Doug, how will the nightly scoring go now what we are one group? It seems logical to score what you catch instead of scoring by increments like last year. Let’s say hypothetically one team does really well one night and everybody else does poor, a team that caught 1 fish could actually be 5 pts behind a team that caught 15. On the other hand, it could be an advantage going with increments to a team that just had an off night; they wouldn’t get set back as far. Let us know thanks.
That's a good question. If we use our system from last year, then we would all score total points per the nightly and then by position towards the end of year. Since we are all in the same place 1st place would get 200; 2nd 195; 3rd 190, ... and showing still be 50. Do we want to go down by 5 or 10 points per position? OR just do total points for the year, like we used to? We really need to have the competition committee make that decision. I am fine either way, so long as we all know what it's going to be.
I think we could use position points, but if we do then what is the difference per position? Let's get this figured out asap.
Thanks..
Scratch the points system and go total pounds, thats the way to go
Having the current points system favors consistency over having a good night on your local water and no so good night on unknown waters.
With the old points system, in theory, I can just show up only on river nights and come in with high points each night and never show up for any inland lakes and still take home first place. With the current system, I could get alot of points, but there will only be a 5 point difference from the next person. But If my team wants to stay near the top I need to be consistent the entire year and slowly make a gap in points from other teams. But since there is only a 5 point difference, my team would have to show up on the inland lakes as well.
I thought this was the problem from past years, and thats why the current point system is in use now, not just because the league went to more teams?
I would do like last year when we fished inland lakes. 10 point seperation. Enough to create some gap, but no so much that a team would be way in the hole. With 10 points you would see the seperation in teams earlier in the year, with 5 points later in the year.
I still like the position points for sure, not sure what difference there really is between 5 or 10 pt steps. If you have finished the same with my team all nights but one, you are only one position ahead, whether it's 5 or 10 pts doesn't matter, it's still just one position. So whichever one you like, they really work the same way.
The history of the position points versus the total points was to find the most consistent and top anglers. Really there were no problems, we just wanted to find out who are the top anglers regardless of the type of water, time of year, weather, predominant fish species, etc. And we have a bunch of great anglers and good sports, and this is just the way we measure up in the scores. Everyone is a winner when they get out fishing.
After talking to the competition committee members is seems the position points will be used and go down by 5 points a position.
Bring on the fishing. Maybe I should say warm up and bring the fish out to bite.. It's been slow so far.