New Rankings are Up
Submitted by Kelley Lavely on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 14:01
These are the official point standings through MERC #3 as of 1/7/2010, as tabulated by Tracy Hawthorne (in place of Justin Labelle who was out of town), Danny & Kelley Lavely. All 3 of us got together and went through every player in every division of every tournament and came to consensus on each and every one. It was a long, pain-staking, but necessary process that was needed to resolve season-long discrepancies; we are confident not only in the process but in the results.
As you can see, in a couple of cases, team finishes changed - most noticeably the fact that OSU and CINCY Women's teams in fact TIED at MERC #3 - not the 4-point difference originally calculated! Also, GCC and SRU swapped rank finishes in the men's and combined team totals at MERC #2 from what was originally posted on the website.
We also wrote up scoring guidelines/procedures that we used to do this and will be used for the last 2 tournaments of the season. These guidelines are identical to the ones used by the USAR to score Olympic format tournaments as well as the ECRC's events. These guidelines will be distributed at the MERC 4 tournament.
So, on to MERC 4 - as you can see from how CLOSE many of the team standings are - EVERY MATCH COUNTS!!!
