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It's a great idea -- I'll run it by the executive.
Along this note, I think there's been a noticeable effort to better recognize females by providing some great opportunities in DUC. The women's clinics run by Undertow, the Callahan tournament, as well as the adoption of the 4:3-3:4 offensive call has thrown some nice changes into our league play. |
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Thought it over myself -- still awaiting an answer from the rest of the exec.
My own stance is that I like the initiative as a year-round goal (engage women in the game, develop handling and other skills, etc.). However, my fear for the competitive division would be that such an initiative could really skew game results for the week if a team exists with several female handlers already on it (I can think of one such team right now). While it might encourage other teams to push their female handling to the next level, it might be a disadvantage to them. At times, we see this being used with the 3:4 ratio being played by teams with stronger girls on O. Seeing a team with "weaker" girls, they may play their 4 much stronger handling ladies in order to guarantee the point. If you add to that advantage the fact that each such point is worth two points, you have a tough break to make up for.
Alternatively, it could be something that's negotiated by the captains at the start of the game.
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The thing is...if women aren't given a chance or encouraged to pick up the disc, it is very difficult to get better.
This "Pick It Up" campaign is not about whether the team wins because they already have strong female players or not because they don't, it's about encouraging women to take on roles that they may not have otherwise.
I like to think that with such a campaign, a stronger female player would encourage the other, maybe less experienced, female players to do more, not take advantage of the situation to run scores up. |
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| This is definitely something we should discuss and decide upon at the Captain's meeting and not mid season. But thanks for bringing it to the league's attention. |
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| Bryce Zimny wrote: | my fear for the competitive division would be that such an initiative could really skew game results for the week if a team exists with several female handlers already on it (I can think of one such team right now).
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Bryce, last year I experienced this exact situation on both Tuesday and Thursday intermediate teams. The teams who already had female handlers ran up the score simply by making sure that they were the ones involved in every single point. Because the game was still competitive, each team played those females as a focal point of the offense, further isolating others. Not only that, but the games also ended very early. I agree that more female development is needed, but I found the two-point rule to be ineffective at doing this - at least for the more experienced intermediate teams.
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