New Year League Information

Thank you everyone for signing up for our 2025 New Year League! We got a full 8 teams signed up for this league. This is an 8 week league starting on 1/12 with the finals on 3/16. As a reminder, every week of this league we have the ice from 6:00-8:30. We do not have curling on February 9th or February 16th, one is Super Bowl Sunday and one is a hockey tournament.

Teams
Your team roster is displayed in the image below. Please confirm your availability, some of you have already done this. The new website does not record uncertainty with a "maybe" option, so if you marked an absence because you are unsure of your availability rather than definitely out, let me know and I will update the chart. If you know you can't make it to a game, post in the #sub-requests channel on slack as soon as you know. This will help make sure we can find subs and easily play all our games. Don't have access to slack? Email me at leagues@diamondstatecurling.org and we will send you an invitation.

Schedule
In the first 7 weeks of the league every team will play every other team exactly once. Week 8 will be a finals week based on overall ranking after 7 weeks. If you have questions about tie breaks and stuff, check the fine print at the end of the email.

Alright everyone, let's have a great start to 2025! See you out on the ice.

Good Curling,
Brian Hufe
League Coordinator

Fine (but not that fine) Print - 

Tie Breaks - Ranking will be first by record, then by ends won, then by points scored, then by heads up record. If all those tie breaks fail, the super-tie will be broken by a draw to the button contest between the skips of the tied teams. I doubt super-ties will happen, but they could.
Forfeits - If any week requires a forfeit due to attendance, the forfeiting team will be given a loss and no ends or points, the winner of the forfeited game will be given a win and the average ends scored and points scored by the rest of the teams that night. If it's a mutual forfeit (it's happened before), both teams will be credited a tie but no ends won and no points scored.
Subs - If a team has less than 3 players present they will have the first priority for sub assignments. Next priority will be if your team specifically recruited a sub. After that, subs will be randomly assigned. If there are not enough subs present to make all scheduled games happen, teams of 4 may be asked to donate a player to teams that are short. However, if teams that are short are willing to play doubles, those games may proceed as a doubles game rather than shuffling players. But we will not force anyone to play doubles who isn't comfortable. If there are enough open spots that a forfeit can be declared due to attendance but everyone who showed up can still play, that may also happen. We will do our best to avoid declaring forfeits, so if there is a way to avoid a forfeit by swapping weeks we will do that, as long as it won't cause an attendance problem down the line.