02-23-2019, 08:34 PMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: I haven't really done many PbP's lately but when I last did, it felt like the incentives were a bit off. Like, you could do the most engaging TPE and well-written PBP ever but if you didn't include some silly gifs or pics, you would get docked points. On the other hand I quite regularly saw people phoning it in with really boring PBPs, but they met all the formal requirements and therefore got the max payout. Not sure if it still works that way, but that's what I remember from a few seasons back.

Ultimately, people have different styles and different preferences and I think PBPs are one area where this discrepancy can be particularly big. Some like the more "storytelling" style PBPs with long pre-written write-ups and relatively few posts per period, whereas others prefer the more action-style, color-commentary PBPs with many short posts and I think both approaches are valid. We should have a grading system that can account for these different styles, so probably a rather flexible one with not too many formal requirements, but a relatively strong "manual" grading component where the grader judges if the person doing the PBP has actually put in any effort or just copied stuff out of the boxscore. I'm fine with PBPs paying a lot as long as they are good, so I think our grading scale should reflect that. Make it possible to earn 6-8 TPE but don't make it guaranteed, so weaker PBPs only pay 3-5 TPE. Which is still a really good payout since its TPE that moster other people won't be able to get at all.

Great post dude there is an art to pbps that lies more in getting the right graders. You have the right idea