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Hi everyone, thanks again for joining the annual Mystery Card Players Tournament! Here are some of the key activities taking place over the next few days as we get started with the tournament:
1.At (or shortly after) 7:30 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th) jaywalker72 and I will use a randomizer website to generate a random order for all tournament participants. This will be used to assign participants to the 60’s leagues, for example, numbers 1-12 will form League 1, numbers 13-24 will form League 2, and so on. I will post this random list (with a timestamp for transparency) to the discussion forum right after it runs. Within 15 minutes (say by 7:45 PM ET on Sunday night), I will re-post the random list with the participants clearly broken into leagues, with ONE closer assigned to each league. You will need this final post to know exactly which league you are in, because there could be some decisions I make based on the numbers. For example, if we are 6 participants away from a number divisible by 12, I may assign only 10 teams to League 11, League 12 and League 13 so that we are spreading the “filler” teams across multiple leagues a little. People who signup for the tournament between this division assignment and the midnight deadline will still be guaranteed a spot in the tournament.
2.By 8:00 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th), I will create all the 60's leagues and send out all of the invitations to the leagues based on the league assignments. This invitation is using the built in functionality provided by Strat Baseball 365. These invites get sent to the email address that Strat Baseball 365 has in their database for you. Do not create your own league - it will be deleted if you do. Wait for me to create it and invite you.
3.By 8:30 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th), I will create a Discussion Forum thread for the 60’s Leagues, where owners can post league specific messages. There will only be one of these threads for ALL of the leagues. This thread is where the league invitation codes for all leagues will be shared. For this we are using a bit of an honour system in that we are sharing the codes "publicly". If you are not part of the tournament do not join a league. If you are part of the tournament make sure you join the correct league. If anyone joins the wrong league they will be removed from the league they joined incorrectly. I ask that each participant posts a message on this league forum to indicate when they will join the league IF they cannot join their assigned league within the first 24 hours. It’s important that you do this check in so that the closers and I know you are going to be joining before the deadline. Otherwise, we might start looking to replace you if we think you aren’t joining.
4.At 11:59 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th) we will close the signups and not accept any more entries. I will however open up a thread at that time for a "waiting list" for any late entries - we will try to accommodate them as best we can, depending on the numbers, especially if we are trying to fill our last league to get to a number divisible by 12 (this looks likely at this point). I will also start building a list of "fillers" in case we don't end up with a number of participants that is a divisible of 12.
5. By 11:00 PM ET on Tuesday night (January 16th), I will email all of the participants who have provided their email address to me if they have not yet joined their assigned 60's league. I will also send you a private message on the Discussion Forum site with the invite code for your assigned league if you have not yet joined your league at this point. Please note this step does not happen until 48 hours after league assignment as I am expecting most people to join from the invitation they received or by self-serving and finding and joining their assigned league by checking the Discussion Forum.
7.From Monday January 15th to end of day Sunday January 21st, all participants must join their assigned 60’s league and set themselves as "Ready for Draft". Closers can join but must NOT set themselves as "Ready for Draft" until all of the correct 12 teams have joined their league. Once all 12 correct teams are in the league and everyone is set as "Ready for Draft" the leagues can draft at any time. If leagues fill and draft quickly, it just means there will be a longer post-waivers pre-season period for those teams than the other leagues because ALL 60's leagues will have an opening day of Monday January 29th.
8.On Monday January 29th, this process starts all over again as the opening day of the 70’s is just 2 weeks later on Monday February 12th. Just so you know, the league assignments for the 60’s have no bearing on the league assignments for the 70’s. The list is randomly generated again, so you are playing with a whole new group of people each decade, but there obviously is still the possibility one or two owners get randomly assigned to both your leagues.
Reminder that you can find the tournament web page (with standings, etc) here:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/tournament/50
If you have any questions at all, please let me know.
Juiced JC
1.At (or shortly after) 7:30 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th) jaywalker72 and I will use a randomizer website to generate a random order for all tournament participants. This will be used to assign participants to the 60’s leagues, for example, numbers 1-12 will form League 1, numbers 13-24 will form League 2, and so on. I will post this random list (with a timestamp for transparency) to the discussion forum right after it runs. Within 15 minutes (say by 7:45 PM ET on Sunday night), I will re-post the random list with the participants clearly broken into leagues, with ONE closer assigned to each league. You will need this final post to know exactly which league you are in, because there could be some decisions I make based on the numbers. For example, if we are 6 participants away from a number divisible by 12, I may assign only 10 teams to League 11, League 12 and League 13 so that we are spreading the “filler” teams across multiple leagues a little. People who signup for the tournament between this division assignment and the midnight deadline will still be guaranteed a spot in the tournament.
2.By 8:00 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th), I will create all the 60's leagues and send out all of the invitations to the leagues based on the league assignments. This invitation is using the built in functionality provided by Strat Baseball 365. These invites get sent to the email address that Strat Baseball 365 has in their database for you. Do not create your own league - it will be deleted if you do. Wait for me to create it and invite you.
3.By 8:30 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th), I will create a Discussion Forum thread for the 60’s Leagues, where owners can post league specific messages. There will only be one of these threads for ALL of the leagues. This thread is where the league invitation codes for all leagues will be shared. For this we are using a bit of an honour system in that we are sharing the codes "publicly". If you are not part of the tournament do not join a league. If you are part of the tournament make sure you join the correct league. If anyone joins the wrong league they will be removed from the league they joined incorrectly. I ask that each participant posts a message on this league forum to indicate when they will join the league IF they cannot join their assigned league within the first 24 hours. It’s important that you do this check in so that the closers and I know you are going to be joining before the deadline. Otherwise, we might start looking to replace you if we think you aren’t joining.
4.At 11:59 PM ET on Sunday night (January 14th) we will close the signups and not accept any more entries. I will however open up a thread at that time for a "waiting list" for any late entries - we will try to accommodate them as best we can, depending on the numbers, especially if we are trying to fill our last league to get to a number divisible by 12 (this looks likely at this point). I will also start building a list of "fillers" in case we don't end up with a number of participants that is a divisible of 12.
5. By 11:00 PM ET on Tuesday night (January 16th), I will email all of the participants who have provided their email address to me if they have not yet joined their assigned 60's league. I will also send you a private message on the Discussion Forum site with the invite code for your assigned league if you have not yet joined your league at this point. Please note this step does not happen until 48 hours after league assignment as I am expecting most people to join from the invitation they received or by self-serving and finding and joining their assigned league by checking the Discussion Forum.
7.From Monday January 15th to end of day Sunday January 21st, all participants must join their assigned 60’s league and set themselves as "Ready for Draft". Closers can join but must NOT set themselves as "Ready for Draft" until all of the correct 12 teams have joined their league. Once all 12 correct teams are in the league and everyone is set as "Ready for Draft" the leagues can draft at any time. If leagues fill and draft quickly, it just means there will be a longer post-waivers pre-season period for those teams than the other leagues because ALL 60's leagues will have an opening day of Monday January 29th.
8.On Monday January 29th, this process starts all over again as the opening day of the 70’s is just 2 weeks later on Monday February 12th. Just so you know, the league assignments for the 60’s have no bearing on the league assignments for the 70’s. The list is randomly generated again, so you are playing with a whole new group of people each decade, but there obviously is still the possibility one or two owners get randomly assigned to both your leagues.
Reminder that you can find the tournament web page (with standings, etc) here:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/tournament/50
If you have any questions at all, please let me know.
Juiced JC