[TFDA] Spring League points change for college teams

T t-roy at mindspring.com
Wed Feb 20 16:52:00 EST 2008


We're going to make an exception to the experience points system for 
Spring League and college players. If your college team went to club 
sectionals as just your college team, then that experience will not 
count as club sectionals experience. We'd like to cater to cores of 
college teams forming in this league, and adding a point to every one of 
their players just b/c they went to club sectionals as a college group 
is too much penalty against them for one weekend of playing. Of course, 
all the other rules still apply if your team has been to college 
regionals or nationals, or if an individual player has played with a 
club team on their own.

The short version is we're allowing some 4s to become 3s.

To the rest of you, don't forget you don't need a core to play Spring 
League! Sign up and get drafted as usual. Registration closes March 1st!

http://www.tfda.org/main/index.php

T


-------- Original Message --------

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.

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.

An exception is made for college teams attending club sectionals as a 
college team. That occurrence is not counted as club sectionals experience.



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