FW: league information from Ron Shepard

[Brian R. Toonen]

Enclosed below is some additional information about the ANL pool league.  I
need to know whether or not each of you will be continuing to play during
this session so I can round up replacements.  I know we need at least one
person since we lost Brett.

I'm still waiting to hear from Chuck Batson with regards to our making up
the matches we missed last week.

--brian


-----Original Message-----
From: Shepard, Ron L. [mailto:Shepard at anchim.chm.anl.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 18:17

> One more question: are we starting anew or is this a continuation of 
> the session from the Fall?  I ask because we lost one player (a
> student) and possibly one or two others due to scheduling conflicts.
> I would like to replace them if that is allowed.

Some things are carried over between sessions, and other things are 
started afresh.

25% (I think that is the right number) of the prize money from last 
session is carried over to the spring session.  That prize money will 
be added to a 3-week playoff tournament at the end of this spring 
session.  The seeding of the teams in the tournament will be based on 
the win/loss totals from both the fall and the spring sessions.  Also, 
all of the skill ratings stuff is carried over from the fall session to 
the spring session.

However, I think those are all of the connections between the two 
sessions.  Teams can add, remove, or trade players at this time.  
Unplayed matches can be made up for the next four weeks (just like they 
could the first four weeks of the fall session).  All of the players on 
your team will need to fork up another $5 session fee for the spring 
session.  In the past we have even added whole new teams for the spring 
session (although I don't think that is going to happen this time, we 
had some advance warning when we did it before).

I'm glad you guys are going to play again this session.

Regards, -Ron