League format

[seanandnik]

I am currently in a 3c league which is ending next week. The guy who runs the league is looking for maybe a new format. We currently have 14 players and play a round robin, but I read here a format with 10 inning games, or play to your average. Can you guys give me examples how to make games fair ? How does a .350 player play a .800 player in a 10 or 15 inning game fairly ? Please give me some ideas or options. Thanks

 

[Bob Jewett]

I am currently in a 3c league which is ending next week. The guy who runs the league is looking for maybe a new format. We currently have 14 players and play a round robin, but I read here a format with 10 inning games, or play to your average. Can you guys give me examples how to make games fair ? How does a .350 player play a .800 player in a 10 or 15 inning game fairly ? Please give me some ideas or options. Thanks

I have played in a league where all the handicaps were based on average. It was a lousy way to do things, at least the way it worked out there. The players had caught on to the fact that if you always play safe your average will go down and more aggressive players will have to give you an unfair spot.

Here is a simple and very fair way of doing handicaps:

Everyone has a rating that is basically the number of points they go to times ten. If someone is rated at 132, they go to 13 in their match. Every time they win a match, their rating goes up by one rating point. If they lose, their rating goes down by one rating point.

If you want to adjust the length of the matches, just multiply everyone's rating by the same number, say 0.9 to get slightly shorter matches. If you have some kind of "finals" at the end of the year, you could double the match lengths for that event.

 

[OneArmed]

We have a small tournament several times a month, here in Minneapolis.

Most players play to 7 points, or 14 innings, whatever comes first. If tied after 14 innings, each player hits the break shot and continues to run. Whoever has the highest points off the breakshot continues. If tied, they keep shooting the break shot.

Our highest ranked player shoots to 11 points rather than 7, and lowest shoots to 5 points.

It works pretty slick, and we can get a dbl. elimination tourney done in a night with ~8-14 players easily in this format, with only having 2 tables.

 

[zensteve]

Our club has had leagues since 1963. There have been several machinations during the course of those years.

In short...one plays to 50innings..establishes an average...substracts the highest and the lowest game from the mix. Ones average equates into points one plays to. One player averages 20pts to 50 innings. One player averages 30pts to 50innings. Handicap is 10 pts.

We have several defensive players that keeps many averages lower than normal.