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From: Jonathan Palmer <jonathan.palmer@somerville.oxford.ac.uk>
To: "HUGHES, Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Handicapping
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I'm not convinced about changing the number of players. I can see a good
team getting 5 or 6 points ahead losing a couple of players deciding not
to run them selves ragged and not playing for a few points until the scores
are level they get their team back and go another 5 points ahead. I can't
see this being much fun for either team.

I still like the idea of freebie points. How about this each team gets a
number of freebie points which is one the than their seeding number. ie.
seed one gets no points seed 2 gets one point .. seed 16 gets 15 points
etc. These points could then be used in the following way. If a player
throws a bad pass which isn't caught or which is D'd by the other team a
freebie point can be used to rethrow the disc (from a reset stall count)
plus if you have a  catching chance (ie got a hand to the disc)
but drop the disc you can use a freebie point to call it a catch.

With this system even the weakest team could huck the disc to a player in
the end zone who only has to get a hand on it to score provided they have
points left to use.

Jon Palmer
OW!
jonathan.palmer@some.ox.ac.uk