I believe that by Moose oversubscribing leagues he mitigated the problem of having the inevitable 1 or 2 stragglers. Then you fill last 1 or two leagues with stragglers/fillers. You might ask him how he wound up doing it. I didnt notice a lot of hiccups with it.
freeman wrote:I believe that by Moose oversubscribing leagues he mitigated the problem of having the inevitable 1 or 2 stragglers. Then you fill last 1 or two leagues with stragglers/fillers. You might ask him how he wound up doing it. I didnt notice a lot of hiccups with it.
I ask for a randomizing of all active players (in my case a random run of 1 to x) and then I match up the alphabetical list of players to the randomized list. Then I take the first 14 and INVITE to League 1 - next 14 to league 2 - and down the line.
And freeman has speculated correctly that it does seem to get leagues filled faster. But I also think I am spending more time than other Commish's by keeping a tight watch on the leagues filling so when a league does fill, I am quick on the draw to find other places to INVITE the two that didn't get in. Of course I am also sending NAG emails to them to let them know they were moved and the new league. The stragglers seem to be the same people most of the time.
Hope this helps Mr. BBW or whoever is taking over this year. I like to peek in on the Players forum and the Mystery Tour forums to see what other people are doing and thinking.