Our business is built on fairness, period. It suffers whenever we are anything but fair. Even when we ARE fair, it can be perceived as favoritism. Here's the example for that. Suppose the LO did absolutely nothing manually and simply entered data from the scoresheets. No reviews, just whatever comes out comes out. Would you consider that fair? Everyone treated the same, right? I guarantee you that 100% of the time if the LO did that he/she would be accused of playing favorites, even if he/she had never met the supposed "favorites" in person! Why? Because no matter what happens, someone wins and someone loses, and it's just a matter of time before the "playing favorites" accusation arises.
Everyone who has ever run a league for a considerable length of time has been accused of being unfair or playing favorites. Not just APA and not just pool. It comes with the territory and you just have to accept that the losers will complain. Once in a while someone will have a legitimate beef, but those are easy to distinguish among the myriad of complaints that are just sour grapes.
You can come up with examples for whatever you want. Make them vague enough and they will be believable. What I tell people to do is put names to their "examples", so I can actually look into their claims. You would be surprised how many of them refuse to associate a name with a complaint. Or would you?
Sure, lets start with your name and how to get a hold of you outside this forum.
Player A - Skill level 4-
Session 1 has a 2.2 points per match average
Next Session has a 2.3 point per match average wins MVP.
I personally saw him beat a sl7 during this session. How does
Player 3 not go up.
Now this session he/she has played 6 matches with a zero PPM
Where do you think this is going. APA tools didn't catch this one.
Player B -Skill level 3
Session 1 has a 2 PPM average at end of session goes up to a sl4
Next session has a 1 PPM average goes down to a 3 in week16 just in time for play off
Week 2 of next session is back up to a 4, week 3 is back to a 3, week 7 a 4, week 10 a 3, week 13 a 4
Team XYZ a year ago
Player 1 Skill Level 6
Player 2 Skill Level 5
Player 3 Skill Level 5
Player 4 Skill Level 5
Player 5 Skill Level 5
Player 6 Skill Level 4
Player 7 Skill Level 5
As you can see they exceed the 23 point rule with 5 players
Player 7 was dropped and a Skill level 4 was added
Player 8 was added is a Skill Level 3
So after a Summer session of throwing matches in the Fall session to the current session it went like this:
Player 2 in week 7> sl4 week13 >sl5, week14>sl4, week 16>sl5 , week4>sl4 week7>sl5, week9>sl4, week13>sl5
Player 3 in week7>4, week14>5,
Player 4 in week8>4, and remains a 4
Player1 in week 4 of Spring session >5, week5>6,week7>5,week8>6, week11>5, week12>6
Compare this skill level movement to the teams in your division