Posted by ozomatli on 3/28/2020 8:01:00 PM (view original):

Who is the Best Sim Baseball Owner in WIS?

In order to be considered the best, you need to have success over a broad range of different themes at various salary caps. This tournament will absolutely determine who the best WIS owner is. The winner will have had to put together 12 solid teams over a 5-month time period. Serious WIS owners only. Here's how it works:

* The field is typically limited to 96 owners. In order to guarantee your spot in this Championship Event, you will need to purchase a $15 GC. See below for instructions on purchasing a GC.

* In Round 1, there will be 6 different themes we'll each be involved in. Assuming 96 owners, there will be four instances of each of the six themes. All twenty-four leagues (4 * 6 = 24) will be started at the same time. Points will be awarded based on wins and playoffs success. Points = Regular season wins + playoff wins + 10 points for winning the World Series. Note that this formula was updated in 2019.

* The top 24 owners in cumulative points from Round 1 (regardless of which leagues they were in) will advance to round 2. In Round 2, there will be another 6 themes (different from the first six themes). The same points formula will be used in round 2. Round 1 results will not be completely ignored in the final score. The weighting will be 33% for Round 1 and 67% for Round 2.... In other words, the cumulative Round 1 score will be divided by 2 and added to the Round 2 score to determine the Best Owner in WIS.

* The leagues will not be determined randomly, but the divisions within each league will be. Once the 96 owners have purchased the $15 GC, then I will use a complex formula, originally developed by schwarze and updated by ozomatli, to rank every entrant and use this ranking for the league alignments for Round 1. This will essentially distribute the higher-ranking owners into different leagues.

* The formula to rank the owners will be based on your historical stats on WIS. If you participated in any of the previous WIS Championship(s), then how you fared in those will also come into play (more weight given to more recent performances). The more tournaments you play in, the more weight this factor will have in your overall rating. The final piece of the ranking formula is recency -- how you have done since your last appearance in the tournament, relative to other owners.

* In the event that one or more of the top 24 owners from Round 1 decide not to enter round 2, then the next best owners(s) from Round 1 will advance. In case of ties, the tie-breakers will be (1) regular season wins (2) playoff wins (3) best single team overall point total (4) second best single team overall point total, etc.

* As far as prizes, assuming 96 teams, we'll have $1440 in gift certificates plus admin will be adding $300. That's $1740 worth of GC to distribute. All teams advancing to Round 2 will be guaranteed at least $30 in GC. If more or less than 96 owners participate, the prizes will be adjusted accordingly (see below).


Prize Structure (based on 96 teams)

Place	Prize Amt
1st	$250
2nd	$200
3rd	$150
4th	$120
5th	$100
6th	$90
7th	$80
8th	$70
9th	$60
10th	$50
11th	$40
12th	$40
13th-24th	$30
25th-26th	$10

The team with the best regular season record in each of the six Round 1 themes will each receive $15 (ties split).

The prize is nice but what we're all really after is the recognition as being the BEST.

* As far as the themes go, different cap levels will be used. There will be two lower cap (< 100M), two mid-cap (>= 100M & <= 120M) and two higher cap (> 120M) themes included. There will not be any drafts in Round 1. There will be at least one but not more than two drafts in Round 2.

If you are interested, please post here. I don't expect that we'll start playing any games for at least 6 weeks, as it will take a bit of time to fill the tournament, create rosters, verify rosters, etc.

** The themes for Round 1 can be found HERE