Tourney Changing structure mid-season? (1 Viewer)

[krafticus]

First, a little background on my game.

I run a monthly tournament (it's a hybrid league) in which I use a formula to calculate points based on your exit position. Those points accumulate over the course of 11 games, and will become your starting stack for the final free-roll game. I average 32-36 players per month. The top 36 players with points and at least 2 games attended are invited to the final game. Starting stacks range from 26k to 8k for that event.

(if you want to know, the formula is [ (ROUND(LOG(($F$3+5)/A8,10)*100,0)*15)*2 ] where F3 is total number of entries and rebuys and A8 is player rank. 100 points for each knockout is added to your score as well.

Per the title, I'd like to do a test run of a different structure and see if it plays better over the course of the evening. I would only do 1 game this season with this modified structure, and if it achieves the goal I'm looking for (shorter game while bringing a bit more play), I'd use this structure full time for the following season.

My current structure is a T10K stack plus bounty (plus 1k for early arrivals); 12x25, 12x100, 5x500, 6x1000. 1 rebuy per person for the 1st 5 levels for the same price as a starting stack.

I'd like to include the BB ante into the event, and start at the 100/100/100 level while upping the starting stack to 20k. This allows for generally the same depth and playability but with the ante. I'd use the WSOP (or similar) structure that I've used for the satellite events I've hosted in the past.

Sure, I know it's my game and I can do what I want, but I don't want to mess things up too. Do you think changing the structure for 1 event could provide for uneven results and such? I'd calculate the points the same for for now, but if it works and I change to this structure next season, I'll update my scoring formula to account for the change is starting stack size.

Thanks

 

[BigGrizz]

I think it the opposite. I like hosting a variety of games and structures. High roller, big bounty, freezeout, deepstack, non-elimination, etc. My last tournament was a standard tournament. 25k stack, 1 included reentry. My next one is a deepstack 50k. The one after that I'm thinking about a non-elimination tournament where seats get scrambled each hour and chip count determines position after 4 hours. Rebuys are unlimited and included. I'm thinking of making it zombie themed.

I've started keeping league points and its a simple formula. You get 1 point for every player you beat +1 for playing at all. My thought is once I develop it, we can have 3 league titles to play for. Points champion, bounty hunter, and final tournament champion.

I say have fun with it. Mix it up. I think you're a little too cooped up when you are worried about introducing and ante and doubling the starting stack as something to be nervous about. If anything, I would adjust your scoring system to be possibly be simpler.

 

[HiveKueen]

So my seasons are 8 games long and we usually complete a season in 10 weeks tops. I did introduce a new “casino night” blind structure for two games in The current season and will intro at least one more structure variation for the next season. My limiting factor is keeping the game within a 4.5 hour window since we play on Thursday nights.

 

[chippitydoodah]

So my seasons are 8 games long and we usually complete a season in 10 weeks tops. I did introduce a new “casino night” blind structure for two games in The current season and will intro at least one more structure variation for the next season. My limiting factor is keeping the game within a 4.5 hour window since we play on Thursday nights.

10 weeks or 10 months?

 

[HiveKueen]

10 weeks or 10 months?

10 weeks. We play weekly

 

[Jaxen]

We do different things with the blinds/seating/format/buy-in nearly every event: standard, 6-max tables, WSOP 1990s ME structure, 2020s structure, rebuys (get below 1/2 starting stack? throw us more money we'll throw you more chips for the 1st 3 levels, everyone can add-on at the break for varying amounts), NLHE/PLO mixed, Stud/NLHE mixed, and we do cash games for tourney points through the season.
What stays the same is the points formula: square root of the prize pool/finishing position + 1. More points for winning a higher buy in or better attended event.

 

[Knoxymoron]

I like mixing it up to an extent. My league season is 12 tournaments long and mostly standard freezeouts but I'll mix in a couple rebuys. I've also been known to insert a turbo, a resurrection, and even a couples night. Next I plan on doing a mega stack tournament. The game is always NLHE and the point system is always the same. If I want to make a change to the point system it will have to wait until the next season.

 

[Avannah]

We do different things with the blinds/seating/format/buy-in nearly every event: standard, 6-max tables, WSOP 1990s ME structure, 2020s structure, rebuys

Curious about what your WSOP 1990s structure looks like, is it that different from a normal structure?

 

[Jaxen]

Curious about what your WSOP 1990s structure looks like, is it that different from a normal structure?

I realized it's actually more from the mid-2000s when the Main Event starting stack was still 200BBs after they increased to 2x the buy-in. We took a zero off everything and use 16 minute levels, so where they started with a 20k stack at blinds of 50-100, we start at 2000 and 5-10 (we started this when our only set had mostly T5s and 25s), with a couple levels refined for convenience (75-150 should be 80-160 but that's a crappy multiple, hence the 60-125). Doesn't use the big blind ante (for our own reasons). With 14-18 players this ends around 400-800.