 ABOUT USATT LEAGUES
The USA Table Tennis League is a growing network of online
table tennis leagues. It allows players to run leagues and
have those leagues processed for USATT
League Ratings. Leagues can be run just about anywhere
- in clubs, rec centers, schools, businesses, churches,
military establishments, even basements - anywhere there's
a table and players.
The USATT League opened publicly on September 2, 2003.
The League is free of charge and does not require USATT
membership to participate.
League Format
The league director starts off each
league night with a printout of potential league players,
in order of rating. The recommended format is to put the top five players in the list who
show for the league meeting are put in the top group, the
next five are put in the second group, and so on down the
list. If the number of players in the league is not divisible
by five, then the number of players in some groups would
be adjusted. Players are then hand-written onto blank RR
group sheets. (League directors may adjust the number of
players per group to best fit their needs.)
Players play all other members in
their group. The goal is to win the group, and to improve
one’s league rating. Recommended format is best of five
to 11. (Some leagues play best of three to 11, so as to
allow time for more matches.)
There will be other league formats
available later on; however, the above format, used successfully
in many clubs around the U.S., is the one recommended for
the first year.
Playoffs
You can also do playoffs between
group winners, runner-ups, etc. After you have inputted the
round robin results, hit "Submit new match
results." In the page that comes up, you can set up
another "round robin" involving just those players
involved in playoffs. Select those players for this round
robin, and only record results for the players that played
each other at this stage. Then hit "Done - Calculate
Ratings," and all results - round robin and playoff -
will be calculated. (You can also have rated "challenge
matches" this way.)
League Ratings
At the start of the league,
players will start out with either USATT
ratings or estimated ratings. League ratings will change
in the same way that USATT ratings change, using the same
rating chart. Ratings will be calculated online when results
are inputted by the League Director. Unrated players will
be given a rating of 800, if no better estimate is available.
(These ratings may be adjusted later as more info is available.)
Tournament directors should put in estimated ratings for new
players, if they can give a fairly accurate estimate.
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