[spidey44]

Do any of you all run a league? Here's what a couple guys that I play with were thinking of doing:

Buying into tournies and having a portion go to escrow. At the end of a season, the winner gets a buy in to a big casino run tourney (wsop/USPC/etc). Does anyone have a good points system for a league? Thoughts on setting this up? Do anything similar?

Any insight would be great!

Thanks!

[KYBill]

I run a league and we average about 27 each game. $25.00 buy in with $5 going towards a TOC game at the end of the season. We play 10 events and you keep your best 6 scores , 8 highest players + 2 from a play in game go at it for the TOC money.

Im in the process of getting 10 man tables so we can expand to 30 players each night for this next season.

We started about 3 years ago having problems filling a 8 man table. Now we have a waiting list for each event.

[Wedge Rock]

I do the same... 17 players in the cold months (2 tables) and 25 in the warm months (3 tables).

$50 each month goes to the TOC pot. WInner of each of the eight events and the top two point getters all get an invite to the $400 freeroll TOC.

I use Dr. Neau's formula to calculate tournament points.

Click on my icon below and then click the Championship button for a fuller explanation as well as the formula.

[spidey44]

Thanks guys... KYBill...what is your points system? First is 25 (if you have 25 guys?)?

[KYBill]

Originally Posted by spidey44

Thanks guys... KYBill...what is your points system? First is 25 (if you have 25 guys?)?

We give out points based on the aveage of your finish .... ie in a 10 man game first would get 100% and second 90% ect... so a second place finsh in a 30 person tourney would get you more points than in a 10 player tourney.

I have an excel spread sheet that lists the #''s for tournements for 1-30 people.

Ill see if i cant upload it somewhere for downloading.

[ahopen78]

We run a 10 man league.
Ln(10/position) for pts.
6 week season.
Drop your lowest score (which you can use if you miss a game).

for the weekly game the buy-in is $15+$25, $25 into escrow. $15 for payouts.
1st: $100
2nd: $50
Escrow: $250

at the end of 6 weeks we have $1500 and we send the top 4-5 players to $200-$400 buy-in events.

if you cash in the event you keep 55% and each other member gets 5%.

[spidey44]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

[DaiTauHa]

Wedge,

What software (if any) do you use to run your tournaments?

Originally Posted by Wedge Rock

I do the same... 17 players in the cold months (2 tables) and 25 in the warm months (3 tables).

$50 each month goes to the TOC pot. WInner of each of the eight events and the top two point getters all get an invite to the $400 freeroll TOC.

I use Dr. Neau's formula to calculate tournament points.

Click on my icon below and then click the Championship button for a fuller explanation as well as the formula.

[Wedge Rock]

I run in by hand...

I simply use a sheet of paper to keep track of who is in. It also tracks buyins and rebuys. When you bust out, you have to tell me who busted you out. At the end of the night, I can calculate knockouts.

I put the information into Excel and it kicks out the tournament points.

I used to use Dr. Neau's software. I probably still would, except that I changed jobs and had to return my laptop. But running the last one by hand was a bit liberating... I wasn't constantly tied to the laptop. And I could keep track of everything I needed to on a single sheet of paper. It was a reall pain in the arse if you input something incorrectly into the software but didn't notice it right away... When you found it later, you basically have to stop everything, trace the error, correct it, then confirm everything after that is correct. Much simpler to just do it on paper. I don't have any problem running a 3-table tourney on paper. There has to be a limit to the manageability without software, but its somewhere beyond 3 tables...

If you need samples or any help putting something togehter, let me know.

[mtvernonbryan]

I run a Tournament Series too. One tournament a month. I have between 18-30 players.$25+$5 ($4 to the end of the year tournament of champions, $1 towards the monthly bracelet) Top six people in points Play in tournament of champions for a $500 buy in WSOP circuit event plus hotel/airfair. I made up my own point system. It is as follows:
Points increase by increments of 2 until you reach six place (last six in tournament represent final table) The points then double and go up in increments of 10 until first place, then increment of 20. Example tournament below:

1--132
2--112
3--102
4---92
5---82
6---72
7---36
8---34
9---32
10--30
11--28
12--26
13--24
14--22
15--20
16--18
17--16
18--14
19--12
20--10
21---8
22---6
23---4
24---2