Pre-season Team Ratings and Seed OrderFIBS Team League Season V started today with 17 teams down from 19 last season, but others may well be added .. based on individual player FIBS ratings, average team ratings are used for the seed order below .. while the pre-season average team rating is only an early indicator of relative team strength, the top three finishers last season,
Club Voodoo,
Cube Sluts, and
Take the Money and Run were among the top five seeds in last season's pre-season ratings
Top Five SeedsTake the Money and Run, third seed last season, takes the top seed with the addition of
elmicho to
dorbel and
BushSucks ..
Club Voodoo, last season's champion, remains intact with
scuba,
gumpi, and
factotum and remains the number 2 seed .. last seasons top seed,
Smack, Slap, and Spank (1850) is replaced by
Sixty and the Pips, number 3 seed with my new teammates
roderick and
jukins ..
Ottoman's Empire remains intact with
otto,
jimbok, and
taylor and repeats as the number 4 seed ..
Virtual Addicts remain intact with
mradica,
kristoffer, and
Tomawaky and rounds out the top five seeds, up from number 7 last season
Other Repeating Teamsthe
Cube Sluts, champions for the first three seasons and second place last season, also remain intact as a team with
Backwoods,
donzaemon, and
diane returning .. the
Sluts are the number 8 seed, down from number three last season .. three other teams remain intact with the same players from last season -
schigstogsedat,
Axe Wound renamed from
No Nuts A**hole, and
two homos and a phobe (
MOJO last season) ..
UN Trio repeats with two new players,
juanz and
_centasivo .. and a chick,
cowgirl, is added to
two chicks and a dick (
two dicks and a chick last season)
other familiar players return with new team names and/or players, sorry if i missed yours .. see the official standings for a complete roster of players at http://www.souptree.net/fibs_league/?page=standings&graphics=small (http://www.souptree.net/fibs_league/?page=standings&graphics=small)
Pre-season Seed Order[table=]
Team Rank , Name , Avg Rating, , Avg Exp,
1
,
Take the Money and Run,
1851
, ,
12837
,
2
,
Club Voodoo,
1846
, ,
17173
,
3
,
Sixty and the Pips,
1818
, ,
20947
,
4
,
Ottoman's Empire,
1815
, ,
44559
,
5
,
Virtual Addicts,
1802
, ,
6064
,
6
,
Axe Wound,
1798
, ,
44729
,
7
,
Racing Snails,
1783
, ,
8473
,
8
,
Cube Sluts,
1765
, ,
36484
,
9
,
DG on FIBS,
1756
, ,
14998
,
10
,
Elect Lakish in '08,
1750
, ,
51667
,
11
,
schigstogsedat,
1740
, ,
30595
,
12
,
The Team With No Name,
1704
, ,
25080
,
13
,
Hopano,
1666
, ,
41135
,
14
,
Dracula's Sons,
1648
, ,
13639
,
15
,
UN Trio,
1630
, ,
52650
,
16
,
two homos and a phobe,
1626
, ,
13458
,
17
,
two chicks and a dick,
1589
, ,
30495
,
,
Average
,
1740
, ,
27352
,
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for last season's final individual stats and the thread of posts for the last few weeks of the season with predictions from my simulations see http://www.fibsboard.com/fibsleagammon/team-league-predictions-t1672.0.html (http://www.fibsboard.com/fibsleagammon/team-league-predictions-t1672.0.html) .. last season's final standings are available at http://www.souptree.net/fibs_league/?page=standings&graphics=small&historic=4 (http://www.souptree.net/fibs_league/?page=standings&graphics=small&historic=4) .. change the 4 to a 3, 2, or 1 for earlier seasons
new teams may be added or changes in players may occur during the first few days or weeks of this season, i'll update the seed order, if necessary .. once the season is underway, i'll begin posting projected standings based on predictions from simulations of position by position play including current results .. the seed order above is based soley on average team ratings .. predictions of the model based on position by position simulations may vary from this seed order .. it will take a few days to set up the model for this season
good luck to all and enjoy the fifth Team League season .. special thanks to
souptree and
zyxtcba for providing another fun season .. please feel free to add comments or corrections any time
your intrepid TL reporter,
sixty
Pre-season Team Ratings and Seed Order - Day 3updated to include two new teams,
Buds 'n Brat on day 2 and
Rigged Dice on day 3, and also corrects minor rounding errors ..
Rating and
Exp are team averages for members FIBS ratings and experience on opening day or as new teams are added
New TeamsRigged Dice with
blitzxz (1851),
wordman (1827), and
ckopmann* (1777), enters play as the number 4 seed ..
Buds 'n Brat becomes the twelve seed with
blotsalot (1757),
DeaDice* (1675), and
Kari_Grandi (1777)
They're Backthe
Cube Sluts, number eight seed originally and number nine now, are off to a remarkable 8-0 start at the end of play on day 3, Friday the 18th
[table=]
Seed , Name , Rating, , Exp,
1
,
Take the Money and Run,
1851
, ,
12837
,
2
,
Club Voodoo,
1846
, ,
17173
,
3
,
Sixty and the Pips,
1819
, ,
20947
,
4
,
Rigged Dice,
1818
, ,
18340
,
5
,
Ottoman's Empire,
1815
, ,
44559
,
6
,
Virtual Addicts,
1803
, ,
6064
,
7
,
Axe Wound,
1798
, ,
44729
,
8
,
Racing Snails,
1784
, ,
8473
,
9
,
Cube Sluts,
1766
, ,
36484
,
10
,
DG on FIBS,
1757
, ,
14998
,
11
,
Elect Lakish in '08,
1750
, ,
51667
,
12
,
schigstogsedat,
1740
, ,
30595
,
13
,
Buds 'n Brat,
1736
, ,
18601
,
14
,
The Team With No Name,
1705
, ,
25080
,
15
,
Hopano,
1667
, ,
41135
,
16
,
Dracula's Sons,
1649
, ,
13639
,
17
,
UN Trio,
1630
, ,
52650
,
18
,
two homos and a phobe,
1626
, ,
13458
,
19
,
two chicks and a dick,
1589
, ,
30495
,
,Average,
1745
, ,
26417
,
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