Tour the first Monday in April, to coincide with baseball's Opening Day. That's probably not a bad idea for this year, too - depending, of course, on the 2006 game being available by then. Here's what I would like to see happen between now and then.

We need to rewrite the rules to try to eliminate as much gray area as possible. I have taken a stab at it. If you sign up to be on the Board of Directors, I'll send you what I have written and you can make your input.

My goal for the Tour, as always (besides winning it, of course), is to try to get as many people as possible to play. I don't want the rules to discourage people from playing, so I believe in keeping them as simple as possible. Here are the recommendations I would make for rules changes for 2006, based on last year's experience and the polls I set up:

[b:9d5803ca85]Change: [/b:9d5803ca85]Drop the bonus round scoring format. It did not achieve what I hoped it would (i.e. encourage more people to play in the bonus rounds to experience the different formats and try to set them up as the toughest events).

[b:9d5803ca85]Change: [/b:9d5803ca85]Change bonus scoring to 10 points for division, 5 points for wild card, 5 points for winning playoff series, 5 points for winning World Series. This puts more emphasis on regular season play.

[b:9d5803ca85]Change: [/b:9d5803ca85]Add the rule that allows you to drop your lowest score, provided you play in at least six events (of respondents to poll, 23-8 voted in favor). I think this would keep people more interested and encourage them to keep playing if they did get a bad score in an early round.

We'll probably need to start a sign-up thread in the next week or two. My goal is to get 100 players this year!

Tee - I'll help if needed. Played on tour this year and loved it. The Auction League did me in. LMK

Jay (Dingo)

I'd help, but with lesser experience than many (have only played since 2003 online) I'd gladly defer if there's any objection or someone else wanted to do it. But I'd rather throw my hat in than have a couple others have to pick up the slack.
Cheers--you did a great job this year
Frank

Change: Change bonus scoring to 10 points for division, 5 points for wild card, 5 points for winning playoff series, 5 points for winning World Series. This puts more emphasis on regular season play.

I certainly do NOT agree with this one. Making all events have the same bonus as the non-* events would be sufficient. The post-season should be more significant than an afterthought

Hey guys, thanks for signing up. I'll e-mail you guys what I'm working on as the revised Tour rules and ask for some input and feedback in a few days.

I would be happy to be of any help for you, teepack. But with living in a different time zone (+6hrs vs. ET, + 9 vs. PT), I don't know if I really could help.

Tee... let me know if there is anything I can help with. Was the commish in most of my Tour leagues this year anyway.

Thought I had replied before on this thread but must not have went through. Will help in any way you need. Just let me know.

Not sure how many folks you need, but you are welcome to ask for my help anytime.

Thanks fellas. I have taken a stab at rewriting the rules to try to clear up some of the issues that have arisen in the past. I will post them on a PT to all of you in the next day or two so you can look at them and give me some feedback as to what may need more clarification, etc.

I'd like to get a sign-up thread going by the end of next week, so it'd be nice to have the rules formalized by then as well.