In the interest of keeping things moving along, I have tentatively begun to flesh-out possible Information, Rules and Penalties for our league. Please read below and provide your thoughts, ideas and/or comments.
Excellent initiative - all of us are thankful of you contribution, which will help us to discuss and decide things easier.
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For example, the great thing about PU games is they can be scheduled at any time. However, given that the teams participating in this league come from different countries, there may be time differences for Game Shape updates each week. Therefore, a game between two teams should take this into consideration before playing one another.
Each scheduled matchup should be played as early in the week as possible. This will allow enough time for all the results to be passed on and updated for all to see.
Even though in my earlier post I was against playing on Mondays (please do not read why that was my opinion ;P), you certainly have a solid reasoning and strong points here, and as there's bit of work in updating league tables and such, it's better to give this process enough time so that people who will actually do it have enough time to follow it through (as usually something will come up in "real life" that can interfere with our all important hobby;).
In terms of when matches are being played, unless we stick with the plan (play as early) I think it might be good to at least choose a window when we play our weekly game, so that teams couldn't decide to wait until next player shape update to have a BBHG pickup game, if their player shape is lousy that week. And nobody forces us to think that playing week must be from Monday to Sunday (BBs' weeks are not Mon-Sun either like you know!), but it'd be better to arrange it so that the playing window doesn't extend over Fridays' game shape (and training) updates.
It may be better if both teams bbmail their results to the organiser rather than post in the forum. In this way, any teams who were wishing to watch a match already completed, don't accidentally see the results before they have an opportunity to watch it.
At the completion of each matchups, BOTH teams are to pass on the results. This will ensure that at the very least (if only one team remembers to do it) that the results are forwarded, or (if both do it) then confirmation that the results are accurate eventuate.
That's well thought out. For the sake of openness, I might consider it a good idea for organizer to post all weeks game links to a forum at the end of the week though, with (or in a different message with) an updated league table, as game box scores aren't openly available otherwise.
It may prove beneficial to have a set day of the week every week when the PU games will take place. This will remove the possibility of a team issuing a challenge which doesn't provide their opponent enough time to fairly set a lineup. A Monday might be the best day given no games of any kind are scheduled by BB at this time?
IF we consider a week from Monday to Sunday (unlike BB does), then I guess Monday wouldn't be bad as it's kind of an early option and doesn't include any games. On Friday there aren't any other games either though, but then we'd might need to reconsider another definition for a week than Mon-Fri. (Having another match at the same day, because as we know BB players can play 2 matches simultaneously, but I know what you mean and agree with it that if we set a fixed game day it'd be better if there aren't other games regularly scheduled for that day).
Each week, one of the two teams competing in a matchup will have some kind of visual note that means it is their responsibility to issue the PU challenge.
If we do this week by week, good idea. But can't we organize all of season matches before beginning, wouldn't that be best?