Yearlong Sweeps?
A random idea I thought I’d throw out. What if we had a yearlong sweeps for SoCal schools that could be tracked on this site? Since a rule for life is that you shouldn’t bring up an idea you wouldn’t be willing to take on yourself, I’d be happy to run the spreadsheet. At this point, it wouldn’t be too challenging since we post all of the results on this site anyway.
As an educator, what is the value of something like a yearlong sweeps? A couple of opinions:
1) Yearlong sweeps more accurately reflect commitment, skill, talent and dedication than do results at a single tournament.
2) Since no L/D national tournaments will occur in SoCal next year (to my knowledge), this would be a great way for smaller programs to be able to claim a fairly legitimate-sounding award. Of course, with no budget the “award” would be an electronic mention on this page. This still might serve as something that could boost someone’s funding and get them some publicity.
What do we think?
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This was something I had been hoping to do this year but things got too hectic. I had thought what we would do is define an area where tournaments would ‘count’ towards the SoCal-LD Cup (perhaps San Diego to Stockton).
We would make the counting simple – offer a Lincoln Division and a Douglas Division. The Lincoln Division would be the team with the most overall wins throughout the entire season (so all teams all wins). The Douglas division would then be win % with a minimum percent (say 25%) threshold of rounds needed to complete. So if the school with the most rounds has 100, all schools eligible for the Douglas division would need to have competed in at least 25 rounds. You then take the win % (quality award) and the top school gets the award.
Schools could opt out or opt in however we saw fit to set it up. I think it may be wise as well to limit the schools eligible to those in Southern California since the point would be to encourage schools from our region to participate in the event.
Whatcha think? I’d be happy to set something up on this website so you don’t have to do it in excel but instead can be web-based, easy to enter, and visible (we could have a rankings on the front page).