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Mr. Sandman · 08-24-2007, 08:32 AM

Well just to keep the debate going, Internet teams with thousands of members spread across a wide geographic area have the potential to assemble a massive army of fishermen (good, bad or otherwise), which can drawf the smaller local clubs. In the Shaffer days there was no Internet teams, just local clubs. Imagine a team with a 1000 fishermen spread from NJ to MA culling the best 10 fish vs a team of a dozen or two fishermen from a local club fishing the same area. Who do you think has an advantage? Statistically there is a strong advantage to the team with the largest numbers.
You don't have to take draconian measures and limit team size at all...rather normalize the score based on team size so that the score reflects an equivalent team size. I don't know if this is the case at all and it may not be an issue but the way I see it allow a mega teams with out normalizing discourages smaller teams from even entering.

08-24-2007, 08:32 AM	#95
Mr. Sandman Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 7,649	Well just to keep the debate going, Internet teams with thousands of members spread across a wide geographic area have the potential to assemble a massive army of fishermen (good, bad or otherwise), which can drawf the smaller local clubs. In the Shaffer days there was no Internet teams, just local clubs. Imagine a team with a 1000 fishermen spread from NJ to MA culling the best 10 fish vs a team of a dozen or two fishermen from a local club fishing the same area. Who do you think has an advantage? Statistically there is a strong advantage to the team with the largest numbers. You don't have to take draconian measures and limit team size at all...rather normalize the score based on team size so that the score reflects an equivalent team size. I don't know if this is the case at all and it may not be an issue but the way I see it allow a mega teams with out normalizing discourages smaller teams from even entering. Last edited by Mr. Sandman; 08-24-2007 at 08:39 AM..