Spring Sunday League Information

Thank you everyone for signing up for our 2025 Spring Sunday League! We have 7 teams signed up for this league, which means we will have a bye week for each team. Bye week players can sub for free in the other games, or practice on the extra sheet. This is an 8 week league starting on 3/30 with the finals on 6/8. As a reminder, every week of this league we have the ice from 6:00-8:30. There is no curling on Easter (4/20), Mother’s Day (5/11), or Memorial Day Weekend (5/25). The winning team of this league get’s their name on our coveted Wood Trophy!

Teams
Your team roster is displayed in the image below. Please confirm your availability. The new website does not record uncertainty with a “maybe” option, so if you marked a Yes or No because you are unsure of your availability rather than definitely in or out, let me know and I will update the chart. If updates before game time on Sunday influence which teams are best suited for a bye week, the schedule may change. You can update your availability by emailing me at leagues@diamondstatecurling.org, or messaging me on slack, I can give you access to our slack channel if you don’t already have it. If your availability changes during the course of the league, let us know so bye week players know if there are sub spots available. A reminder on the #sub-requests channel on slack the day before, or the day of, is appreciated.

Team Hercus is the bye week team for Week 1, no worries there’s room for everyone on Hercus to sub if they’d like. The weeks highlighted with a bold border are your team’s bye week (unless there’s a change by Sunday).

Schedule
In the first 7 weeks of the league every team will play every other team exactly once and have a bye week. 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. The 7th ranked team will have a bye during finals week, but again can sub for free or practice if they’d like. There are two teams in the league with only 3 players, so there’s at least one open spot every week.

Alright everyone, let’s have a great spring! 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, but bye week players get priority regardless of your recruiting efforts. 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.