PXF One Week Anniversary League Overview

Please take a few moments to review how the PXF One Week Anniversary League works! One very important note: we need your help to make this league work. See below for details.

How to get Tournament Histories from PokerStars

League Sign Up

As part of our one-year celebration, PokerXFactor is creating a special One Week Anniversary League that is open to anyone for free.

The PXF One Week Anniversary League starts Sunday, March 4 and runs thru Sunday March 11. You can join the league at anytime during the week -- so don't hesitate to register even if you miss the first few days. After you sign up, your results will be tracked and count towards the league standings.

If you are not a subscriber to PokerXFactor, then you simply need register for free at PokerXFactor, then register for the one week league.

If you are already a PokerXFactor subscriber, then just make sure you are registered for the normal PXF League and you will be automatically entered into the one week league.

League Structure and Overview

• Every single NL Hold'em tournament at PokerStars is an official "PXF League Qualifying Tournament" … typically 60 or more tournaments daily.
• One Week League participants' top 6 results from their first 25 tournaments played from Sunday, March 4th through Sunday, March 11th, will earn PXF One Week League Points. After you play 25 qualifying tournaments during the week, your results cannot earn more PXF Points. This takes away the advantage that a very high volume player would have over players who would only play 25 or less tournaments a week.
• It's that simple. Really.

Tracking and Verifying Results

It is critical that league participants help us verify Tournament IDs and results!

• PokerXFactor's goal is to help our subscribers improve via our videos and PXF Hand History Analyzer, as well us other features of our website. While there certainly may be benefits like these from the PXF League, it cannot be our main focus to track the results of hundreds of qualifying tournaments per month. We need your help.
  
  
• Each week, we will post the list of PokerStars Qualifying Tournaments. PXF Subscribers will then be asked to lookup the Tournament ID on PokerStars and add it the database. Tournament IDs show up late and scroll off quickly in the PokerStars software, so it is important that this information is added when it becomes available. TWO different subscribers must post the IDs for the tournament's ID to be considered "verified."
  
  
• After a tournament is played, then two different PXF subscribers will need to upload the results for the results to be considered to be "verified."
  
  To get results, you simply use the PokerStars software to have them emailed to you. Here is how:
  • Open up PokerStars and click on Requests, then select Tournament History.
  • Next, click the Tournament History radio button, put the Touranment ID into the blank text box, then click OK. They will send you the results by email.
  • Then you'll copy/paste those ENTIRE results into the form and upload. It's okay to include your personal statistics and all other information from these emails. Our software will strip it out and just grab the results.
  
  
• When you upload a Tournament ID or Tournament Result, you earn PXF Credits once it is verified (i.e., once two people have uploaded the exact same Tournament ID or Result). In early 2007, we'll be relaunching our PXF Credits Store (PXF Credits use to be called "PXF Points" but we changed it so it is not confused with PXF League Points).
  
  
• Also, when you upload Tournament IDs and Results, you earn good karma, at least one suck out in the next year, and our deep thanks.
  
  

League Prizes

The top scorer in the One Week League can submit a hand history of his or her choice and a PXF pro will analyze it and make a video offering feedback and commentary of it (the video will be made available to the winner and PXF subscribers). The top five scorers will receive a free one month subscription (or extension) to PokerXFactor.


Scoring Formula:

A few notes:
We think it is important that all PXF Subscribers have a chance to win this league. So our scoring system does not add a bonus for higher buy-in tournaments.

The tournaments with a huge number of players potentially can win our subscribers more PXF League points but our formula is designed, we believe, so ONE big win will not be enough to win the league (we've seen this on other ranking websites and other leagues).

Formula:
1. A tournament is worth int( 1000 * sqrt( paying_positions/100 )) points total.

Examples:
A Tournament that pays the top 100 players is worth 1000 points. A Tournament that pays the top 200 players is worth 1414 points. A Tournament that pays the top 400 players is worth 2000 points

2. Each player receives a number of points equal to the above value times the percentage of the money they won. For example, let's say you came in 3rd place in a tournament with 200 paying positions. Let's say third place pays $500 and the total prize pool is $10,000. Then the percentage of the total prize pool you won was $500/$10000 = 5%.

Continuing this example, because this tournament had 200 paying positions, it was worth 1,414 points total. Multiply that by the percentage of prize pool you won: 1414 x 5% = 70 points. Fractional points are not awarded.

The theoretical justification for increasing the number of points as the square root of the number of paying positions is that in a random sampling from a Gaussian distribution the standard deviation changes with the square root of the sample size. So, if you win a tournament with 100 paying positions that is in some sense twice as good as winning a tournament with 25 paying positions, not 50.

Also, by using the square root of the number of paying positions we avoid having situations where coming in first in a tournament with thousands of paying positions simply ends the contest by making it impossible for anyone else to win. By using the square root of paying positions such a tournament is worth more points than a tournament with fewer paying positions, but not so many more as to be dominating. By using this method several final table finishes in smaller tournaments would outweigh a single first place win in a large tournament, so it rewards consistent high placement as opposed to a single "home run".