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Rules of thumb: If I remember this correctly; Long arms, long legs and no body generally means in terms of fit you'll end up most comfortable with a shorter toptube but with your bars lower than your saddle else you put a lot of unnecessary weight through your arms. Do you run full saddle height when you play?
if you carry most of your weight in your upper body you should be running a slacker than average seat-angle and if most of your weight is in your legs you should be running steeper.
I also second what Oz says, keep your headtube long. In frontal impacts with a short headtube the forks make the headtube want to pivot around the point the tubes intersect. In other words snap right off.
I hate rules of thumb. Gah!
I'm off to the pub, g'night