*Schedule Reminder*

There is no Thursday league this week due to a hockey tournament.

Spring Thursday Teams

Since people skim these emails, I’ll post the new teams and schedule and then explain my reasoning below (in case you don’t care why).

Schedule
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 the 5 weeks of league play. If you have questions about tie breaks and stuff, check the fine print at the end of the email. .

Changes

I’ve had to change up the teams and the schedules just slightly. As you’ll recall, we needed two weeks of pickup games for a league schedule to work for this league. We planned to have the second night of pickup games on 5/22 because everyone said they could attend that night. However, with a few extra absences last week we had less than half of the league present and we were only able to hold one game. So we’re going to have to count that night as the pickup game. To make bye weeks work a little better, I swapped two people on the team roster and I switched bye week teams. Paul and I switched, so Paul is the vice on team Zimmerman and I am the vice on team Ridgley. I had a conflict come up on the same week as Team Ridgley’s bye week, and Paul’s only planned absence is the finals week, so this move didn’t make his bye week worse. Team Kupchik and Team Vild both have no further absences leading to bye weeks that make sense and we needed to assign a team to the previous pickup game night, 5/22. So I switched Kupchik’s bye week to 5/22 and made Vild’s bye week 5/29. Vild is a team of 4 and there are 4 open spots on 5/29, so this makes the most sense. Herb would likely only sub for a skip, so that makes his team only provide 2 subs. People call out all the time, so hopefully the remaining two people on Team Kupchik will have sub spots if they want them, and if not they can practice on an open sheet. 

Sorry for all the confusion, hopefully this is the last of the changes to this league. See everyone in two weeks!

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