Re: Grand Prix Management PBeM

From: clemenr@westminster.ac.uk (Ross Clement)

Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

JJF (J.J.Farmer-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
: In article <325A61A3.7DF5@the18thhole.com>, JJF <jjf@the18thhole.com> writes:
: |> I've got some vague ideas about starting up a Play-by-Email game based
: |> (vaguely) on the management of a Grand Prix team - hire/fire the drivers,
: |> choose the engine, etc...  I haven't actually dipped into the coding bit
: |> of it yet, so the game won't be starting in the near future, but I was
: |> just wondering if anyone had any ideas/opinions about this?

: Just to elaborate, I am intending the game to have imaginary teams, drivers,
: engines, etc, with each player managing and making decisions about his/her own
: team & the race results decided by a computer, as opposed to the Autosport
: Fantasy F1 type of game which is based on the real races.

Why have imaginary drivers. It might compete a bit with Pick6, but you could
have a system where everybody picks a combination of driver/chassis/engine.
The actual GP results could be analysed, and the engines/drivers/
chassis(can anyone tell me how to spell the plural of this word?) would
be given points. Your team would receive the points scored by its
combination (even if the actual combination you specify doesn't actually
exist in the real world).

A problem with this is that everyone would pick more or less the same
team. This could be prevented by dividing the points gained for (e.g.)
each driver by the number of people who have chosen that driver. Then
there would be a real incentive to look for mid-pack drivers/engines/
combinations that are under-rated and are unlikely to be picked by
others. It wouldn't take much effort for the players, as you'd make
your decision once at the beginning of the year, and then just wait
for the results (like the newspaper fantasy GP team games).

I'm not sure if this is anything like what you're suggesting, or
whether I'm suggesting a whole new game.

Cheers,

Ross-c

References

Grand Prix Management PBeM
JJF <jjf@the18thhole.com>
Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Grand Prix Management PBeM
J.J.Farmer-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk (JJF)
Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Grand Prix Management PBeM
JJF <jjf@the18thhole.com>
Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Grand Prix Management PBeM
J.J.Farmer-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk (JJF)
Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000