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Dan · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 11:37 pm Post subject: 2003 Summer Season

I haven't looked it over in detail yet, but here's the announcment of next summer's meets, which should form the basis of our Fantasy T&F schedule:

Conway · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:27 pm Post subject:

So, are we looking at all 36 competitions forming the basis of our league next season ????
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Dan · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 7:14 pm Post subject:

Ack!!

No, I don't think I could muster that sort of a schedule... I just meant that the above gives us an outline of what to choose from. Anyone know when the actual GL events get announced?

Dan

Distance_Guru · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:16 am Post subject:

Will you also consider the WC's in the scoring of next years fantasy league?
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Dan · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:39 pm Post subject:

Most likely yes. All the events will be contested and most all of the big names, so I don't see any reason at this time not to.

By the way, congrats on breaking 1,000!! Smile

Dan

Conway · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 8:59 am Post subject:

Should the WC get some kind of bonus points ??? After all it will be THE event of the year ... And when will be be deciding on which events to contest and how many do you see being contested ???
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Dan · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:36 pm Post subject:

It would sort of make sense to count it as more points, but I'll have to think about how to do that within the confines of the automated scoring system. And I've got too many things on my mind right now to do anything resembling real thinking...

I'm leaning toward a similar number of events as last year, but basing them on the selected GL events to avoid mishaps like the men's long jump (never contested) last year. Seems to me the GL event schedule was announced pretty late last year?

Dan

Conway · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 3:30 pm Post subject:

Distance_Guru · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:09 pm Post subject:

One way of preping for the league could be by announcing some of the fantasy league events early and then finishing it when the GL events are announced. For example I would imagine it's a given that the 100 and probably the 1500/mile, 400 and probably the 3000/5000 wil be golden league events next year. So you could begin by listing those events and then anouncing the final events when the GL makes it's announcement. Of coarse now that I think about it, it would probably just be simpliest to wait for the GL to make their announcement and then use those events. Now I remeber why I leave the thinking on these sort of things to you. Confused

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Dan · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:49 pm Post subject:

That would work fairly well for the main events, but I'm not really sure what it would accomplish... If anyone needs that extra month to shop and prep their roster, well, they need to get outside more. Laughing

For each chosen event, I need to import all the IAAF athlete ranking info and convert it to the pricing system, plus make sure we have a good Purdy scoring tool, so I'd rather not go through that process for events we end up not using...

Dan

Conway · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 12:00 pm Post subject:

Is it about time to start a more serious discusssion of what we want to target for the next season ???
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Dan · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 1:15 pm Post subject:

Fire away! Smile

Dan

Micah Ward · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:31 pm Post subject:

Is there an easy way to set it up so that we can get points for an athlete no matter what event they run? For example, if I take Marla Runyan I could get points whether she was running the 1500 or 3000 or 5000. Take Marion and get points if she is in the 100 or 200.

I think once before you said it would be very difficult. So if it is then disregard.
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Dan · Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:44 pm Post subject:

There may well be a way to do it easily, but it hasn't yet dawned on my feeble little brain. To keep the athlete selection/scoring system automated, it means somehow creating a purchase price for each athlete that reflects their worth across all contested events. That means more work for pulling in the IAAF ranking data, but assuming consistent spelling of names from one event list to the next, I may be able to come up with some way to sort and compile it all (still leaves the step of how to actually combine event "prices" meaningfully). Then I'd have to think what that does to the event scoring process for each meet...

Dan

Conway · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:29 am Post subject:

As much as it hurt me last year, I'd almost say don't do it ... I think we need to pick events that are likely to be contested and stick with those ... Taking Marion for example, she only ran 3 200s all season as the 100 was the focus event ... I think we just need ot do a better job of event selection ... Last year we had a lot of "hollow" events ...

I would think the first question on the table is what events do we want to use ??
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