i'm 14

i knew you were higher up than me :) but a great guess on being lower than djbent, very close...

13) djbent
14)Babak
267) Orathaic
???)StevenC.

I might warn against using just G-Rating to make the decision as to who should/shouldn't be put into the team.

why would you make that warning, ghost?

would you suggest that people vote on who gets to represent us?

we could use the hall of fame: i'm #78 a much better standing, but i'm not actually in favour of points, (or ppsc games)

There are two reasons:

1. Some players there will be there because of PPSC rather than WTA play, so it is less relevant.
2. Some players will be very good at beating average to good players, but weaker against the very top players.

very good points. so what would your recommendation be, oh wise maker of ghosts?

so the ghost-rating rewards solos whether the other players tried to 'stop the leader' as they would in WTA or not (as might be in the case of PPSC) ? and these players are likely to give up no longer likely to be the one who solos? that makes sense, but about point two?

soooo... what's the verdict?

"Hmm, why not national teams within this website? Could be a nice idea though I would have to choose between playing for the U.S., Spain, and Honduras"
that's more interesting...

I assume it would take a lot of planning, though because of the qualification process especially.

The hall of fame is pretty flawed. Right now I'm 236 on the hall of fame apparently, but I have 1038 in play and apparently they don't count.

How many per team??

As an unofficial representative of FB Dip, how about we have a trial match against FB Dip? I was number 7 over there so could represent them against us.

How does Dip work as a team sport? Do you play anonymous? WTA (I assume??) Any other details I'm missing?

Can someone who's played tournament team diplomacy please advise how team dip actually works??

centurian: points in play surely don't count

...why not? If you counted up my centres I bet I have more than that even. Points invested are still assets in a portfolio.

I think it usually involves in a simple form 7 games with each person playing one game. Each team gets each country once. It becomes like team diplomacy because your in game play will be effected by what is happening in the other games so you can get your team the highest place on the standings.

points in play should count yet they don't

what about a national cup within this site?
we take the ghost rankings
lets just say no 1 is from USA, no 2 usa, no 3 uk, no 4 netherlands, no 5 uk etc no1 will represent usa, no 3 uk etc
we take the first 49 countries and they get represented by the top player with the same nationality in the ghost list.
preliminary round: 49 countries in 7 games
final: one game with the 7 winners
one problem is that we cant really know what nationality is each player
this can be solved by an email authentication phase (sending to the organizer a scan of your pass or id?)
also i don;t see why someone would like to play as a different nationality

rom my (limited) expierence of the world dip tournament, each team of 7 plays at 7 different tables (with each player getting a different country) So every team has to play italy and austria.

points are awarded usually based on some scheme, in some face-to-face tournaments they only play to 1906-8 due to time limitations, and it is basically like points-per-supply. I hope this tournament is more like WTA, with points awarded (to the team) for suvival.

Best overall team score is the winner.

or something like that.

I think that the best way to decide who gets to go to the tournament is League standings.

It really represents commitment to deadlines and ability to play with a tournament like mentality.

There is, however, a problem wich is exactly how do you do it?

Take all 7 Premier League players at the time? Take a similar approach to what will become the TGM Champions Trophy?

http://phpdiplomacy.tournaments.googlepages.com/thechampions%27trophy

maybe it should be a combination of the two? ghost rating and league standing? are there other factors to consider?

yeah people might not have played in the leagues or just joined after the first season etc i say just see who wants to play and look at points (in play as well) ghost rating and just general feelings towards how they play

trim, that's the worst idea ever.

You need to establish a clear method for choosing before the applicants are in, to avoid "meta-choosing".

For instance, an idea could be this:

Winner of the last League -> Second if the first doesn't want to
Winner of the previous League -> Second if the first doesn't want to
Winner of the GFDT -> Second if the first doesn't want to
Winner of the Masters -> Second if the first doesn't want to
Top 3 G-R rated players that apply.

some people don't choose to enter leagues as they are too busy to enter ever competition which comes their way, while they would dfinitely be interested in big competitions like a world series.

but perhaps those people should be on a B team anyway. I am in favour of just using Ghost-ratings (even if this means i wouldn't get to play)

i like xapi's idea, but i also agree with orathaic's point. we need to find a way that helps us measure that someone is not only a good player, but is also reliable. that's what's helpful about the league and tournament participation. ghost-ratings are helpful too, in measuring skill of players. what other ways can we measure that people are reliable? # of NMRs? # of games played?

since you can try agree what's most important (league participation, ghost ratings, number of games played etc), you are actually trying to establish a mathematical type to measure the genera; performance trim suggested. Good luck finding it. It will probably take up to the next millenium.