Reason for Changes

Unfortunately Herb is dealing with some medical issues and it is unknown when he’ll be able to return to the ice. There’s a more complete explanation on slack. We all wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him again as soon as possible.

The previous lineup for this league gave Herb the one 3 person team. Rather than have John lead a two person team and force him to carry subs every week, I shifted teams around again, basically just swapped players between Vild and Kupchik/Grillo. The same team has a bye week this week, and nobody’s planned absences have been moved off a bye week, so the affect is minimal. View the changes below, see everyone on the ice!

Spring Thursday Teams

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. .

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.