Hello Ladies,

As you know there is only one week left in ladies league for the 2010 season.  We have been informed over the past week that there was a problem with our system counting participation points which has led to my delayed blog posting this week.  I wanted to make sure that we solved the problem and that the statistics were correct before I stated the teams that are leading going into the final week. 

The issue we were having was that our scoring system was set up so that 4 scores must be counted in order for the teams to receive any participation points.  This means that for our six fun nights, no participation points were counting toward the final standings.  To fix this problem, Chris and I went back into the system and changed each of those six weeks so that only one score needed to count in order for the participation points to count.  We changed the point system those weeks to zero points for a win or tie.  This allowed only participation points to count. 

With this change we needed to have one score count each of the fun weeks for participation points to count.  We then went through those six weeks, looked at the players who came out and determined a score for one player per team based on that players "average handicap" as shown in the online system.  This way the handicaps remained the same. Each player was then chosen so that they would purposely beat the opposing player.  We tried to use different players each week.

It worked out that every team would gain three more losses and three more wins. We paired up the same teams for each of the three weeks, remember that no points were allocated for a win or tie.  The standings are now correct in the system going into the final week.

Good luck tomorrow ladies!