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Post by Roscoe, TFFN Reporter (Ret) on Jun 1, 2010 15:12:17 GMT
[glow=red,2,300][shadow=red,left,300][/shadow][/glow]After 9 months in which 36 different posers made a total of 2495 posts between them, the final TTPL Tables are now in ( cue frankiegth on drumroll.....) TEN-POT ELITE LEAGUE1 amber 478 2 robotsmfc 259 3 sultan 228 4 isihac 167 5 daza b 165 6 frankiegth163 7 meadow 124 8 Loy PRA 121 9 Peekay 97 10 jEsag PRA 75 So it's congratulations to Ambersalamander, over 200 clear of the second-placed robot. Amber also won every monthly award bar April when the Sultan of Cannock got on top. The mid-table race was nip-and-tuck throughout until Colonel ISIHAC finally shook off both frankiegth and dazab on the very last day. Peekay held on comfortably in the end while [J Esag PRA[/b] in his various guises was the PRA’s 2nd representative in the Elite. TEN-POT NEXT TEN1 Aleman. 71 2 bh. 66 3 coops. 58 4 votp 54 5 davesrcfc 50 5 medibot 49 7 regan 41 8 giggy 39 9 thevicar 38 10 roscoe 36 A total spread of 35 postings separated 1st from tenth amongst the lesser lights (in the nicest possible way) though amberaleman may be left to rue for the rest of his days that Elite status was within his grasp... Davetscfc achieved upper-mid table security on the scoreboard, but in the unlikely event of a TTPL 2010/11 going ahead will find himself relegated 2 divisions. NON-LEAGUE1 cuckoo 28 2 loudefc 22 3. sirlagerlot 21 4. ifreakinrule15 5. Big mark 13 6. skif 13 7. readinglad. 12 8. ojiveojive 6 9. croc 3 10. Leeds WCFC2 10. mrwbahat2 After briefly leading the whole bang-shoot back in August, jimmythecuckoo gradually slid down to lead the clutch of more occaisional visitors to the TTPL. ONE-HIT WONDERSThe following people burned brightly across the TTPL firmament like meteorites for a few brief moments before fading out of sight, never to be heard from again. what did we do wrong? dougsson 1 MiB TFC 1 old wimbledonian1 sweenyhammer1 tchiky 1 Finally, a big thank you to the one Tinpotter who helped out with this, Sultan of Cannock.
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Post by AFC J Esaj PRA on Jun 1, 2010 18:32:42 GMT
I think my total of 75 posts puts me 10th in the Elite division, but I guess it wouldn't be tinpot if the tables weren't fixed in some way.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 1, 2010 19:07:54 GMT
9 months in which 37 different posers made a total of 2495 posts between them *snigger*
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jun 2, 2010 11:34:28 GMT
[Amber also won every monthly award bar April when the Sultan of Cannock got on top Fnarrr!!!! Jase, only you know why there were two of you!
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Post by Roscoe, TFFN Reporter (Ret) on Jun 4, 2010 20:42:10 GMT
I think my total of 75 posts puts me 10th in the Elite division, but I guess it wouldn't be tinpot if the tables weren't fixed in some way. No, AFC j-esag PRA totalled 26 postings for 2nd place in the non league, while J-esag PRA totalled 49 for equal 5th in the ten-pot next 10. Look back through the postings and two separate entities appear. What you're saying is tantamount to, say, Sheffield United and Wednesday, one missing out on promotion and the other going down trying to say to the League, "Well, actually, our combined total of 112pts makes Sheffield champions." As someone who has made no end of mistakes in his life, i can feel sympathetic for the crushing disappointment you must be enduring right now, but unfortunately the gun was aimed squarely at your own foot when you fired it old bean.
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Post by AFC J Esaj PRA on Jun 8, 2010 12:08:22 GMT
Actually, it'd be like splitting the points Wimbledon got in the Conference last season, just because some people chose to use the AFC prefix and others didn't when recording the results! Or splitting the points gained by Havant & Waterlooville, Havant & Waterlooville FC, Havant and Waterlooville FC AND Havant and Waterlooville. Four relegations in one season would be a lot for a club to cope with! ;D The two are an identical entity: J Esaj. (Technically, the PRA bit is in parenthesis too, but that gets mangled by ProBoards...) Remember I only highlighted the AFC when it became apparent that alphabetical ordering was being (incorrectly) used to sort the tables. It worked too, as I often went up a place. It is all a bit 'tinpot' in my book.
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Post by Roscoe, TFFN Reporter (Ret) on Jun 8, 2010 15:59:16 GMT
Remember I only highlighted the AFC when it became apparent that alphabetical ordering was being (incorrectly) used to sort the tables. It worked too, as I often went up a place. It is all a bit 'tinpot' in my book. Bloody hell, it's hard work with some people isn't it? Alphabetical order was never used to actually sort the tables. You neither went up nor down a place based on it, tinpotters were given an equal ranking. For instance, if no.10 and no.11 tinpotters had the same number of postings, they were ranked equally in either the elite or the next-ten, not split between the divisions on alphabetical order. Do try and keep up! Of course it was all a bit tinpot, that was the whole bloody point of it, just to try and get a bit of extra interest and a few more new topics on here. Besides, you had the had the chance to have your input into the TTPL same as everyone else on here and same as everyone else bar one you chose to stay on the sidelines so tough.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 8, 2010 17:24:13 GMT
Roscoe, you are lovely. Do keep it up!
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Post by frankiegth on Jun 8, 2010 21:27:32 GMT
You just have to be imaginative with your posts to up your tally, like my show stealing world famous "wood preserver" post.
It's the difference between a place in europe and an early start in the inter-toto cup. ;D
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Post by AFC J Esaj PRA on Jun 9, 2010 12:04:44 GMT
Bloody hell, it's hard work with some people isn't it? It's as hard as you want to make it... Of course it was all a bit tinpot, that was the whole bloody point of it... Exactly, so which aspect of the smilies are you choosing to ignore? What was it you said? "Bloody hell, it's hard work with some people isn't it? " Alphabetical order was never used to actually sort the tables. Really? Why is it then that those on equal points were invariably listed in alphabetical order? Look, the BBC do it, Sky Sports do it, even the bloomin' leagues themselves do it, but the sequence of competitors should never be arranged in alphabetical order in a league table. When no games have been played, or the competitors cannot be separated by the results of games played, their relative position in a table is not determined; it is in fact random. Just saying like, but that's the truth of it. It is totally your choice how to implement things, just as it is totally my choice to comment on it or not. (Being a tinpot forum, I did actually think a few of you would like the idea that everyone gets this wrong, as it marks out the 'big players' as totally tinpot. You could continue to parody their error, or poke them in the eye by getting it right even though this is the most irrelevant table in the world.) I'll leave others to decide on the merits of artificially reviving a dead horse with inane guff.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 9, 2010 15:40:28 GMT
Jase, Roscoe is not the BBC or Sky Sports and ffs, it's only the Tinpot Terrace Posters' League, give the guy a break You may be joking, but IMHO you're taking it all a bit seriously for someone who's only joking, old bean
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jun 9, 2010 19:42:12 GMT
Look, the BBC do it, Sky Sports do it, even the bloomin' leagues themselves do it, but the sequence of competitors should never be arranged in alphabetical order in a league table. Why not When no games have been played, or the competitors cannot be separated by the results of games played, their relative position in a table is not determined; it is in fact random. So wot They say that the dividing line between genius and madness is an extemely thin one.. ;D
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Post by AFC J Esaj PRA on Jun 10, 2010 12:55:04 GMT
Well, I'm not joking, bit it is a tinpot distinction so seems to fit what this site is about? Or is it just for a select clique to play at being toffs?
'Roscoe' has been given a break several times (seemingly ignored), but shirley generating posts by any means is what the whole tinpot league tables were about in the first place?
Sultan - good man, but you're asking the wrong question. Take the opposite view – why should Alteringham be listed above Wrexham in a table based on performances in football games if their performance is equal? Is it fair that Scaffold always start the season one place further down the league since tinpot Telford decided to add the AFC? Fight for your rights man - Scaffold should have an equal chance of being listed first before a ball is kicked.
Is it important? Of course not, it's totally tinpot!
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Post by frankiegth on Jun 10, 2010 16:06:30 GMT
The line between madness and genius is indeed a very fine one.
I'm THAT CLOSE to being a genius. ;D
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Post by ambersalamander on Jun 11, 2010 8:51:44 GMT
;D
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