Hey everyone, as we mentioned at the playoffs, Myles, Mike and I have been looking at your feedback about the length of the season, and we’ve come up with some changes that we’d like to pilot.  The short version is that we’re changing the season from 13 weeks to 7, and keeping the playoffs at the end.  League fees, trophies, playoff food etc all stay the same, and we’re still playing 5 games per night.  We’ll be dropping the lowest 2 weeks (out of 7) instead of 3 (out of 13).  

Playoffs are also going to change a bit.  For A division, we’re going to take the season standings (best 5/7 weeks) and take the top 8 players into the A division finals.  Any tiebreakers for the top 8 will be worked out on a single game at the start of the tournament (game chosen at random).  A division finals will be a 7 game, head to head, round robin matchplay, followed by a single elimination bracket for the top 4 players.  This is the same as what we did this past season, with the difference being that everyone will play everyone else once.  High seed will get game or order choice.  For everyone else, we’ll set up a matchplay tournament for B division that works the same as what we’ve done in the past (head to head match play for a set time, with a single elimination, best of 3, final four). 

The plan is to run the first two 8 week blocks of 2024 this way, and then see how it’s working. As always, feel free to reach out with any feedback.  See everyone at Mike’s place on Monday!