[TFDA] Spring League - *NEW FORMAT!* Core/draft league

T t-roy at mindspring.com
Fri Feb 15 22:36:13 EST 2008


TFDA Spring League this year is going to use a new system of forming 
teams. Introducing the "core" concept to the Triangle, each team will be 
allowed to show up to the draft with a group of 8 
players/friends/ringers/teammates already pre-determined. This core 
needs to have 5 men and 3 women and there will be an experience point 
cap based on Thuy's savage seven rating system that most of us are 
familiar with. The details of this system are included below.

Don't stress over the details, the point of all this is to give everyone 
a chance to play with a group of friends that they were able to choose!

Can't find a core? No problem! There will still be a draft and everyone 
will end up on a team.

Registration is not yet open, but we wanted to go ahead and announce the 
format so you could start forming your cores. Every player will still 
register separately, with those on the same core indicating a team name 
or captain when they register. The registration deadline is March 1, 
11:59pm. If someone from your core doesn't register in time, the League 
Commissioner, Troy Revell, will assign someone from the draft of 
similar/less experience.

$42 gets you a 6-game schedule, a jersey, a disc, and a 2-day tourney.

Games will be at 10am and noon. We'll also have 2pm games if the league 
is large enough.

Games will be played at Efland-Cheeks field, located here:
http://tfda.org/Reference/Efland.htm

2008 Spring League Schedule
March 1 Registration deadline
March 8 Draft
March 15 Game 1
March 22 Game 2
March 29 Game 3
April 5 Game 4 (site to be determined)
April 12 Game 5
April 19 Game 6
April 26 Crossover or make-up
May 3 & 4 Tournament

CORE/DRAFT EXPERIENCE GORY DETAILS
Each core can have up to a total of 32 experience points for its 5 men 
and 3 women. The men's total cannot be higher than 24. There are a few 
changes to Thuy's system. It only goes back two fall seasons, not three. 
The age adjustment for women has been lowered, but the age deductions do 
not apply to 6 point men or women. Junior worlds/nationals and non US 
worlds/nationals count for something.

When we do the draft, the core with the lowest male point total will go 
first. In the case of a tie, the core that is least top heavy will go 
first, meaning a 6 5 3 3 1 core will draft before a 6 6 3 2 1 core. We 
will then follow the same rules for women, based on each core’s female 
point totals. (Hint: to earn a good draft position, cores may want to 
consider not maxing out their experience points!)

Point values for individual players are determined by highest experience 
during the last TWO years (2006-2007) and are as follows:

6 points
-Open or Women's Club Nationals
5 points
-Mixed or Masters Club Nationals
-College Nationals
-Open or Women's Club Regionals
-Worlds or Non-US Nationals
4 points
-Mixed or Masters Club Regionals
-College Regionals
-Open or Women's Club Sectionals
3 points
-Mixed Sectionals
-College Sectionals
-Junior Worlds or Nationals
2 points
-Tournaments
-Winter League/Summer League
-Corporate League
1 point
-pickup games
-never played before (everyone is worth at least a point).

Any player under 18 years of age, or any male having reached age 42, or 
any woman having reached age 38 may subtract 1 from his/her initial 
point assessment. Anyone having reached age 50 may subtract 2 points 
from his/her initial point assessment. These age deductions do not apply 
to players with open or women's club nationals experience in the past 
two years. If your birthday is during the season (3/15-5/4), you may use 
either the before or after age.

Thanx for reading, I'll send another message out when we have the 
registration site ready!

T






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