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USAPA Official Rankings Page
- When checking ranking points, remember the following:
- 1. When Senior Events are combined, Points are awarded in the youngest division. The opposite is true for Junior events.
- 2. Points are not awarded in events by age for a 'B" level!
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Points Inquiry By Player with Detail or
Points Inquiry By Tournament To Check Your Point Totals.
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Status of Completed Tournaments
- Palm Creek: Points have now been entered! Please check your points as we have new programs in place that create the 2008 Ranking Point Reports.
- Everett 24 Hour Fitness Center: Points have now been entered and everyone should check their points for mistakes as usual..
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Tournament Requirements
- We are trying to train all tournament directors to turn in draw sheets complete with
scores and a list of players with birth dates and contact information as soon as possible
after each tournament, but it is turning out to be a slow process. You may wonder why that
is necessary and I'll try to give a brief explanation of why we would like that information.
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The reason we need player information is that we often have players with similar names and it
is occurring more often as the sport grows. Without some identifying information on a player, it
is often very difficult to be sure we are applying points to the correct player. That problem
is compounded when the same player has his name misspelled in a couple of tournaments. With contact
information, it is possible to phone or email the player and make sure we have the correct player
and the correct spelling. Unfortunately we still have quite a few player records with first and last names only.
- The draw sheets are also necessary in trying to decide what ratings a player should have, and
if we should move their rating up or down at the end of a years play. Also a draw sheet with
scores is much more useful in trying to judge the strength of different teams than just knowing
who won a match. If for example a team wins 3 tournaments in the 4.0 division, it would appear
that they may be too strong for the 4.0's. If the draw sheets show that they won every match
quite easily and never lost a game, they might need to be moved up immediately. If, however,
they lost several games and had several very close matches, then they are probably in the correct
division even though they won. Without scores and draw sheets this is impossible to determine.
It is not an easy task even when complete results are available.
- It would also be nice in the future to track match results and scores for all players. This would
enable us to base rankings not only on points but also to consider good wins or bad losses
in determining the top players in each divisions. This will not happen until we get compliance
from all tournament directors and also have more volunteers to help with entering the necessary
data if it were available. The rating system will also be slow in growing unless we get more
volunteers to help in processing results and changing the present system where necessary.
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