Bonus team members

[jrenaut]

Team 7 is currently 2 points behind the 12 member team – I think Rule 5 is in effect here.

[jrenaut]

Also I seem to be unable to send a PM to your teammate rumipumi – I’m not ignoring the PM, it just won’t let me send a response.

[Steve O]

Just to scramble things up a bit, I think the final standings should be based on the scores of the last 8 players on each team. That would reward the teams with great teamwork more than the ones with a couple of heroes.

Hmm. Seems like a good pointless prize opportunity. Didn’t someone award the “All Pulling Together” award last year?

[Steve O]

@Steve O 176071 wrote:

Just to scramble things up a bit, I think the final standings should be based on the scores of the last 8 players on each team. That would reward the teams with great teamwork more than the ones with a couple of heroes.

Hmm. Seems like a good pointless prize opportunity. Didn’t someone award the “All Pulling Together” award last year?

Here’s what it looks like if you only count the points from the bottom 8 players on each team:
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[AlanA]

@Steve O 176071 wrote:

Just to scramble things up a bit, I think the final standings should be based on the scores of the last 8 players on each team. That would reward the teams with great teamwork more than the ones with a couple of heroes.

Hmm. Seems like a good pointless prize opportunity. Didn’t someone award the “All Pulling Together” award last year?

Offense intended. But if that were the case, I think the teams should be loaded toward that. As it currently stands, the teams are based upon all members and their past mileage. A team with a few people who do lots of miles are typically paired with people who do less. If you were to use your logic, that team would be at a disadvantage before you even started (unless you are just referring to a pointless prize, then all is ok). But then, why stop at the bottom 8? Why not just pick the bottom 5?? The whole point of the competition is to be an overall team.

[AlanA]

@jrenaut 176066 wrote:

Team 7 is currently 2 points behind the 12 member team – I think Rule 5 is in effect here.

Personally, I don’t really care. I was only pointing out what a team mate had mentioned. I do realize that the prize money for #2 vs. #3 is quite similar, and that the difference won’t change my retirement planning.

And if Rule 5 were in effect, I think other random teams should have 13 and 14 members just to make it more interesting.

[Steve O]

@AlanA 176075 wrote:

Offense intended. But if that were the case, I think the teams should be loaded toward that. As it currently stands, the teams are based upon all members and their past mileage. A team with a few people who do lots of miles are typically paired with people who do less. If you were to use your logic, that team would be at a disadvantage before you even started (unless you are just referring to a pointless prize, then all is ok). But then, why stop at the bottom 8? Why not just pick the bottom 5?? The whole point of the competition is to be an overall team.

Actually, we don’t really have any idea how the teams are derived. It’s a closely hidden secret. This year it is only performing a tad better than random selection.

[jrenaut]

@Steve O 176071 wrote:

Just to scramble things up a bit, I think the final standings should be based on the scores of the last 8 players on each team.

I think the final standings should be based on the Beerneuring leaderboard.

[rumipumi]

@jrenaut 176067 wrote:

Also I seem to be unable to send a PM to your teammate rumipumi – I’m not ignoring the PM, it just won’t let me send a response.

I’m not sure why — but thanks for getting back to us here!

[Subby]

@AlanA 176076 wrote:

Personally, I don’t really care.

Liar.

[AlanA]

@Subby 176100 wrote:

Liar.

Why do you think I would waste my effort to post a lie on a stupid forum? There is certainly no one here that I need to impress with anything. I thought the whole idea was to ride your bike and have fun, and not to attack other people. But then again, it is a public forum, so I guess I shouldn’t expect as much.

[closebr]

I talked to Rod at Thursday coffee at Vigilante and this subject came up, he accidentally allowed an extra team member into the team without realizing, and doesn’t know how to remove the extra member. I’m quite sure there was no malicious intent here. But, then again FS makes us all hyper-competitive and OCD, so… …Time for a Doping Scandal!

[Judd]

@AlanA 176101 wrote:

Why do you think I would waste my effort to post a lie on a stupid forum? There is certainly no one here that I need to impress with anything. I thought the whole idea was to ride your bike and have fun, and not to attack other people. But then again, it is a public forum, so I guess I shouldn’t expect as much.

Stop lying again. You’re trying to impress me.

[Steve O]

@closebr 176116 wrote:

I talked to Rod at Thursday coffee at Vigilante and this subject came up, he accidentally allowed an extra team member into the team without realizing, and doesn’t know how to remove the extra member. I’m quite sure there was no malicious intent here. But, then again FS makes us all hyper-competitive and OCD, so… …Time for a Doping Scandal!

Simpler solution is to just DQ Rod’s team altogether. :p

[Mtansill]

@AlanA 176065 wrote:

Since the competition for the podium spots is getting a bit heated (although #1 seems to have a lock on it), it has been pointed out to me that a certain team in the top four has 12 members. I usually don’t pay a whole of attention to this, but a fellow team mate happened to catch it. Are we all able to get a 12th member?? If so, I’d be more than happy to add someone who’s only ridden 36 days!

Hey Alan-

It’s really like this every year. The volunteers do the best they can to set up a fair game, and the players do the best they can to live with it. Sure, things get tweaked every once in a while, but it generally only occurs when people step up and put a lot of effort into the game NEXT year.

I, for one, am a little dissatisfied that I’m only riding half the distance that I did last year, and couldn’t they seeeee that I wasn’t going to contribute as much this year when they assigned me to a team??? And yet… I’m cool.

Hakuna Matatta.

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