Life In 19x19

Update: The League has begun! Results posted in this thread, it's not too late to join!

Fantasy League Rules:

Dates:
I intend this to be a shorter test league, running for the rest of November, December, January, and February. If all goes well we can hopefully make the league ongoing. The first game to add points for the league will be the Kuksu final game 3, on Nov 8.

Professional Selection:
Each player has $300 for buying pros. No more than $100 may be spent on pros from any one country.
To figure out the costs of each pro, I figured out how many points they would have earned in the following events:


The Player Costs:



Any player not on this list costs $1. You may buy as many pros as you can afford, but only $100 on players from a single country (if you don't know what country a pro is from, ask). Multiple players may buy the same pro. You do not have to spend all your money at once, but pros bought midway through an event will not recieve points for that event; you can't buy a player once they reach the finals and get points for that win. You may sell pros, but you only recieve 90% of refund price, rounded to the nearest dollar. (There may be periodic "free trades", to be determined).

Point System for tournaments:


Upcoming Events and Points:

All events that count for points will be collected here. I may add more events as we go along; if so I will post an announcement and update this list.


Important: Note that as we begin the league, ongoing tournaments will add points to your totals. If we wait until each new tournament begins, there will be too few games.

If you'd like to play, just post in this thread with your purchase choices. Any questions or comments, please ask

Here's my team.

China
Gu Li - 49
Chen Yaoye - 23
Zhou Ruiyang - 10
Tan Xiao - 8
Tuo Jiaxi - 6
Gu LIngyi - 4

Japan
Iyama Yuta - 44
Hane Naoki - 29
Takao Shinji - 26
Murakawa Daisuke - 1

Korea
Park Junghwan - 48
Kim Jiseok - 28
Kang Dongyun - 11
Lee Younggu - 7
Baek Hongsuk - 3
Ko Geuntae - 2
Cho Insun - 1

What does halfway through an event mean for the Japanese leagues?

How are you awarding points for the Korean and Chinese events?

Korea:
Na Hyun (1)
Lee Sedol (40)
Lee Changho (26)
Cho Insun (1)
Heo Yeongho (30)

China:
Chen Yaoye (23)
Jang Weijie (28)
Kong Jie (21)

Japan:
Iyama Yuta (44)
Cho U (32)
Takeo Shinji (26)

Are you allowing a pro to be owned by more than one person? Because I see some overlap.

My teams:

China
Piao Wenyao 25
Xie He 16
Qiu Jun 11
Chang Hao 9
Li Zhe 9
Hu Yaoyu 8
Peng Quan 4
Liu Xing 4

Japan
Yamashita Keigo 45
Sakai Hideyuki 8
O Rissei 8
Yuki Satoshi 7
Yoda Norimoto 4

Korea
Choi Cheolhan 35
Park Yeonghun 34
Mok Jinseok 8

hyperpape wrote:What does halfway through an event mean for the Japanese leagues?

How are you awarding points for the Korean and Chinese events?

For the round-robin leagues, you can still get points midway because everyone plays the same number of games. So if you pick up a player with three games left in the round-robin, you can still get points for those three games.

Myeongin & GS Caltex Cup are straight single-elimination, and score the same as the international cups. Kuksu, Mingren, and Tianyuan have a single-elimination tournament to pick a challenger (like tengen). For those the title-holder gets the same 11 points as for the Japanese titles, and the points for the rest of the tournament are essentially the same: 11 to challenge, 9 for 2nd place, 7 for semis, 4 for Ro8, 2 for Ro16, 1 for Ro32.

For Nongshim Cup and Triple Meijin, I counted a flat 2 points per win. I'll add these to the first post.

I want to emphasize that ideally I'd like to include more events than just these, and we'll have to come up with new points formats as we add new tournaments. I think this thing will ramp up as we go, many of the events take place over the course of a year.

lindentree wrote:Are you allowing a pro to be owned by more than one person? Because I see some overlap.

Yes, multiple people can purchase the same pro. I've edited the rules to clarify, thank you

I did my Japan list, haven't thought hard enough about the rest.



Edit: Silly mistake, had > instead of <.

Are there any restrictions about when, how much and how often one can change his linsup? Lineup-changes are via pm I guess?

never tried anything like this, but looks like fun, so here is my team:

if i decide to drop out, it hurts nothing, right? my only job was to choose players and then watch how they are doing?

p2501 wrote:Are there any restrictions about when, how much and how often one can change his linsup? Lineup-changes are via pm I guess?

Yes, there will be restrictions, I haven't decided exactly how frequently one can trade players, I'm leaning towards a fixed number of trades per month (maybe 5)?

Laman wrote:if i decide to drop out, it hurts nothing, right? my only job was to choose players and then watch how they are doing?

Yes, there's no harm in dropping out. There shouldn't be any harm in joining late either, with the caveat that you may not get points for ongoing events.

Also, from when to when is the league - this will factor in the selection of my team. Are the tournaments which you used to determine the worth of a player the ones affecting the league?

Thanks for the quick reply

p2501 wrote:Also, from when to when is the league - this will factor in the selection of my team. Are the tournaments which you used to determine the worth of a player the ones affecting the league?

Thanks for the quick reply

I updated the first post in a way that hopefully answers your first question.

All the tournaments I used to determine costs will be used in the league, at the prices posted. In addition, I reserve the right to add additional tournaments at what prices I see fit, as I find time to add them

In particular, some of the things I'm thinking about:
Japan's Tengen, Oza, Judan, Gosei
Korean Baduk League, Chinese A League
Asian TV Cup

I'm definitely open to suggestions for additional events, so please post if there's something in particular you want to see!

I might as well throw my hat into the ring on this, though I'm just going to spend $100 on each and watch what happens. My Japanese team is huge ... but not all that strong ...

EDIT: emeraldemon, you may want to make sure I assigned my pros to the correct countries ... I'm really bad at following the Go scene ...

China:


Japan:


Korea: