What if we have separate pots for walleyes and big fish, not nightly but for the year?
Say a team joins multispecies pays their entry to that. Then they have the choice to pay into a Pot (Big Fish and/or Walleyes) some amount, say $30/team for the year. Then while they fish each week with multispecies, we score their fish the same as always, enter it into the database each time, and they could win any multispecies prize along the way and at end of year. This would not add any complications to the end of night and we already score these fish and save them in our computer system.
THEN at the end of year we run a reports to total points, lengths, etc. for those teams in each Pot. We will keep track of who is in each pot on the database and with receipts from a receipt book. And the winner gets the pot(s). If 20 teams join Big Fish, that's $600 bucks AND if 25 teams join the Walleye Pot that is $750 for that pot. No problem...
We can do that easily and it doesn't make much work for us.
You could fish just Big Fish every week and still possibly win multispecies AND the Big Fish and/or Walleye Pot(s). Potentially someone could win Multispecies with mostly big fish, then have the most big fish points and walleye points and win them also. I do think a clean sweep would be tough but possible. Most Multispecies winners are our top Big Fish teams. I could run a report to see what the last few years showed if you are curious?
What do you think?? We could do this easy.
But I am not fishing against the Widowmakers for a muskie pot.. No way, you are just too good. Give me some lessons and I might go for it some day.
Doug
I like that idea as well or better than some seperate leagues on different nights but it would be alot more fun if it would track nightly, and show on the web page. I don,t know how much work that is though. It would make it eaiser for teams to only focus on the species they like and still feel like they are being competitive.
p.s doug would the numbers you quoted change much if the multi-species bonus was considered. For example a rocky is usually 3 pts but I think many times it would add 33pts to somebodys nightly total.
craig
I will answer these in order. First, the points don't change a lot with the multispecies bonuses. Yes they seem to add more opportunities for people to get multispecies bonuses but the surprise is that the ones gaining the most are the lower scoring teams and it gives them more confidence and hope that they can make the jump. Which if they keep fishing, they can. So keeping people fishing and in the game is a good thing and these bonuses do that. As for the top positions, they don't seem to change that that much. Yes one team would have had a hit more than others. But it does not drop them out of the top.
If we run these as optional pots and do not change anything at the launch, I think it will be fine. As for a vote, it was a membership vote that was taken last time, and I do think it would go. As long as no one has to change a thing to fish multispecies. And that is the one thing I am working to keep clear.
Multispecies anglers do not have to change a thing. All this would do is give them the choice of entering into a pot or two for big fish or walleyes. But we do nothing different at the end of night.
As for running totals. I know we can do that, but it will be on separate pages. Depends on how much that will take.
What we can do is have a meeting, and vote on having separate pots and then what they will be. But with the understanding that Mondays are for multispecies and nothing changes for someone fishing multispecies. Anyone wanting in the pot(s) does it at the beginning of year and the winners come out at the end of year. Nothing is different at the landings and nothing changes with the scoring.
Thanks..