Best Season Elevator = The manager who has the most total points in one particular season gets his score elevated by the percentage that he beat the next best season. (Note: Reward based off of how high he beat any 1st place score, not any 2nd place score.)
�For Example: Say the most dominant season was a score of 5,579 and the next best score was 4,997. The 5,579 score was roughly 10% higher than the 4,997 score. And so, the manager who scored 5,579 gets his League score increased by 10% (say a score of 85, now equals 94).
Most Dominant Season Elevator = The manager who has the most dominant single season over the second place player in that same year is also awarded the same type of increase in his league score whereby it is the percentage over that 2nd place player.
�For Example: Say the first place winner had that score of 5,579 and the 2nd place player had a lowly score of 3,850. That managers score (again, say 85) would be increased by 39% (to 118). Obviously this example is extreme, one would expect the race to be a lot closer, but at the very least, this gives large implications on perhaps that final year in a close League Points race.
If one manager should win both elevator awards, the higher percentage (in the above case 39%) is tallied on first, and the lower one (above is 10%) is tallied on second. And so, in the example above, the manager with the score of 5,579 would have elevated his score to 131.
APPENDIX (added 09.19.07):
"Daddy" and "Bitch" Elevators = At the end of the season each team is assigned a "Daddy" and "Bitch" Rival.
For the next season, a team gets extra points towards their Final Score (i.e. the score for the league prize) or gets subtracted points depending on how they finish relative to their rivals.
1.) If a team finishes above his DADDY rival AND improves his score from the previous year, he is awarded a certain amount of points based on where he ranked the previous season
2.) If a team finishes below his BITCH rival AND declines his score from the previous year, he is subtracted a certain amount of points based on where he ranked the previous season
After each season new rivals will be assigned based on where a team finishes for that year.
THE FOLLOWING POINT TOTALS WILL BE AWARDED TO TEAMS WHO IMPROVE AND FINISH ABOVE THEIR DADDY RIVAL:
If 2nd improves over 1st - .25
3rd over 2nd - .5
4th over 3rd - 1
5th over 4th - 2
6th over 5th - 4
7th over 6th - 6
8th over 7th - 8
9th over 8th - 10
THE FOLLOWING POINT TOTALS WILL BE SUBTRACTED FROM TEAMS WHO DECLINE AND FINISH BELOW THEIR BITCH RIVAL:
If 1st falls below 2nd - (-)2.5
2nd below 3rd - 2
3rd below 4th - 1.5
4th below 5th - 1
5th below 6th - .5
6th below 7th - .25
7th below 8th - .1
8th below 9th - .05