World's Pre-Season Cup

[Justin Bieber]

Hey fellas.

The layout will be how CF and Ossie posted in this thread.

Week 1 (Round 2 of NAB cup):
Randomly split everyone in to 3 groups of 6. The highest scoring team in each group goes through to the next round, as does the highest scoring team that finished second in their group.

e.g
Group A
Team 1 - 156
Team 2 - 143
Team 3,4,5,6 scores don't matter

Group B
Team 7 - 139
Team 8 - 138
Team 9,10,11,12 scores don't matter

Group 3
Team 13 - 159
Team 14 - 149
Team 15,16,17,18 scores don't matter

The teams in bold go through to the next round.

Then after that same as ossie's suggestion :)

With the Pools being:

Asia-Pacific
Beijing
Seoul
Tokyo
Wellington
New Delhi
Pacific

Europe-Africa
Berlin
Dublin
London
PNL
Cairo
Cape Town

Americas and Russia
Buenos Aires
Sao Paulo
Mexico City
New York
Toronto
Moscow

This is to get a little Continental competition for the first round.

As the top of each group will move forward as well as the highest scoring 2nd place finisher, for the later rounds I don't mind randomly allocating people opponents based on the first round scores (e.g. Pools of 4 now, 5th Vs 8th, 6th Vs 7th, 9th Vs 12th, 10th Vs 11th, 13th Vs 18th, 14th Vs 17th, 15th Vs 16th). OR I could randomly allocate opponents or let people see if there is anybody they are able to arrange matches with, wouldn't mind that either. Random allocation seems the easiest option, but if people would like to have a mini series or have a little rivalry match with somebody, organise it and let me know :). However, will hope it'll be handed in by the Tuesday that week so have time to randomly allocate the other teams! So if you want to organise a match, best to do it on the weekend please :).

EDIT: Will allow for 5 emergencies considering it's the NAB and players will tend to be missing/rested so may need the spots!

ROUND 1:
Asia-Pacific
Seoul Magpies - 1197. HUGE score to top the group lead from the front by Danger's 248! Kelly (124), Duffield (113) and Bolton (111) was certainly the highlights for the Magpies under new Coaches! Great way to kick off their first match in charge, even if just Pre-Season. Jordan Roughead's 77 and Jake Lloyd's 85 probably won't be overlooked as they will be aiming to crack into this side!

New Delhi Tigers - 920. MASSIVE 240 from Captain Joey Montagna along with Blair's 87 were the only real stand out performances for the side. Mullett showing potential though with a solid 72. Knocking on the door for the side is Matthew White with his 67.

Tokyo Samurais - 877. Scotty Selwood continuing where he left off last year with 111 and Shuey's 91 was good backup. Carlisle (82) and Lewis Jetta (79) look ready to step up their game for the Samurais this season as it was a solid all round effort from the team. Stratton, Daniel Stewart and Ross all making a move to get into the team for next week with scores in the 60's!

Pacific Islanders - 799. Rocky managed 106 as Captain with de Boer (79) and Sam Gibson (75) being the best individual performers in the side. J. Simpkin, Tomlinson, Cunningham and J. Frost all potentially call ups for the coming week or two after scoring well in the 50's.

Beijing Bears - 786. Big effort from Harry Taylor scoring 124 backed up well by Big Cornelius with his 94. Could have pulled a bigger score if Rosa was able to stay on more. Kane Mitchell should be knocking on the door for the Bears after he was left out of the squad, only to notch up 100! Also expect Wines and Neville Jetta to be looked at in the future.

Wellington Warriors - 762. No Captain or Vice named so bottom of the group. Solid performances but no stand outs for the Warriors this round. Marc Murphy's 81 and first year Lachie Whitfield's 89 led the team. They would be happy with Whitfield's score and hope it's just a sign of things to come this season! Emergencies were called upon as well.


Europe-Africa
Berlin Brewers - 926. Franklin did well as Captain amassing 198. Magner managed 98 but the highest scoring non-captain player goes to an emergency in James Sellar who came in for 101! Purple would be very happy with him able to do so well to fill in down back. Everitt's 93 will certainly put him in contention for a first team call up in the near future.

London Royals - 898. A massive 216 from Captain brent Stanton led the team with Hannebery being great backup with his 104 as well. Unnamed Tuohy making a play for a call up with his 65, scoring higher than more than half of the team named this week!

Dublin Destroyers - 872. Redden's 132 as Captain was solid but it was Rance's 103 that stole the show for Dublin. They'd be very happy Rance has found a potentially high scoring role in the lineup. Mundy looking nice this pre-season with an 85.

Cairo Sands - 871.5. Hanley was a tad let down as captain with Armitage (98), Douglas (94) and Grigg (83) picking up the slack. Matt Jones gets the late call up as a replacement for Hams playing OOP.

PNL Reindeers - 839. Captain Priddis's 176 was backed up with new ruckman Griffin's 82 and Ray's 88. Ray has certainly shown he can perform given the chance.

Cape Town Cobras - No Team.


Americas and Russia
Mexico City Suns - 1123. WHOPPING score with Goddard's 164 as Captain combined with Bartel's 114 and Sidebottom's 109. Was a great all round effort from the side with Pfeiffer the lowest scorer with 26. They could have managed a larger score had Baguley played, his 107 going to put pressure on Maca to try and fit him into this strong side!

Sao Paulo Pumas - 1008. Masten stood up as Captain with 226! With Hartlett's 98, Jacob's 80, Armstrong's 92 not to mention a great team effort, shows why they are one of the top teams from last year and set to contend again! Minson (66) and Porplyzia (60) couldn't even be named as emergencies shows that there is depth as well to the Pumas lineup! All done without Ablett, Sloane, Roughead, Waters and Zaharakis.

Moscow Spetnaz - 945. Very solid scores from Griffen (99), Shaw (91) and Treloar (90) with fairly decent backup enabled Moscow to perform pretty well in the group of death. Seedsman gets called in as an emergency to cover for Dixon in the Ruck. You'd imagine Meowmeow will be very pleased with Treloar, been bragging all pre-season that he will average over 100 this season and he may be quite right! Martin Clarke (75) and Colquhoun (78) also performing well to try and get their chance at first team action.

Buenos Aires Armadillos - 862.5. Alot of solid performances but nothing spectacular in the pre season. Swan scored 140 as Captain with Cox (81) and Boyd (98) being the only other notable scorers. Nails would be shaking his head at some of the performances and hope for them to pick up their game next week!

Toronto Wolves - 858. Late submission of the team and left out a Captain/Vice sadly. Also required emergencies named! Lucky for them it included Clint Jones' 87 to join Pendlebury's 99, Robinson's 99 and Zorko's 90 as the best players for the round.

New York Revolution - No Team.


ROUND 2:
Seoul Magpies 1071 DEFEATED Sao Paulo Pumas 940.
Mexico Suns 1140 DEFEATED Berlin Brewers 925.

This makes the final of the Pre-Season comp the Seoul Magpies Vs Mexico Suns. Nobody has expected Seoul to make such a charge early with so many off-season dramas involving several coaching changes, but looks like they've done something right with JB & KoopKicka at the helm! Maca will look to keep the Suns roaring forward into the season, heavily favoured to contend for the top spot and Premiership again, so a Pre-Season Cup will just be the warm up for them.

In other action this round:
Moscow Spetnaz 700 DEFEATED BY Cairo Sands 879
New Dehli Tigers 709.5 DEFEATED BY Dublin Destroyers 1034
London Royals 912 DEFEATED BY Tokyo Samurais 972
Buenos Aires Armadillos 799 DEFEATED BY Pacific Islanders 863
Toronto Wolves 948 DEFEATED BY PNL Reindeers 960
Beijing Bears 656 DEFEATED BY Wellington Warriors 762
New York Revolution DREW WITH Cape Town Cobras due to no team being named from either side .


ROUND 3:
FINAL!!!
Mexico Suns Vs Seoul Magpies

Other matchups will be decided after lockout this round.

[CrowsFan]

The Pumas are looking forward to their title defense :)

Have you worked out exactly how it will be done HP? You could do it similarly to how it was done last year, but instead make it compulsory to play - http://www.fanfooty.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,45130.0.html

The good thing about that comp was you didn't have to do anything for round 1 of the nab where they have the stupid 40 minute matches split over 2 weeks...

[Justin Bieber]

Was likely going to do it like last season, probably easiest way given the structure of the NAB Cup ::).

Should be able to fill in the 3 weeks, but with the last week being the NAB Grand Final I assume they'll be putting out the scores for the other matches being played that week? I forgot how they work it out as never really followed proper scoring for DT during the NAB until after it was over.

[ossie85]

Yeah, they release DT scores usually the following wednesday I think

[ossie85]

How about this HP? (Don't know if you have organised the format already, so please feel free to ignore).

Week 1 (Round 2 of NAB cup): Each coach enters team, but have no opposition.

Week 2 (Round 3 of NAB cup): The top 4 scoring teams from last week play. 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd

Week 3 (NAB Cup Grand Final): The winners of last week? The SC scores for the Challenge matches should be up reasonably soon after?

Just a thought....

[CrowsFan]

Another way you could go it is:

Week 1 (Round 2 of NAB cup):
Randomly split everyone in to 3 groups of 6. The highest scoring team in each group goes through to the next round, as does the highest scoring team that finished second in their group.

e.g
Group A
Team 1 - 156
Team 2 - 143
Team 3,4,5,6 scores don't matter

Group B
Team 7 - 139
Team 8 - 138
Team 9,10,11,12 scores don't matter

Group 3
Team 13 - 159
Team 14 - 149
Team 15,16,17,18 scores don't matter

The teams in bold go through to the next round.

Then after that same as ossie's suggestion :)

[ossie85]

Edit - fixed your bold issues :)

Either way, I'm fine

[CrowsFan]

Didn't know I had bold issues, always thought I was quite confident :P

Yeah I'm fine with whatever HP wants to do, just think the splitting in to groups thing is fun because if you get put in to a rubbish group you could still score rubbish, but still goes through so adds some luck. Which I guess some people wouldn't want though because then they would be the 4th highest scoring team and miss out on the finals...

Oh wait that's already happened :P

[ossie85]

Oh burn!

Though, how about not-random?

Asia-Pacific
Beijing
Seoul
Tokyo
Wellington
New Delhi
Pacific


Europe-Africa
Berlin
Dublin
London
PNL
Cairo
Cape Town


Americas and Russia
Buenos Aires
Sao Paulo
Mexico City
New York
Toronto
Moscow

[CrowsFan]

Guess that would be the fairest way to do it, but I don't want it done that way since I would say 4 of the strongest 5 teams are in my group...

[Holz]

Guess that would be the fairest way to do it, but I don't want it done that way since I would say 4 of the strongest 5 teams are in my group...

im happy with the draw. Dublin might rack up a few wins.

[Ringo]

Guess that would be the fairest way to do it, but I don't want it done that way since I would say 4 of the strongest 5 teams are in my group...

im happy with the draw. Dublin might rack up a few wins.

especially with London rebuilding and you trading well. :D :D

[Justin Bieber]

How about this HP? (Don't know if you have organised the format already, so please feel free to ignore).

Week 1 (Round 2 of NAB cup): Each coach enters team, but have no opposition.

Week 2 (Round 3 of NAB cup): The top 4 scoring teams from last week play. 1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd

Week 3 (NAB Cup Grand Final): The winners of last week? The SC scores for the Challenge matches should be up reasonably soon after?

Just a thought....

Was going to do it last night but fell asleep randomly while on the comp... I shouldn't eat late as I fall asleep like 20 mins after :-X. Only thing that bothers me about the above, is that a team just needs say 3 X Factor style players going off and they progress. And there is no competition between people first round so why I pretty much had my layout like CF's to add some more comp feel to it :D.

Didn't know I had bold issues, always thought I was quite confident :P

Yeah I'm fine with whatever HP wants to do, just think the splitting in to groups thing is fun because if you get put in to a rubbish group you could still score rubbish, but still goes through so adds some luck. Which I guess some people wouldn't want though because then they would be the 4th highest scoring team and miss out on the finals...

Oh wait that's already happened :P

Why I like the grouping idea! Was likely to randomise the groups though but could work something similar to what Ossie proposed. Although as CF said, he'd have quite a tough group to get past!

And for 2nd and 3rd round, don't mind if people would like to play friendlies if knocked out. Will send out a PM later tonight asking Coaches if they'd be up for it (putting in a team for rest of the NAB) and those that do I can randomise their opponents unless they'd like to specifically face somebody (e.g. Rivalry match). Then they can organise themselves and can contact me about it.

[ossie85]

Fairly sure I was meant to pick a preseason team for somebody.... Was it Toronto?

[CrowsFan]

I had asked you to, but that was for if there was a round during the first round of the nab. Not sure if anyone else had...