I discussed how I organized my initial parings of the league on a few posts ago.

Well yesterday I was contacted by another member of my gaming club who wanted to join the league, he had wanted to talk to me about it last week but had a family emergency that had taken priority.  So I sat down and tried to work out a way to place a 13^th player into my league.

The current system had 12 players playing 11 games and playing everyone.  With 13 players this math’s doesn’t work as well. After some long thought I weighed the idea of adding another round to the game. But this would have meant that 10 of the players would end up playing someone twice..

What I eventually decided that in each round I would randomly select two of the original 12 players to play the newcomer and add this to the ‘fixture list’.   Now this was going to leave one player who the newcomer never played. As chance would have it one of the original 12 players has just had a baby, and was worried that he wouldn’t be able to play all of his games with the restrictions of the league. So I decided to pair them both together in a special ‘wild card round’. The game could be of any size and needed to be done by the end of round 6.  

I think this is the best way to solve this complex issue. Does anyone have a better plan?