Great, a couple of enthusiatic yeses. That'll do.

For anyone who thinks it might be a bad idea (frequently having to
play a game you don't like, or people taking it too seriously, or
downgrading our current habit of constantly trying new games) ...
let me reassure you: I aim to get the balance right between playing
these 1,2 or even 3 games often enough to keep the league table live
and changing, but not so often that they get in the way of playing
other favourites or trying new games. That's why I only wanted 1 or
preferably 2 games where we keep track. Maybe 3. And they are
all "slow-burn", ie we just cumulate scores when and if we play any
of them; they don't take over.

For example, in the case of Team RoboRally, you'll hardly notice that
the league table exists - it'd just be me recording who was on the
winning side and cumulating it for fun.

I've had some thoughts on a scoring system and league-position system
for Perikles. I'll make that a separate post.

Bob







--- In lbgc@..., "Founder." <bobroscow@...> wrote:
>
> I've been on the look-out for a game that we could elevate into a
> game that we at LBGC play fairly often and can have a league and
> ratings on.
>
> It would be an extra bit of cement, ongoing, and could raise the
> importance of this site for our members, as the place where the
> league-table sits.
>
> I've deliberately avoided any kind of "overall" league-table across
> all games we play. People come and go, leaving London etc. And
the
> games are so various, some with more skill and some with more
luck.
> And your approach to each game varies - try hard or just play for
> fun and excitement.
>
> So, I STILL don't want us to create a table or record across
various
> games.
>
> But doing so on just one or two games could be fun, valid, and
> interesting.
>
> I was looking out for one. Perikles has come along, which the 6 of
> us who have played it seem to like a lot. I suspect we will play
it
> fairly often ...
>
> So, let's start a league-table, ongoing, just for Perikles? It
> doesn't matter that we won't play it EVERY session. The ongoing
> league table can be slow-burn, only slowly added to, a long-term
> thing, as a background interest, ongoing, for us just meeting up
and
> playing what's on the table.
>
> My mind is buzzing with formulae for keeping track of it and
working
> out a table that gets updated (here). Gimme 30 mins, and a
separate
> post.
>
> But Perikles need not be the ONLY "league table" ... It would be
nice
> to have several players topping different charts, across a variety
of
> games. But not TOO many; and it had better be a game we will play
> more than once or twice per year ...
>
> OK, I'm about to go away and invent a points system and league
table
> for Perikles. I'll post it when I think I've cracked it.
>
> Meanwhile, should we accompany it with one OTHER game-league-
table?
> So that Perikles is not is not the ONLY one, no special status?
>
> An obvious candidate would be ... er ... Team RoboRally? We play
it
> quite often. It's a fun icebreaker, full of hilarity, not
serious.
> This might be the ideal counterbalance to Perikles, because there
are
> huge slices of luck as to whether you achieve a win, via your team,
> even after you screwed up or got unlucky and were scrapped and out
of
> the game ... It still might be fun to total and report who has won
> (been on the winning team) more often? Just for fun and banter.
>
> Bob
>