Hattersons NHL League (prem req) - FULL (NEED RESERVES)

by **hatterson** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:07 pm

Quick Hits
Size: 30 participants plus 5 reserves
Total Games: 82 regular season, up to 28 playoff games
Games going on at once: Likely 8-10 during the regular season and 7 during the playoffs
Season and playoff format: Standard NHL
Premium required

General Setup

I want to set up and run an NHL League tournament. To sign up please choose your favorite team (or just a random one if your favorite is already taken) and your "home ice" settings. All games will be Standard, Sequential and Sunny, and your home ice settings will fill in the rest (map, cards and forts)

You will play through an entire NHL season (yes that means 82 games). I will be using the format for the upcoming NHL season meaning you play divisional rivals 6 times each for a total of 24 games, conference opponents 4 times each for a total of 40 games, opposite conference opponents once each for a total of 15 games. That leaves 3 games which will be against random opponents from the opposite conference. You will have 41 home games and 41 away games.

I don't want this to take an entire seasons length (like 8 months) to complete so the games will be done in stages, likely you will be playing between 8 and 10 games at once (hence the premium requirement), I'll try and split these evenly between home and away so that you don't have a big batch where you don't play your map and settings.

To warn ahead, I will be playing in this tournament as a regular member (not as a reserve). If for some reason that is an issue for you, sorry find another tournament.

Scoring

Scoring will be done the same way as in the NHL (2 points for win, 1 point for OT/SO loss, 0 for regulation loss). All end of season tiebreakers and playoff seeding will be done in the exact same way as the NHL. Playoffs will consist of 7 games played simultaneously. You must win 4 of these to advance in to the next round. There are no shootouts in the playoffs.

Overtime and shootouts will go as follows:
- All games which are won in 12 rounds or under are 'in regulation' (this number is adjustable so tell me if you think it's too high or too low). Eliminate your opponent to win.
- All games which go beyond 12 rounds enter overtime. Still standard rule of eliminate your opponent to win applies.
- All games which go beyond 16 rounds enter a shootout. Shootouts are decided on a formula. Currently I have the formula in mind as. Score = (Total Armies/2) + (sqrt(Territories)) + (territories conquered). You'll still want to finish the game obviously (to get CC rank) but in terms of league scoring it will effectively end at the conclusion of round 16.

I will keep track of the standings and keep them updated in this thread. I also may grab a stupid free website and throw some stuff on there for kicks.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask them

East
ATLANTIC
NY Islanders - TheTrueNorth (Scotland, No Cards, Chained)
New Jersey - tiberiusaquila (BeNeLux, No Cards, Unlimited)
NY Rangers - poptartpsycho18 (Canada, No Cards, Chained)
Philadelphia - RedBaron0 (Great Lakes, Flat Rate, Chained)
Pittsburgh - rjp0305 (Tamriel, Flat Rate, Unlimited)

NORTHEAST
Buffalo - Gozo_the_Great (New World, No Cards, Chained)
Toronto - Hatterson (Classic, Flat Rate, Chained)
Boston - geigerm (San Francisco, Escalating cards, Unlimited)
Ottawa - keiths31 (Alexander's Empire, No Cards, Chained)
Montreal - igotaished (Montreal, Flate Rate, Adjacent)

SOUTHEAST
Atlanta - ncardoso (Iberia, Flate Rate, Unlimited)
Carolina - ultraman (San Francisco, Flat Rate, Chained)
Florida - NickJP (Bamboo Jack, No Cards, Chained)
Tampa Bay - Revlisd (Battle For Iraq, No Cards, Chained)
Washington - Serbia (Mongol Empire, Flat Rate, Adjacent)

West
CENTRAL
Detroit - Rhinestone80 (CCU, No Cards, Chained)
Chicago - ubcman64 (Civil War, Escalating, Chained)
Columbus - Wendt100 (BeNeLux, No Cards, Chained)
St. Louis - riskmaster11 (Doodle Earth, Flat Rate, Unlimited)
Nashville - jrhockey21 (Feudal War, Escalating, Unlimited)

NORTHWEST
Edmonton - blindmatt (Classic, No Cards, Chained)
Vancouver - grant.gordon (Doodle Earth, Flat Rate, Chained)
Calgary - kevlove102 (Doodle Earth, No Cards, Unlimited)
Colorado - Sunshiner (British Isles, Flat Rate, Chained)
Minnesota - vykingsfan64 (USA, No Cards, Chained)

PACIFIC
Los Angeles - MostMackinest (North America, Flat Rate, Chained)
Phoenix - knighthawk (BeNeLux, Escalating, Chained)
Anaheim - littlebrother2k7 (Age of Magic, Flat Rate, Chained)
Dallas - ntffl07 (WWII Iwo Jima, Fixed Rate, Chained)
San Jose - Tabsnake (Age of Merchants, Flat Rate, Chained)

RESERVES
- White Moose
- Toxicmickey
- danodukebb
- saetjw

by **keiths31** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:56 pm

Ottawa Senators please

Alexander's Empire
no cards
chained

by **hatterson** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:08 pm

keiths31 wrote:Ottawa Senators please

Home ice settings?

by **RedBaron0** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:10 pm

Philadelphia Flyers

Great Lakes, Flat, Chained

Let's go Flyers! DOOT-DOOT-DODODOOT!

(eh... close enough, I need an organ option here! :lol:

)

by **grant.gordon** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:16 pm

Vancouver please

by **Optimus Prime** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:50 pm

Speaking as someone who has been involved in numerous hockey-based tournaments here, I would recommend that you bump your round number down from 12 to 10 for overtime. That's just me though, 12 will probably work just fine.

Good luck with it, the hockey themed tournaments are always very popular around here for some reason. I wish I had the time to join, but perhaps next time.

Regards, Optimus Prime

by **poptartpsycho18** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:57 pm

I'll take the Rangers please.

Home Settings: Canada, No Cards, Chained

by **rjp0305** on Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:59 pm

I'll play! Sign me up as Pittsburgh. Tamriel, Seq., Flat, Unlimited.

by **blindmatt** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:44 am

in please
Edmonton

classic,seq,no card,chained, no fog

by **ultraman** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:58 am

Carolina Hurricanes

San Fran map, seq. flat, chained, sunny

by **Rhinestone80** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:49 am

red wings
CCU
No cards
Chained

by **Serbia** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:45 am

I wanted the Red Wings!!!!!!!!!

So I guess I'll go with Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. Mongol Empire, Flat Cards, Adjacent.

by **hatterson** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:03 am

grant.gordon wrote:Vancouver please

What home ice settings do you want?

by **hatterson** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:04 am

Optimus Prime wrote:Speaking as someone who has been involved in numerous hockey-based tournaments here, I would recommend that you bump your round number down from 12 to 10 for overtime. That's just me though, 12 will probably work just fine.

Good luck with it, the hockey themed tournaments are always very popular around here for some reason. I wish I had the time to join, but perhaps next time.

Regards, Optimus Prime

I was thinking of 10 as well when I made it. Currently I'm thinking of dropping OT to round 10 and SO to round 15. Does anyone else have any thoughts?

And likely if this goes well I'll look at having future seasons so there should be plenty of room to join in later.

by **hatterson** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:11 am

Also I was thinking of throwing in an all-star game for kicks. My thought is to have the leaders from the divisions play an all-star setup midway through the season. best of 3 triples games, 3 division leaders from the east on one team, 3 from the west on the other team. East team chooses one game settings, West team choose another game settings, and league vote chooses the third game settings.

Anyway this would have no actual bearing on the league and just be for entertainment. Let me know what you think

by **RedBaron0** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:48 pm

All-Star game should be fun, I like it!

It might not be a bad idea to do 9 rounds for regulation(3 times 3 - 3 periods in regulation) and then do another 3 rounds for OT. The shootout is basicly a startover, to win, you need to score more goals in 3 or more chances than your opponent. Basing that fact on how the game has gone up to that point may not be fair.

I'd say you start another game on a small board(say doodle earth) with setting you choose, and the most enemy territories(neutrals shouldn't count) taken in 3 round, wins the shootout. If tied at the ned of 3 rounds you just go on the next round, most territories taken that round wins, it'd be sudden death.

by **hatterson** on Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:27 pm

RedBaron0 wrote:All-Star game should be fun, I like it!

It might not be a bad idea to do 9 rounds for regulation(3 times 3 - 3 periods in regulation) and then do another 3 rounds for OT. The shootout is basicly a startover, to win, you need to score more goals in 3 or more chances than your opponent. Basing that fact on how the game has gone up to that point may not be fair.

I'd say you start another game on a small board(say doodle earth) with setting you choose, and the most enemy territories(neutrals shouldn't count) taken in 3 round, wins the shootout. If tied at the ned of 3 rounds you just go on the next round, most territories taken that round wins, it'd be sudden death.

Hrm, that's a good idea for a shootout. What do others think like a 3 round, most enemy terits taken wins battle?