Winter League 2013

[Chuck]

Pretty sure Jacob threw the most discs into Kreps' hands yesterday.
Four hand-packs and a Callahan??

Couldn't be worse than a certain Pink player berating his team and then doing the exact same thing he was upset about. Well, maybe.
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[eeville]

Karma is a killa.
As the old adage goes; "Do as I say, not as I do."


But that's what I love about Abe's team We have learned to play together (even with all my faults). And of course, I could do nothing without our other players. I think Abe did a good job this year, and I'm looking forward to the tourney and guarding CHUCK.

[Chuck]

Congrats to Black for a great season (13-1?).

13-1 was also the score of our game against them today. I think the most irritating (and wonderful, if you're Black) part of that whole hour was the 3-4 people on their team that I have never seen before, who can consistently throw, catch, and mark better than most players with a year or two of experience. They barely turned it over.
Obviously Abe, Kap, and Larkin were rather flawless (a few B.S. "down" calls*, but that's par for the course), so that helps too.

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More disappointing than a loss in beautiful weather is the piss-poor attendance. In the past few weeks, there have been quite a few forfeits (which apparently goes into the books as 13-0, right Jody?). Purple forfeited both this week. Blue was short last week...
We were missing**
Brosh
Clay
Alan
Kaleb
Julien
Nathan
Trent
Courtney
Lindsey
Brandy.

Black had 7 at game start, and maybe 11 by game's end.
Maybe we should go to 8 teams in WL.
Or maybe I'll start my own league, the
Dividing
Line
Disc
Association
(or DLDA, for short). If you are a sucky player and if youdon't show up (so sadly, this wouldn't apply to me since I show up), you are assigned to a random team with low numbers each week that you show up. And you pay (before playing) $15/5 for you first/subsequent weeks of play.

Of course, this isn't a viable solution (seriously, who wants to be told that they suck?!?), but maybe in thinking about how terrible my suggestions are, we can come up with some that aren't so bad.


*they were both down.
**"Missing" implies that we expected them to be there, which is a bit misleading. They are all on the roster, though.
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[SharpWill28]

Not even hindsight is 20/20, but I admit I should've done a few things differently.

Our sign up numbers suggested that we had enough for 10 teams. My main point for this league was to have captains recruiting. Some did, some didn't. Some chose to draft out of town players causing short numbers on certain weeks, some chose to draft college kids who had to leave town on certain weekends. Whatever the reason, these past couple of weeks have been lacking numbers and I feel responsible. I apologize to those who had to skip games because of forfeits. For summer league and WL if I am in charge next year, I'll for sure do these things differently and am open to other suggestions:

1. I am not doing 10 teams unless we have 200 players signed up. I do not see this happening, so I imagine it will be 8 teams.
2. I will not have a bye week for any tournament. I overestimated the amount of Fayetteville players still goto Mardi Gras so needing that break wasn't necessary.
3. The only people who won't have to pay before the first game of league will be newly recruited rookies who get a two week grace period to see if they want to keep coming.

I've decided a combination of 2 and 3 were a result in the low numbers these past weeks. The break allows people to forget or become disinterested. The payment deadline gives people who were on the fence the opportunity to just stop coming. So instead, we just see which side of the fence they were on before league even starts. It may result in just an eight team league, but 8 teams with solid numbers and stronger talent seems better than what we have now.

I'm going to have discussions with people and see, but I think for next WL if I'm still around I'll toss around the idea of a time frame of 1-4. No one gets out on time at noon. Maybe they won't get out on time to anything at anytime, so we'll see about that.

Any feedback on any of this is appreciated. You can post here or send me an email at william.wms.sharp@gmail.com

I will have the tournament info emailed by Tuesday.
Thanks for enduring my learning curve with me.

[Chuck]

Yes, there is a sizable difference between attendance prior to the $$ cutoff and after.
3) is definitely the solution, but it's not your fault. Ultimately we have a bunch of people - possibly not the same group every week - who are not showing up. Maybe we have some responsibility to make FDA a better experience. Or maybe they just need to keep their commitments.
Seriously, don't be so hard on yourself. We will all have forgotten this by summer (and nobody can really blame the TD for this).

So let's see what happens next time. I wouldn't be opposed to the more extreme measure of making payment due at signup.

My only real complaint (that leadership has control over, I.e. not attendance) this year is the shirts. They are for midgets. It's been that way every winter league I can remember.
Also, the Game of Thrones design would have been much cooler...
By the way, I have a scrumtralescent design for Gabor discs that was rejected last year. Champagne, you blew it. Fortunately the design is not time-sensitive.
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[Supafunky]

[Chuck]

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[Monster]

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[Cam Wow]

Good game Black and Sangria! Today was fun, even despite Blacks annihilation of our team, today was a good day! Wish attendance for every team was better too, at least I know my team will be mainly there at tourney. Good spirit all around today!
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[ROCOBaller]

Waiting to 200 players before going to 10 teams isn't a solution. Last year we didn't have that many and didn't have the attendance issue. Maybe we should consider going to the fall league format of letting people form their own teams, plus drafting free agents.

Jody, you should look at the attendance info and do some stats on what percent consistently missed versus how much it was random players missing coincidentally on the same weekends.

Chuck, please email me your Gabor design. As for the shirts, order a size bigger? Also making design suggestions prior to the shirt order is more helpful.
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[ROCOBaller]

PS I'm really disappointed in the lack of berating Will
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