Oh was it lol im on my phone with a cracked screen so don't read it all haha

I actually said to Seb not long ago about teams picked at random or something along those lines but too many people wouldn't go for that especially if they're a good player who ends up with a team full of 'average' players.
To be honest I've got quite attached to my own players and with a couple of new ones I know CoD could be a real challenge for any clan next season, so it's a difficult situ. I hope a solution is arrived at pretty soon though because I kinda wanna get back into it and kick off the new season.

We all do dee, if format is tweaked then i need to get busy with league in excel

How can we know that we will get more players in the league by randomizing the teams? We said we would had more clans last season if we reduced clan sizes to 10 and here we are again with less clans.

As ive always said, the only thing to do is find people who want to captain a clan and players will come, cause the main reason why they dont join is that theyre never asked. Maybe asking pool captains to captain a clan even on here might be an idea?

I wouldn't mind that, just the quiet ones though

If you have a mixed snooker and pool league then pool players will find their way over here and vice versa. Im not gonna lie, i spend more time on pool now.

Getting towards decision time soon. How should we proceed here? Im not really looking to run a 4-team league...

Why not try a draft system for a season. Three pots for quality/ranking deideded by Seb and then split the names up to create 8 players per team approx. Might get 8 teams of players who will play. Even teams and gives us a league until autumn when it gets a bit busier (hopefully)

I dont see any problem with a 4 team league, i know it wont be much fun but i think it would still be better than not having one.

play twice ..home and away ..some sort of advantage for the home team maybe a choice of an extra type in one extra game.

or just play twice..

Whatever is decided you have to give me time to alter spreadsheets (Particularly with new formats) as i won't be able to do it in one day

Thats a couple of hours work there Jim step it up son!

hehe could be mate, but depends what needs tweaking, if its an entirely new format then a new spreadsheet could be used to save the old format (format now) for later

Can the Website runners at some point update the website with each clan & their history, not been done for a few seasons

http://funkysnookerclanleague.weebly.com/clans.html

maybe include Pages from retired teams also

Start sign ups now deadline Saturday?... pre season line ups requested saturday night... fixtures out sunday night?

Pretty obvious its 5 teams and 5 teams only so crack on

Fair enough...
will open signups with the same conditions as last season. We might have to take a look at a different cup format with only 5 teams though.

bump

Maybe for Pre season Friendlies we can have 1 League and 1 Cup format instead of 2 League? But have it 6 players in a cup format for pre season

Thoughts for the League schedule?

Looking at 8 league games for each team compared with 14 last season... unless you play teams 3 times in the League


Cup idea?
Group of 5.... all play eachother once

1st place advances to Cup Final
2nd vs 3rd.... Winner to Cup Final. Loser to Plate Final
4th vs 5th. Winner to Plate Final

Edited at 15:55 Thu 07/05/15 (BST)

We did do this but each season, some clans folded which you get each season.

It would be easy to do for established clans like D&C, Legends and other clans but new clans would be trickier.

At the moment the clan pages are hidden but if you put the clan name at the end of http://www.funkysnookerclanleague.weebly.com/ then it should show, If the clan has a space then put a - for D&C its trickier due to & but as you say hasn't been up to date for seasons

The deadline being on a week day might not be such a terrible thing, I actually wondered before whether a weekday deadline would make a slight improvement on the defaults. It's the psychological aspect really.. People get 2 weekends still and because most people tend to play their games of a weekend there will still be a rush on the second weekend to ensure all games are played, then a couple of days in the week for stragglers to finish up without it going over the deadline. I'm not sure if the deadline will stay as a Thursday or just for the friendlies but it might be something to consider.