From the PDGA:
The PDGA will be providing the resources for players to earn PDGA rated rounds playing in their hometown weekly leagues. If you already have leagues, you'll be able to continue running them pretty much how you've been running them. The PDGA will simply provide the ratings service for your league players.
“Okay, so how much this is going to cost?” All players will pay $1 per week. There's no extra fee for nonmembers. League Directors keep half (50 cents) for admin costs, final standings payouts, course improvements, charities, etc and the PDGA gets the other half (50 cents). We feel splitting the fees with the League Director is essential to help strengthen local disc golf clubs and help with course maintenance to keep our courses looking nice.
League Directors will determine your weekly league entry fee. If you want to play for $2, $5, $20, or FREE that’s up to your league. The PDGA league sanctioning fee will be just $25 for a 12-week league. The PDGA is not going to track payouts for leagues. It’s up to the League Directors how they wish to go about handling their leagues (meaning Ams can accept cash without losing Am status).
The March 2012 roll out will be the first phase of the program. We are requesting that all events be standard singles play until we get the system established. Once we get everything working smoothly we hope to provide the option for other formats including handicapped, global ratings based, team and even doubles leagues. This may take some time to develop all of these formats. But once we get more players getting rated rounds then it will be much easier to establish the parameters for how these other formats will work. Plus the IT side of things will need a little time to incorporate handling the different formats.
Would love to hear some feedback about this. Is this something people would be interested in?
i think anyway... Could mean a ratings boost for everyone if they get more " home course" rounds in...hate to give pdga more cash but its not much and the rating thing has always been a big benefit of pdga membership....Montana's tougher to play a lot of events in compared to other regions just based on size and sparse population... seems like with this we'd at least have that more constant barometer of how we're playin...plus we all like lookin at ourselves in the mirror, heh...
Several people have talked to me about this. Many bring up the same points as Joe which are all good. One other point in favor is that by including league rounds in the ratings system, MANY more courses would establish an official SSA which would be useful for all the scoring apps out there.
Others bring up that, at least in our GCF Tag rounds, they are more casual than a tourney round and they wouldn't want to take them as serious as a tourney round. Some of things mentioned are drinking, dogs, and just wanting to play a "non-serious" round with friends they see once a week.
All of the points, for and against, are valid. For our GCF Tag rounds, this topic will be put to a vote by GCF Members at our first Club meeting, late Feb or early March.
Also keep in mind that a "season" of PDGA league play is only 12 weeks long and that there will be 3 "seasons" throughout 2012, so if a league were to sanction, it wouldn't hve to be all year long.
Would really like to hear more points of view on this...
I personally am very intrigued by this but the NIDGC board unanimously voted against it in our first board meeting of the year recently. We decided that we will let other local clubs take the lead on running/organizing league sanctioned events and decided that if we get enough feedback from locals who are interested then we will revisit it at a later date. I have heard rumors that the SDGA is going to give it a try.
ScottW
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