@Dorkupine, no there is no disadvantage to playing the occasional Sunday game if you normally can play only Wednesdays. Your Sunday Best 9 average will be hurt if you do not play in at least 9 Sunday games, but as you would not have been competing for the Sunday crown in any case, that doesn’t matter. Your Wednesday Best 9 will not be affected in any way by your Sunday play. And your Best 9 Overall will contribute to your Composite Best 9, so if you do better in one of your Sunday appearances than your 9th best Wednesday game, the Sunday play will help boost your Composite board score.
The system is designed to encourage players to play as often as they can, while still allowing players to miss up to 3 games on each weeknight without it harming their Best 9 Average. Yet, if you play more than 9 games, you can only help your average, so you have incentive to play as many games as you can, and you don’t need to consider sitting out games late in the quarter if you’re sitting on a high average and don’t want to risk hurting it by busting early.
Bottom line, play as often as you can, and play your best each time, and you will do the best that you can in the league, just as it should be.
What Badonkidonk meant by that is that a player who plays in fewer than 9 games on Sunday would have their points averaged as though they played 9 games, once 9 have been entered into the books for the quarter on Sunday.
Basically the way it works is like this: Weeks 1-9, your points are summed and divided by the number of games that have been held so far on that board. If you are absent for one of those 9 games, this means that you effectively get your average calculated as though there’s a zero acting as a placeholder for the game you missed.
Once we hit Week 10, players who have perfect attendance will see their Best 9 scores summed and divided by 9, resulting in a Best 9 Average, while players who have missed a game or two will have the final three games of the quarter to make up for the 0.
So if you can make all 12 games, your average will be boosted because you end up throwing out your bottom 3 games. If you miss a game, it’s one of those bottom 3 results that doesn’t count toward your average. If you miss more than 3 games, this will harm your Best 9 average on that board. But missing a Sunday game will not hurt your average on Wednesday, and vice versa, obviously.
But less obviously, if you are looking at the composite board, the 1/week players will have their Best 9 games come all from their weeknight that they play, while players who play 2/week will have their Best 9 overall calculated to make the Composite board average.
Since this means that 2/week players are effectively able to discard their bottom 15 games from their Composite Best 9 average, this should mean that they’ll have a considerable advantage over a 1/week player when it comes to the Composite board, but a very good 1/week player conceivably could still take a high enough average to contend for the Composite board crown, or advancement through Composite board points if they are in one of the lower tiers.
Since the Composite score is also used for purposes of relegation, there’s no detrimental effect to a normally 1/week player playing an occasional off-night game if they are available to do so.