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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:37:12 -0500
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From: Stephen Young <syoung@clw.org>
Subject: RE: London League 2000
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DC Leagues, for reference
DC has at least 3 distinct forms of "in-town" leagues, plus travelling
teams, plus regular pick-up.
Biggest is Summer league
It has 2 divisions, commonly known as "Pro" (advanced) and "Rec"
(beginner). Some folks play in both leagues, travelling players (the most
advanced) generally don't play in rec.
To play in that league, you sign up and rank yourself by skill and
athleticism. For Pro, a formal "draft" is held. Volunteer captains pick
from lists of 450 players, so each of 20+ teams each end up with 20+
players hand-picked by theoretically knowledgeable players (the latter
round picks end up being guesses).
In Rec, the players are randomly asssigned to teams in order of their
ranking, forming another 20+ teams. Its basically a formalized season-long
hat format, but player rankings ensuring each team is roughly equal. (You
join one team for the season.) (It is, I believe, similar to Paul Hurt's
London summer league, except the captains are more formal.)
Separately, in Summer, there is a "Corporate" league, where teams join, but
must have some formal work/business relationship - not just a bunch of
players who make a super squad. The Corporate League at least two and
perhaps three divisions of self-estimated skill.
In fall and spring, there are two leagues in DC, "Clique" and "Rec". Rec
is the same as the summer version, although somewhat smaller. Games in both
are only played on the weekend.
Clique allows groups of friends to join as team. It has three divisions of
about 8-10 teams each, I think. The leads to a few "super" teams, but they
end up playing each other in the highest division, so not too many
slaughters happen.
Stephen
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