[TFDA] TFDA Spring League!
T
t-roy at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 16 15:16:42 EST 2009
TFDA Spring League is again going to use a core system of forming teams. 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! We're also again going to allow teams to submit art work to screen print on their jerseys.
Can't find a core? No problem! Sign up individually and there will still be a draft and everyone will end up on a team. Pairs can sign up for the draft, but there will likely be a point cap on pairs as having "power couples" available come draft time makes parity hard to achieve.
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.
Games will be played at Efland-Cheeks field, located here:
http://tfda.org/Reference/Efland.htm
We looked for a more central site, but there wasn't one available (and delayed this announcement several weeks in the process).
2009 Spring League Schedule
March 14 Game 1
March 21 Game 2
March 28 Game 3
April 4 Game 4
April 11 Game 5
April 18 Game 6
April 25 Make-up date (College Regionals is this weekend)
May 2 & 3 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. If you've seen the coed savage point system, there are a few changes here to Thuy's version. 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!) Also, as happened last year, we may switch to a non-gender specific draft, which means draft order will be determined by your entire core together.
Point values for individual players are determined by highest experience
during the last TWO years (2007-2008) 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 (unless you played on an only college team, this exception applies only at the sectional level)
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 (3/14-5/3), 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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