Thanks to Chris Draper and Andy’s Parents for hosting this week!  Scores are up in the usual place, and the season is closer than ever.  Chris Draper and David Newman are tied for the lead, and Mike Cuzzupe is only one point behind, so every week can make a difference from here on out.  Mike is leading the most improved race though, so it’s a reasonably close race all around. 

Next week we’re at Luch’s place-have a great week everyone!

Thanks to Kim for hosting this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and Mike C and Chris Draper are still fighting it out for the top spot.  Mike has a pretty healthy lead in on the Most Improved side of things, but there’s still a lot of pinball left to play this season. 

We’re at Andy’s place next Monday-have a great week everyone!

Thanks to Adam for hosting this week (with a brand new Iron Maiden to boot)!  Scores are up here, and it’s shaping up to be a pretty close race for the season.  Mike Cuzzupe is still out in the lead, but not by a huge margin, so it’s still anyone’s to win. 

For those that didn’t see the sign/donation jar at Adam’s this week, Adam and Denise have a rescue kitten that they’re trying to find a home for.  If you’re interested, you can get in touch with them directly (email me if you need their address).

We’re out at Kim’s place next Monday-have a great week everyone!

Thanks to Scott and the rest of the crew at the Pint for getting everything set up for us this week!  The location seems great, and hopefully it helps expand the reach of pinball even further in the city.  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and it’s shaping up to be a close race this season. 

Remember that we still have the shirts available for pre-order, and that you need to order these (and pay for them) in advance. 

Have a great week, and see everyone at Adam’s on Monday!

Thanks to Jim for hosting this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and it’s still early, so there’s not a whole lot to add other than that if the season were decided today, Mike C is ahead after 2 weeks.  There’s still a lot of pinball to play though!

Next week we’re back out in public at Tilt, so if you know someone who hasn’t made it out before, it’s a great location to check out that’s more transit-accessible than most of our locations.  Have a great week everyone!

Welcome to a new TOPL season!  Thanks to Luch for hosting this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site.  Feedback on the changes we instituted last season has been almost all positive, so we’re planning on doing the same thing this season (including playoffs at P1 week 14-thanks Jerry!).  Just to clarify a couple of things that might not have been messaged really well at the end of the season, WPPR points are based on the entire season (weeks 1-13), as are the Season Champ, Most Improved, and Handicap awards.  Playoffs in week 14 have the playoff champ trophy as well as cash prizes. 

Next week we’re playing at Jim’s place-have a great week everyone!

Thanks to Walt for opening up Bluffs for us this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, which officially wraps up the regular season for Summer 2018.  First off, Congrats to Charles for winning the Season Championship for the first time in several years!  He takes home the trophy as well as a replay into next season.  Adam Hollander also had a great season, taking both the handicap and the most improved awards, narrowly beating out Chris Draper, who also had a fantastic season this year.  Trophies will be available at the beginning of next season. 

Next Monday is the season playoffs at the Player One showroom(6420 Viscount Road Mississauga, NOT the old location off the 401).  For this event, doors open at 6pm, and we’re aiming to have food there for 6:30.  We’ll still aim to start the tournament at 8 if you can’t make it until then, but it’ll at least give everyone a chance to play some games and get something to eat before starting.  Based on the number of players we had this season, we’re splitting 12 players in A, and everyone else in B.  Right now A division looks like this:

1    Charles Blaquiere
2    Chris Draper
3    Kirk Hutton
4    Mike Faria
5    Adam Hollander
6    Andrew Aiken
7    Andy McNab
8    Josh Zilberberg
9    David Newman
10    Myles Cameron
11    Andrew Lounsbury
12    Les Kowal

If anyone on that list can’t make it, we’ll keep going down the list to fill out the division.  Both A and B are going to work like this:

• 4p Match Play groups with standard 7-5-3-1 scoring
• 1 game per round, with groups getting re-balanced after each round
• Swiss groups-similar win/loss records get put together.  The best players have to beat the best players
• The top 4 after 4 rounds go into a single elimination bracket to determine the division champ!

Hope to see everyone out next Monday-it should be a good time!

Hey everyone, I didn’t send out an email for the week 12 scores because I was trying to get the Most Improved standings fixed once and for all.  Some of you may have noticed that they were already up in the usual place, but as a few of you have pointed out, the percentages for Most Improved have been off.  The reason for this is because of the changes we made to the scoring system for calculating Most Improved:

9.3  Most Improved
The Most Improved Award is based on a player’s Season Performance Percentage (SPP) improvement over their Lifetime Performance Percentage (LPP).  The player with the largest improvement wins the Most Improved Award, and will be awarded a Replay into the next season.  For the purposes of this award, a player’s SPP is calculated on the player’s best 10 scores (13 total minus 3 dropped scores).  A player’s LPP is calculated over the previous six TOPL seasons or two calendar years (whichever is longer), and do not need to be consecutive.  A new player is eligible to be considered for this award in their 2nd season.

So the percentage shown on the main standings page is using the old format (counting all played weeks), while the one on the improvement leaderboard is filtering out your dropped weeks, but counting everything else (including missed weeks after 3). The reason for this was to try to correct for people winning the Most Improved award by not showing up to league events.  We’re also comparing against a lifetime percentage vs a previous 2 seasons, since we now have the data to do so.  Sorry for the confusion on this, and thanks to everyone who pointed out that there was something wrong with the percentages.  Also, a big thank you to Joe Schober (from the FSPA), who’s the developer behind the league manager software that we use.  He’s been incredibly generous with his time in building this software for leagues to use, and implementing changes for us like the Most Improved calculations, handicap system, and IFPA style scoring.  

Also, just a couple of notes on the end of the season, and what’s going on over the next couple of weeks.  Monday we’re playing week 13 at Bluffs, which is now the last “regular season” week of the summer.  At that point, we’ll have the scores for the Most Improved, Season Champ (highest adjusted points total), and Pinball Wizard (handicap) awards.  We’ll also know how many players qualify for each playoff division the following Monday at Player One (A is the top 50% of players who have played at least 7 weeks, B is everyone else).  Playoff rounds will be a hybrid of a regular league night and the tournament from last season.  We’ll be doing 4p match play rounds, re-balancing groups after each of 4 rounds to determine the top 4.  We’ll then put the top 4 through a single elimination final to determine the playoff champ.  B division works the same way.  Once we’re through next week, I’ll post lists of qualified players and information on the payouts.

We’re also still looking at doing a separate standalone tournament on a weekend later in the year, but the end of August is already getting pretty crowded.  The weekend we’d normally use is already the CNE tournament, which we don’t want to get in the way of.  If you can make it downtown, this is set up to become the biggest tournament in Canada, and entry is free with CNE admission. 

Thanks to Nick for hosting this week, and thanks to Jeremy for bringing out his custom game for everyone to check out!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and it looks like Charles still has a narrow lead on Chris Draper for the season champ.  Also, it looks like the Most Improved percentages are messed up, but we’re looking into it.  I’ll let everyone know when they’re fixed. 

Good luck to everyone going down to Pinburgh this weekend!  We’re back for more TOPL at Andy’s place on Monday.

Thanks to Kim for hosting this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and Charles and Chris Draper continue to fight for position at the top of the standings, while Draper and Adam Hollander are tied with the handicap taken into consideration.  Also, there does seem to be an issue with some of the most improved percentages, but we’re looking into it. 

We’re back out to Nick’s place next week-have a great week everyone!