Results for the League event on December 22, 2017
| Pos | Player | Rank | Rating | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Plourde | 398 | 1552.42 | 10.76 |
| 2 | Zachary Frey | 382 | 1593.98 | 5.54 |
| 3 | Eric Russell CNY | 247 | 1642.35 | 3.45 |
| 4 | Bruce Nightingale | 324 | 1550.28 | 2.23 |
| 5 | Andy Cushman | 1233 | 1542.89 | 1.49 |
| 6 | Tom Markle | 2513 | 1475.53 | 1.05 |
| 7 | Tim Mundstock | 5737 | 1443.14 | 0.80 |
| 8 | David Cohen US | 1513 | 1455.85 | 0.65 |
| 9 | Carl Lutz | 4645 | 1411.36 | 0.57 |
| 9 | Mike Smith CNY | 3705 | 1318.04 | 0.57 |
| 12 | Pete Indick | 2131 | 1487.15 | 0.38 |
| 12 | Jess Lacelle | 6182 | 1311.23 | 0.38 |
| 12 | Joel Byrnes | 2699 | 1364.82 | 0.38 |
| 14 | Tim Cady | 16630 | 1000.58 | 0.25 |
| 15 | Ben Hofmann | 10527 | 1237.75 | 0.19 |
| 16 | Orion Smith | 5922 | 1260.78 | 0.13 |
| 17 | Melissa Cohen | 6941 | 1144.82 | 0.06 |
Location
Format Details
| Event Name : | League |
| Qualifying Format : | |
| Finals Format : | Unknown |
| Player Limit : | Unknown |
| Unlimited Qualifying? : | No |
Tournament Overview
Start Date: September 09, 2017
End Date: December 22, 2017
This league was created to promote pinball and the social aspects of the hobby in the CNY area. All hosts should create a welcoming environment for people new to pinball, as well as people who have been around the hobby for quite some time. All guests should be courteous to the hosts for the night, and show respect toward their pinball machines and homes. ABUSIVE LANGUAGE AND ACTIONS TOWARDS OTHERS AND PINBALL MACHINES WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. League rules were compiled from the minds of the CNY Pinball Board members Mike Smith, Eric Russell, Jason Plourde, and Dave Cohen, as well as some borrowing and tweaking from how the great folks downstate at the Orange County Pinball Club (OCPC) and the Rock Fantasy Pinball League (Middletown, NY) run their leagues. Thanks guys. Now down to the brass tacks.
League Night Season 6 Format
1. FRIDAY evenings, once a month for 5 months, July - November, with Finals in December (see Finals section). Tentative dates are 7/21, 8/25, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, and 12/15.
2. $5 per person, per night. No other fees are needed to attend.
3. Would like some form of contact for persons attending, to make aware of more pinball events happening in the area. A follow on the CNY Facebook or Email is preferable.
4. Start times are flexible. MUST have AT LEAST 1 hour of open practice, starting anywhere from 5pm to 7pm. MUST start League Night between 6pm and 8pm
5. Hosts need not have their address made public, but has to make their residence open to people willing to join and be courteous guests. We will put out a message on the Facebook page, or a “newsletter” type email, asking people interested to PM a Board Member (Eric Russell, Mike Smith, Jason Plourde, or Dave Cohen) or the host.
6. Host must have a minimum of 5 working games to be considered as a host for League Night (4 games for league, and 1 game for practice). If problems are to arise, and if less than 5 games are available, we will treat the situation on a case by case basis, taking into account the inconvenience of event location changes.
7. Minimum of 4 games per meet will count, and a max of 6 games per meet. The status quo of 6 games per meet is encouraged.
8. High Score Standings for each league night. Log score and compare to other scores. However many people you beat is your score for that machine, plus 1. Add up the total scores on all the machines for the night. EXAMPLE I get 2nd place on a game, with 4 people playing, I score a 3. If I got 2nd place on a game, with 10 people playing, I score a 9. Add up the total of each League Night game, and then you have your score. Compare to others for the final placement.
9. SCORING OPTIONS. “ATTEMPTS” RULES ARE AT THE DISCRESION OF THE HOST FOR THAT SPECIFIC LEAGUE NIGHT, AS WELL AS THE CNY PINBALL BOARD MEMBERS
a. Each player will get 2 attempts on each machine, and the better of the 2 scores are recorded. Player can choose to either play both games in a row on each machine, or cycle through with the rest of the competitors.
b. On some pre-DMD era games, 3 ball play can go quite quickly. Host can choose to give players more attempts on older games as compared to the newer games, but the 2 attempts rule is encouraged.
c. If host only has 3 working machines, multiple games will count on a machine of their choosing, until the minimum of 4 is reached.
10. Season Standings
a. Every League night, no matter the amount of participants, season standings scoring will be based on the same set of numbers. 1st – 100 points 2nd – 95 points 3rd – 92 points 4th – 90 points 5th – 89 points 6th – 88 points 7th – 87 points 8th – 86 points…. decreasing by 1 point for each place down to last place. 21 players is the current League record for a meet, so if you finished 21st on a 21 person night, you would score a 73.
b. If there is a tie among players, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the money spots (see Payouts), each player will split the points. For example…
i. If two players are tied for first, the money and the points will be split. Since 1st is 100 points and 2nd is 95 points, both players would receive 97.5 points for the evening.
ii. If two players are tied for 7th place, not in the money, no tie breaker game would be played. 7th is 87 points and 8th is 86 points, each player would receive 86.5 points.
c. ABSENCE POLICY – The first League Night a member is absent for during the regular season will not harm their position in the standings, that is the goal of the absence policy. Starting in season 5 each player’s lowest league night result will be dropped, and only the best 4 out of 5 scores will count towards league standings. For example…
i. If a player misses one meet they will have a score of 0 for that night, which will be their lowest score and will be dropped. So their position in the league standings will not be affected.
ii. If a player misses more than one meet they will have a score of ZERO for each of those nights. The first 0 will be their drop score but the other zeros will be counted towards the league standings.
d. IFPA MINIMUM PARTICIPATION POLICY – Only players who play in at least 50% of qualifying games used towards the final league standings will be included in the league results.
i. Since the best 4 of the 5 league night results will count for each player’s standings, only players who participate in at least 2 league nights (and play all of the league games available on those 2 nights) will be included in the final league standings.
ii. Players who did not meet the minimum participation requirement will be dropped from the league standings and will not be eligible to play in the B division finals.
11. If a machine goes down during league night, the CNY Board members will decide course of action. If everyone has had at least 1 attempt on a machine, then those scores will stand. Any and all efforts will be made to repair machine on site, but sometimes it is not a quick fix, or not feasible to expect a fix on the spot.
12. Guests are invited to bring snacks or drinks, but not required. Hosts are also not required to provide anything besides a welcoming environment for the players, and “free tap water” – Mike Smith
13. League players are requested to not play league games after they are finished playing their games that count, at least until the majority of players have completed their games and it is clear who is left playing. This is because other players may not know that the person playing is done with their league games and may have to unnecessarily wait for the machine.
14. People not wishing to compete are invited to attend as a guest of a competitor. They will not, however, be allowed to use tournament machines during official League play. All machines will be available as league play slows down, and will be open to interpretation on a case by case basis.
15. Payouts will be based on attendance, as follows.
a. 3-7 people- 1st place = 50% 2nd place = 40% 3rd place = 10%.
b. 8-12 people- 1st place = 40% 2nd place = 30% 3rd place =20% 4th place = 10%
c. 13-16 people- 1st place = 30% 2nd place = 25% 3rd place =15% 4th place =15% 5th place =10%
RANDOM.ORG Winner = 5%
d. 17+ people- 1st place = 25% 2nd place = 22% 3rd place =18% 4th place =15% 5th place =10% 6th place = 5% RANDOM.ORG Winner =5%
i. There will be no tie breakers used for payouts. Players tied for payout positions will evenly split the total amount paid out for those positions between the tied players.
Payout Percentages Chart
Players 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Random
3-7 50% 40% 10% - - - -
8-12 40% 30% 20% 10% - - -
13-16 30% 25% 15% 15% 10% - 5%
17+ 25% 22% 18% 15% 10% 5% 5%
16. League Fund Policy
a. The term “League Fund” can also be used for any “CNY Pinball” fundraising events, as well as the League Nights mentioned in this document.
b. A League Fund will be created to raise money for numerous local pinball causes, as well as auditing and transparency purposes.
c. Jason Plourde has volunteered to be the League Treasurer, and will be keeping track of all monies taken in and spent throughout the season.
d. Money will be spent on items such as trophies, magnets, stickers, raffle tickets, promotional materials, and any party favors purchased for League Nights, including the Finals in December.
e. Speaking of raffle tickets, 50/50 raffle! 50/50 raffles will now be run at most league nights.
i. Full details of pricing for raffle tickets will be forthcoming, but the most common method will be $2 per ticket, $5 for 3 tickets, or $10 for 10 tickets
ii. A person who has not purchased a ticket will be asked to volunteer to pick the winning ticket out of the bowl/hat/whatever.
iii. 50% of the full amount of tickets purchased will go to the “League Fund” and the other 50% will go to the winner of the drawing.
Finals (6th League Night)
17. TBA (Tentatively targeted for Friday, December 15th but subject to change based on host availability)
18. Evening will be split into 2 groups. Top 6 Finals in one group for “A” Division, and the next 12 players (positions 7-18 in the standings) in the other group for “B” Division.
19. Top 6 Final
a. Only to include the 6 highest ranked players in attendance. Every effort will be made in the weeks leading to Finals to make sure we have a set field of 6 players.
b. The first tiebreaker in standings will be number of League Night 1st places in the season. If any players ranked 1-6 are still tied after that, a 1 game playoff before Final League Night begins will take place. Coin flip will decide who chooses game, and order, for the tiebreaker game.
c. All matchups will be best of 5, head to head match play, and higher seed picks all games. Higher seed also gets choice of order for the first game, and then the loser chooses order thereafter. #1 and #2 seeds will receive byes into Semi-finals. 3rd place will be playing 6th place and 4th place will be playing 5th place in round 1. #1 seed plays lowest place participant remaining. This competition will decide the League’s final standings 1-6.
d. At the end of each knockout-round, the 2 losing players will play a 1 game playoff to decide final placement. Whoever is the higher (better) seeded player decides the game and order. Winner of that game finishes 5th, loser finishes 6th. Same after the semifinals, loser finishes 4th, winner finishes 3rd.
e. $5 normal fee for entry for these top 6 players, $20 to winner, $10 to runner up.
20. “B Division” Final
a) During Finals, a special league night will be occurring, only open to players not competing in the Top 6 Final, and in positions 7-18 in the standings for the B Division Final. Only players who have met the minimum participation requirement (2 meets) for the regular season will be eligible for either finals.
b) B Division finals will be a head to head match play bracket similar to A division, except the matches will be best of 3 games to keep things moving. All other rules from the A Division finals apply, except players choosing games may not wait for machines that are not available or on the 3rd ball of a game in progress.
c) These results will determine the final standings from 7th through 18th place in the standings. Tiebreakers will be based on original qualifying position. No tiebreaker games will be played for B Division.
d) Like a normal league night, the pot will still be $5 per person, and the payout scale will be the same as the regular 8-12 person scale. Those playing in the top 6 Final will not be eligible for this prize.
e) Since the B Division Finals is not a regular season league night it is not eligible to be used as a player’s drop score even if they attended all 5 regular season meets. Any player not participating in the B Division finals will be placed below all of those who did in the final standings, according to qualifying position.
21. Two other awards will be given out at finals at the end of Season 6 in December. The first place finisher in the B Division Finals and the first place finisher in the Women’s Division will each receive a trophy. A Juniors Division (15 years and younger as of 2.24.16) champion may be awarded small trophy depending on participation.
League Night Season 6 Format
1. FRIDAY evenings, once a month for 5 months, July - November, with Finals in December (see Finals section). Tentative dates are 7/21, 8/25, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, and 12/15.
2. $5 per person, per night. No other fees are needed to attend.
3. Would like some form of contact for persons attending, to make aware of more pinball events happening in the area. A follow on the CNY Facebook or Email is preferable.
4. Start times are flexible. MUST have AT LEAST 1 hour of open practice, starting anywhere from 5pm to 7pm. MUST start League Night between 6pm and 8pm
5. Hosts need not have their address made public, but has to make their residence open to people willing to join and be courteous guests. We will put out a message on the Facebook page, or a “newsletter” type email, asking people interested to PM a Board Member (Eric Russell, Mike Smith, Jason Plourde, or Dave Cohen) or the host.
6. Host must have a minimum of 5 working games to be considered as a host for League Night (4 games for league, and 1 game for practice). If problems are to arise, and if less than 5 games are available, we will treat the situation on a case by case basis, taking into account the inconvenience of event location changes.
7. Minimum of 4 games per meet will count, and a max of 6 games per meet. The status quo of 6 games per meet is encouraged.
8. High Score Standings for each league night. Log score and compare to other scores. However many people you beat is your score for that machine, plus 1. Add up the total scores on all the machines for the night. EXAMPLE I get 2nd place on a game, with 4 people playing, I score a 3. If I got 2nd place on a game, with 10 people playing, I score a 9. Add up the total of each League Night game, and then you have your score. Compare to others for the final placement.
9. SCORING OPTIONS. “ATTEMPTS” RULES ARE AT THE DISCRESION OF THE HOST FOR THAT SPECIFIC LEAGUE NIGHT, AS WELL AS THE CNY PINBALL BOARD MEMBERS
a. Each player will get 2 attempts on each machine, and the better of the 2 scores are recorded. Player can choose to either play both games in a row on each machine, or cycle through with the rest of the competitors.
b. On some pre-DMD era games, 3 ball play can go quite quickly. Host can choose to give players more attempts on older games as compared to the newer games, but the 2 attempts rule is encouraged.
c. If host only has 3 working machines, multiple games will count on a machine of their choosing, until the minimum of 4 is reached.
10. Season Standings
a. Every League night, no matter the amount of participants, season standings scoring will be based on the same set of numbers. 1st – 100 points 2nd – 95 points 3rd – 92 points 4th – 90 points 5th – 89 points 6th – 88 points 7th – 87 points 8th – 86 points…. decreasing by 1 point for each place down to last place. 21 players is the current League record for a meet, so if you finished 21st on a 21 person night, you would score a 73.
b. If there is a tie among players, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the money spots (see Payouts), each player will split the points. For example…
i. If two players are tied for first, the money and the points will be split. Since 1st is 100 points and 2nd is 95 points, both players would receive 97.5 points for the evening.
ii. If two players are tied for 7th place, not in the money, no tie breaker game would be played. 7th is 87 points and 8th is 86 points, each player would receive 86.5 points.
c. ABSENCE POLICY – The first League Night a member is absent for during the regular season will not harm their position in the standings, that is the goal of the absence policy. Starting in season 5 each player’s lowest league night result will be dropped, and only the best 4 out of 5 scores will count towards league standings. For example…
i. If a player misses one meet they will have a score of 0 for that night, which will be their lowest score and will be dropped. So their position in the league standings will not be affected.
ii. If a player misses more than one meet they will have a score of ZERO for each of those nights. The first 0 will be their drop score but the other zeros will be counted towards the league standings.
d. IFPA MINIMUM PARTICIPATION POLICY – Only players who play in at least 50% of qualifying games used towards the final league standings will be included in the league results.
i. Since the best 4 of the 5 league night results will count for each player’s standings, only players who participate in at least 2 league nights (and play all of the league games available on those 2 nights) will be included in the final league standings.
ii. Players who did not meet the minimum participation requirement will be dropped from the league standings and will not be eligible to play in the B division finals.
11. If a machine goes down during league night, the CNY Board members will decide course of action. If everyone has had at least 1 attempt on a machine, then those scores will stand. Any and all efforts will be made to repair machine on site, but sometimes it is not a quick fix, or not feasible to expect a fix on the spot.
12. Guests are invited to bring snacks or drinks, but not required. Hosts are also not required to provide anything besides a welcoming environment for the players, and “free tap water” – Mike Smith
13. League players are requested to not play league games after they are finished playing their games that count, at least until the majority of players have completed their games and it is clear who is left playing. This is because other players may not know that the person playing is done with their league games and may have to unnecessarily wait for the machine.
14. People not wishing to compete are invited to attend as a guest of a competitor. They will not, however, be allowed to use tournament machines during official League play. All machines will be available as league play slows down, and will be open to interpretation on a case by case basis.
15. Payouts will be based on attendance, as follows.
a. 3-7 people- 1st place = 50% 2nd place = 40% 3rd place = 10%.
b. 8-12 people- 1st place = 40% 2nd place = 30% 3rd place =20% 4th place = 10%
c. 13-16 people- 1st place = 30% 2nd place = 25% 3rd place =15% 4th place =15% 5th place =10%
RANDOM.ORG Winner = 5%
d. 17+ people- 1st place = 25% 2nd place = 22% 3rd place =18% 4th place =15% 5th place =10% 6th place = 5% RANDOM.ORG Winner =5%
i. There will be no tie breakers used for payouts. Players tied for payout positions will evenly split the total amount paid out for those positions between the tied players.
Payout Percentages Chart
Players 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Random
3-7 50% 40% 10% - - - -
8-12 40% 30% 20% 10% - - -
13-16 30% 25% 15% 15% 10% - 5%
17+ 25% 22% 18% 15% 10% 5% 5%
16. League Fund Policy
a. The term “League Fund” can also be used for any “CNY Pinball” fundraising events, as well as the League Nights mentioned in this document.
b. A League Fund will be created to raise money for numerous local pinball causes, as well as auditing and transparency purposes.
c. Jason Plourde has volunteered to be the League Treasurer, and will be keeping track of all monies taken in and spent throughout the season.
d. Money will be spent on items such as trophies, magnets, stickers, raffle tickets, promotional materials, and any party favors purchased for League Nights, including the Finals in December.
e. Speaking of raffle tickets, 50/50 raffle! 50/50 raffles will now be run at most league nights.
i. Full details of pricing for raffle tickets will be forthcoming, but the most common method will be $2 per ticket, $5 for 3 tickets, or $10 for 10 tickets
ii. A person who has not purchased a ticket will be asked to volunteer to pick the winning ticket out of the bowl/hat/whatever.
iii. 50% of the full amount of tickets purchased will go to the “League Fund” and the other 50% will go to the winner of the drawing.
Finals (6th League Night)
17. TBA (Tentatively targeted for Friday, December 15th but subject to change based on host availability)
18. Evening will be split into 2 groups. Top 6 Finals in one group for “A” Division, and the next 12 players (positions 7-18 in the standings) in the other group for “B” Division.
19. Top 6 Final
a. Only to include the 6 highest ranked players in attendance. Every effort will be made in the weeks leading to Finals to make sure we have a set field of 6 players.
b. The first tiebreaker in standings will be number of League Night 1st places in the season. If any players ranked 1-6 are still tied after that, a 1 game playoff before Final League Night begins will take place. Coin flip will decide who chooses game, and order, for the tiebreaker game.
c. All matchups will be best of 5, head to head match play, and higher seed picks all games. Higher seed also gets choice of order for the first game, and then the loser chooses order thereafter. #1 and #2 seeds will receive byes into Semi-finals. 3rd place will be playing 6th place and 4th place will be playing 5th place in round 1. #1 seed plays lowest place participant remaining. This competition will decide the League’s final standings 1-6.
d. At the end of each knockout-round, the 2 losing players will play a 1 game playoff to decide final placement. Whoever is the higher (better) seeded player decides the game and order. Winner of that game finishes 5th, loser finishes 6th. Same after the semifinals, loser finishes 4th, winner finishes 3rd.
e. $5 normal fee for entry for these top 6 players, $20 to winner, $10 to runner up.
20. “B Division” Final
a) During Finals, a special league night will be occurring, only open to players not competing in the Top 6 Final, and in positions 7-18 in the standings for the B Division Final. Only players who have met the minimum participation requirement (2 meets) for the regular season will be eligible for either finals.
b) B Division finals will be a head to head match play bracket similar to A division, except the matches will be best of 3 games to keep things moving. All other rules from the A Division finals apply, except players choosing games may not wait for machines that are not available or on the 3rd ball of a game in progress.
c) These results will determine the final standings from 7th through 18th place in the standings. Tiebreakers will be based on original qualifying position. No tiebreaker games will be played for B Division.
d) Like a normal league night, the pot will still be $5 per person, and the payout scale will be the same as the regular 8-12 person scale. Those playing in the top 6 Final will not be eligible for this prize.
e) Since the B Division Finals is not a regular season league night it is not eligible to be used as a player’s drop score even if they attended all 5 regular season meets. Any player not participating in the B Division finals will be placed below all of those who did in the final standings, according to qualifying position.
21. Two other awards will be given out at finals at the end of Season 6 in December. The first place finisher in the B Division Finals and the first place finisher in the Women’s Division will each receive a trophy. A Juniors Division (15 years and younger as of 2.24.16) champion may be awarded small trophy depending on participation.
Other events related to this Tournament
| Event | Date | Ranking System | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| League | December 20, 2019 | MAIN | Eric Russell CNY |
| League | December 14, 2018 | MAIN | Zachary Frey |
| League | June 15, 2018 | MAIN | Eric Russell CNY |
| League | June 30, 2017 | MAIN | Andy Cushman |
| League | December 30, 2016 | MAIN | Eric Russell CNY |
| League | July 02, 2016 | MAIN | Bruce Nightingale |
| League | December 19, 2015 | MAIN | Jason Plourde |
| League | July 24, 2015 | MAIN | Bruce Nightingale |