Post by JoeLatics on May 15, 2010 14:39:50 GMT
RHF Manager: World Cup Special
You might remember the old RHF Manager. It was massively popular, and increased posting no end (until it died!)
How about a World Cup RHF Manager?
We get as many countries as people who sign up, then allocate them randomly between the members.
We sort them into groups, then go on to do knockout rounds.
People have to name 23 man squads, then 11 man squads on or before a certain day.
As for determining results, I have a couple of ideas for how to do this:
1) An independant adjudicator (me!) decides the probability for each possible score (say 0-4 to 4-0), and then uses a random number generator to get the result.
For instance:
England play the Dominican Republic.
(England score first)
4-0 = 5%
4-1 = 4%
4-2 = 3%
4-3 = 1%
4-4 = 0.2%
3-0 = 6%
3-1 = 4%
3-2 = 2%
3-3 = 1%
and so on (can't be arsed to do them all at the minute!!)
I'd then give each result a range equivalent to its possibility - In the example above the result 4-0 would take up the numbers 0-40, the result 4-1 would take up 41 - 81, and so on. Then set up a random number generator that goes from 1-1000, and whichever number is chosen is the result.
That would be a fair bit of work for me, but easy and fair for everyone else.
2) Another alternative would be for me to set up a Football Manager game, take control of the teams, and put all the choices into the game, and let that decide the result (this would be difficult for me, as Ubuntu doesn't like FM!! I'd have to try to install it on the old PC).
3) The final option is to allow the players to decide the results. I'd send a PM to all players, who have to decide results for all games in the other group, during the group stages. Once in the knock out round, I'd ask all the people who'd been knocked out already to decide the results.
So, what do you think?
I think this would be an interesting thing to do during a World Cup year!
I'd prefer either number 1) or number 3) myself - what do you think?