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Guys I'm not looking to change the points system, I'm just after a consensus for default points for missed entrants, we are in the nays here so the competition will continue same as always.

Consensus on this forum?

There was one race - I forget which, where my top 10 picks were all bang on for the grid. However come the race I didn't do especially well. Have a look at how often the grid matches the finishing order..

I'm also assuming there would be a large enough penalty to discourage people doing it too often. if not 35 then maybe 50?

One big thing I would have against it is that it takes away the skill from the game, you might as well have a robot playing for you, and you could have several people doing it so your not actually standing out from the crowd, were is the achievement?

In this regard the size of the penalty doesn't matter it would be just as much of a case as people not actually playing the game.

Maybe the once per season bit in my proposal is a bit too stingy, but some limit on the number of times people can miss a round and still get points seems fair to me.

There has never been a rule that you can't compete if you miss a round so I don't that it really needs mentioning in the rule?

Much thanks for running this again pokerman. Very much appreciate the work you do.

Cheers, I noticed you missed the last round?

Exediron - out of my 7 times, when I received penalty and what pokerman also highlighted - total 123-points (6x18p + 1x15p) - I can conclude it only served me well 1 time (Monaco, if remembering well) - there I gained more than penalty took away after changing.
All others I have lost or pretty much same outcome.
The greatest backfire came from Baku - everybody scored so few points and then having -18p from already low scores hit especially hard!

So my conclusion is that I would not pursue that approach next season (although I didn´t change every time intentionally - many times I just forgot and had to bear with it).

tim3003 - your idea of having median/2 for particular weekend scores for all forgetters is I think good one.
pokerman - I am also in favor of hard-stop deadline after missing qualifying start (and not -35p or else).

Yeah, got really busy and distracted that weekend. Wasn't able to even watch the race until Tuesday.

Yeah as Exediron makes the point maybe people who sometimes find themselves with time constraints should be putting in banker entries days before, these can always be edited later.

I think I will take his advice and suggest this prior to the start of next season, it really would be advisable for a few players to do this who consistently have time problems close to the weekend.

How would you feel about a "universal banker" that you can put in before the start of the season and will automatically be applied in the absence of any championship round entry?