Hey Sniperdude. I use an Exel spreadsheet to do my setups and track the team. I would use Apple Numbers but Exel is more acceptable to more people. If you would like, I can post one of the exel spreadsheets for reference. It is pretty easy to follow but some of it may be hard to understand because I do things for me that may not be all that obvious. One side of the spreadsheet is where I do the team setup, and the other side is where I track it round to round so I can always see the overall ROI parity and balance and make adjustments in subsequent rounds to compensate for deviations. The round setup is the time consuming part and may seem daunting as I describe it, but after you do it a few times you get a feel for it. In a 4 person team each member selects a GB of theirs to use in the round. They can change this round to round if they like or keep the same one. I will make a spreadsheet section that has each GB along with its leveling info laid out in columns and rows and the owners name and what Arc bonus they have if any. The info includes the amount needed to level, and donations that already exist ( and we prefer there be none or very few), along with each of the 5 reward positions and what they payout for each GB. So I end up with 6 rows for each GB and 8 columns. The top row is just the owner name, amount needed to level, the level of the GB currently, any pre-existing donation amount and the Arc bonus percentage if any. This is my main reference row. The rows below correspond to the 5 reward positions, 1-5. The columns in order left to right are: Team member name who will donate for that position, the normal FP reward for the position, the FP reward with Arc bonus of the donating member (if no Arc bonus the normal number is used), the normal medal reward, the medal reward with Arc bonus, the normal BP reward, the BP rewards with Arc bonus, and the amount the member will donate for the position. The last column I color in light gray so it is easy to differentiate. Once I have this laid out, and when you do this often you can get pretty fast at doing it with copy paste, I lay out the plan for the round.
Each member is assigned a 1st place position on one of the other GBs, and each member is assigned a 2nd place and each one a 3rd place. This way the team as a whole captures all of the top 3 spots on all of the GBs in the team, and each member will get a 1st, 2nd and a 3rd. No member can donate to themselves, so you just find the pattern that works to get everyone the positions they should have. This is what I call the Targets, each member has their Target GBs and the positions they will take on them. Then I fill in the Arc Bonus FP reward column and use that number as my payout number for each of the positions. My handy desk calculator makes this easy and fast. Now I can calculate what I call the Assigns. Hence my terminology of Target Assigns in the process. The Assigns are based on the ROI (return on investment) as I use it. This is the FP donated divided by the FP rewarded (including any Arc Bonus). So a 100 FP donated with 25 rewarded is a ROI of 4.0. I do one GB at a time and find the best ROI that works for all the positions and still leaves a reasonable amount left over so others can get 4 and 5 positions without much fuss. The idea for me is to make the lower positions attractive so the GB owner will have as little as possible to self donate at the end to flip it. Finding this sweet spot takes some practice and several attempts, but as you do it more and more you get better at finding it pretty quick. I round up or down on the assigns to make them easy for the team, always making the assigns on the 10 or 5 mark. This variation off the actual ROI is easy to deal with later as I will explain. Once I have this for all the GBs and each one will have a different ROI, I grab my notepad and do some quick overall totals for the team. I list each member, the total they will be donating and the total FP they will be rewarded and what their overall ROI will be for the round. An Exel wiz could probably do this in the spreadsheet but I am old and like the analog way. If this shows a sizable difference in the ROI or total FP donated, I may have to rethink the Targets for each member to find a better balance, but I haven't had to do that for some time as I am pretty good these days at seeing the right Targets for the right members the first time but it can happen. If the balance is acceptable but the ROI is a bit further off from member to member, then I can make some adjustments by just shifting donation amounts in the Assigns from one member to another until I get them all as close as possible. They will never be exactly the same, but if I can keep them within .2 of each other then I can live with that and keep making Assign adjustments round to round to balance as I go. When I have the Target Assigns done and they are acceptable, I fill out the rest of the columns and then transfer that info to the other half of the spreadsheet for tracking. I track it all....medals, BPs, all of it so I can see and work to maintain as high a degree of parity and balance over time as I can. Then I post the new round info and off we go. I post 2 threads when I do a team, one for team communication and one for the Target Assigns as a reference thread. Of course there is more to this in a nuance sense of knowing and feeling out the right Target Assigns, and making accommodations for low level GBs that you want to levelup more than once in a round and other considerations, but that is it in a nutshell. It takes me about an hour or less now to reset a team so that is not bad I think and they all seem to work very well and the members are all quite happy with them. Hope this helps as a start.
