Toronto Arts League Self Pitch Co Ed Softball - TAL

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Everyone interested in the team standing should look at the "Home page" announcements rather than in the "Standings" page.

The forum calculates the standing differently than what is specified in the league rules. I have manually calculated the real standings and posted them on the front page. As of the Wed Aug 12th games there is a significant difference between the standings as calculated by the board, and the real standings as calculated according to the league rules.

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Big thanks to Dave for busting out the calculator every week to make sure the standings are up to date - the rest of the league thanks you for your diligence.

R

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Thanks! You kids and your new-fangled "calculator" thingamajigs .... us old folks do it the old fashion was ... we use a spreadsheet :lol:

I've noticed though that that the league way of calculating the standings does something strange ... for instance, if one team plays, lets say 9 games, with a 6 and 3 record, and another team plays 10 games with a 6, 3 and 1 (tie) record, the team that played only 9 games will have a higher standing than the team that played 10 games with the same number of wins and 1 tie ... not sure that it is fair to penalize a team for playing an extra game that turns out to be a tie??? The difference also doesn't always give the same effect ... earlier in the season a difference in one game, and that game being a tie, gives the advantage to the team with the tie ... but we must consider that the standings at the start of the year are not important and that the end of year stats are extremely important.

Can't do anything about it mid season, but it might be something to discuss at the annual Captains meeting.