HOW IT WORKS
Fair and balanced play
OCE Draft league format focuses on fair and balanced play across the entire tournament. We achieve this through a unique rating system comprising of objective and subjective data sources to separate players into competitive divisions, and rating players within a division to a salary level for team managers to account for in a carefully crafted budget limit.
Council and Ratings
A select team of community regulars are set-up to rate the registrations from 'best' to 'worst' in an organised list. The members can not see each others votes, and are advised to NOT communicate their choices with other council members.
The results, along with objective statistics from information such as ranked MMR are averaged together to create a rated list of players from top to bottom in terms of skill level.
Now, this isn't a perfect system. We encourage anyone with ideas for better solutions to contact us with a total solution.
If I implement it, I may even pay you!
Divisions and Salary
The rated playerbase is split among 3 divisions, usually 1/3rd each division. Within these divisions, players are assigned a "Salary" value, with the top players of the division being worth more than bottom players, but the split is favoured more towards the cheaper/lower end making the standout players more finite.
Teams will have a "Salary Cap", and must draft their 4 players within this "Salary Cap". The salary caps are designed to limit top end use of budget, potentially compromising middle-pack strength for a higher-end player, in an effort to balance selection between teams.
Each division and its teams compete in their own league and playoffs to earn their own prizepools.
Free Agents and Transfer Windows
Throughout the season, Team Managers have opportunities to drop and pick-up different players in Transfer Windows, to increase the teams chances of success. Team Managers can not drop a whole team and start from scratch, they only get up to 2 drops per transfer window, and their pick-ups must still fit within the Salary Cap.
Players being dropped must have played at least one series, and 2 series if they are to go into playoffs, so anyone picked up will get a go on the pitch. This stops teams using lower rated players on the bench all season.
Free Agents are the players who may not have been originally drafted, but are available for pickup during these transfer windows. Just because you aren't on a team in week 1 doesn't mean you won't get to play!
