Pre-season 9 thread

[id3nt1ty]

I'm thinking either Chaos or Khemri at the moment.

Happy to stick as Commissioner for now, it's not like you have to do a lot once you've figured out the schedule, as long as you lot behave yourself.

[Gandalf]

Nurgle first choice
Norse 2nd choice

No way can I do two Ogre seasons in a row. Now and then it's nice to play with a team who do what you tell them to.

[lawastooshort]

I am interested in Nurgle too.

I am also interested in Skaven, Underworld, and Vampires.

[Raveen]

Chaos Dwarves, Amazons, some other race we haven't covered on the Trollcast yet.

[DaigaroOgami]

Duckz.

Although NJ does have a trump card to play if he fancies doing his Orcs again.

What would I play instead? Hmm. Not really sure. Necro could be fun - Wolves and expendable zombies. Hmm. I would REALLY like to play Chaos Pact; but I can't. Boo.

Khorne? Bloodthirster? Frenzy? Oh I don't know.

To be fair I reckon Red Lion gets dibs on first pick of ANYTHING because every team he wanted to play last season was already taken.

[Gandalf]

To be fair I reckon Red Lion gets dibs on first pick of ANYTHING because every team he wanted to play last season was already taken.

+1 to this!

As long as he picks one in good time, so the rest of us can sort out who we are playing.

[lawastooshort]

I see what you're saying... He should get a reward for picking the objectively best team this season... I agree.

[Red Lion Three]

That's nice of you DO/WG/La.

After their glorious march towards the wooden spoon - the likely decider to be played with Abom tonight - the Underworld may be in need of a bit of a well-deserved rest. If Moose wants to change team, I'd like to bring out the now-possibly-oh-so-aptly-named "Revenge of Last Plaice" Aquatic Undead; Rimmermaid is keen to get his major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign underway.

If Moose wants to keep his Undead team, I'd like to start a new Human team.

[lawastooshort]

Oh yes! Always good to see humans.

[Abomination]

Probably gobbos again. Every dog has its day.

[Gandalf]

Much respect Abom for going with Goblins for a second season! I think it's true of most teams though, that the second season is more enjoyable than the first, as you've got a fair few level-ups to be going on with.

Can I suggest a rules change for next season?

It's to do with tie-breakers in the league where the teams have the same number of points. Currently we do TD difference. What I've seen in some places is that the tie-breaker is TD difference + (0.5 * casualty difference). Casualty rates are roughly half touchdown rates so it seems to make sense to me, the current system does seem to favour high-scoring teams, when some teams simply aren't high-scoring but are hard-hitting.

Obviously we would need to ask the BBDB development team to make a change but I'm sure they can fit that in before next season starts, if we want to go that way.

[DaigaroOgami]

Where is it written in stone that it's TD difference for ties?

The commissioners, past and present, both told Percy it was casualties that decide ties.

[Gandalf]

I think this is an in-character post rather than a serious comment, but in case it's the latter... I'm pretty sure BB Manager worked this way, so I just made BBDB work the same. You can see from the current league table that the three-way tie for 2nd is decided by TD difference currently.

[lawastooshort]

Percy's an eejit.

[DaigaroOgami]

Ho ho ho, G chose to ASSUME, we all know what that makes...

But we haven't actually ever had to decide what decides a tie before have we... So Percy does have a point.

I'd blame to chaps in charge myself.