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Essex Chess Fantasy League Rules
1.
You have £130,000 to spend on your team.
2.
Your team must have a name.
3.
A team consists of 8 players.
4.
The cost of a player is as below:
Category
|
Grade
|
Cost
|
1
|
200+
|
£45k
|
2
|
180-199
|
£30k
|
3
|
160-179
|
£21k
|
4
|
140-159
|
£15k
|
5
|
120-139
|
£10k
|
6
|
100-119
|
£6k
|
7
|
80-99
|
£3k
|
8
|
0-79
|
£1k
|
U
|
Ungraded
|
£15k
|
5.
Team lists to be submitted by 15th
October 2015
6.
Season runs from July to July grading changes.
7.
You can change your team after Januarys
published grades (submission of new team by 1st Feb) or stick even
if value has changed.
8.
A player gets the grading points as per ECF
grading rules (opponent’s grade +50 points for a win, opponent’s grade for a
draw, opponent’s grade minus 50 points for a loss; opponents grade can be no
more than 40 points higher or lower).
9.
Games from Essex Chess League, North Essex Chess
League, Southend Chess League and Essex County Matches count.
10.
Organisers will publish approx. monthly on this website, Essex
Fantasy Chess League Facebook page and email standings.
11.
Prizes to be announced for 1-3rd.
Title of EFCL Champion team to 1st place.
12.
Places can be shared.
13.
Organiser’s decisions are final.
Contact Email: gavinstrachan@hotmail.com
Good Luck and Enjoy!
Grading rules for points direct from www.ecfgrading.org.uk
ReplyDeleteThe basic method of calculation is as described in the next few paragraphs. For juniors, however, there are differences as described further down.
Points are allocated in respect of each game. For a win you score the opponent's grade plus 50, for a draw the opponent's grade, and for a loss the opponent's grade minus 50. "Grade" means his grade current at the time of grading. There is a proviso that if your opponent's grade differs from yours by more than 40 points it is assumed to be exactly 40 above (or below) yours. This applies whatever the result.
If an opponent (or the player himself) is ungraded, a "starting grade" is estimated, using all available information. See Estimating a starting grade for an ungraded player below. Note that FIDE ratings are ignored. An opponent who has only a FIDE rating will be treated as ungraded.
In the interval between the end of a grading period and publication of the new grades, the "current" grade for calculation purposes is the new, as yet unpublished, grade.
The grade is calculated by dividing the total number of points scored by the number of games played. If there are 30 or more games in the most recent 12 months, then the grade is based on these games alone. If there are not, it is based on the most recent ** 30 games played; or on all the games played in the last 36 months if that is less. In no case does calculation go back more than 36 months. Where games are brought forward from a previous period, they are not recalculated. The number of points scored for a game always remains the same.
** "Most recent" has a special meaning here. In principle the program counts backwards till it reaches 30 games. But there are certain disadvantages (see Appendix) to applying this naïvely. Instead, if the 30th game falls part way through a 6-month period, the program will take as many games from that period as it requires in order to make up the 30; but they will be notional games calculated at the average score for the whole 6-month period.
How is "most recent 30" interpreted if a game has been reported late and graded in the "wrong" period? Answer: the game will be listed under the grading period in which it was reported and calculated, and it will go into that period's grade with a notional playing date of 1st January (or 1st July as the case may be). This notional date will be used, where necessary, to determine the game's position in the backward count to 30.