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The year end captain's meeting will be coming up soon and we will be discussing this year's season in preparation for next season. If you have any ideas that you would like us to discuss at the meeting please let us know by adding them to this discussion topic. Please keep your suggestions short and to the point. Do not reply to anyone's ideas on this particular discussion topic. We are just looking for the ideas not the discussion. If you wish to discuss someone's suggestion please start a new discussion topic. Some things we will be discussing for sure incluce:
1. Moving of teams between divisions
2. To have September games or not
3. Setting a schedule for the whole season (this means there can be no movement between divisions)
4. How do you determine who should be in which division
5. What do you do with players who are constantly breaking the rules or endangering other players
6. What do you do with teams that do not cheer/sing at the end of the game or that consistently have poor spirit ratings
7. What kind of playoff format should we have? Are playoffs necessary?
Remember no discussing the suggestions just state them. I could write more but I have to go play some euchre. |
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| Need for pre-season games? Just start regular season games right from the start |
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the reason for pre season this year i think was because he didnt know where to place all the teams, some didnt want to move up when they could have.
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Could you also consider talking about expanding the league to a weeknight? Possibly starting up a smaller weeknight league and see how much interest you can get.
I'd love to be able to play twice a week!
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I like what TUC did for format this year.
Assuming 24 teams, and a 15 game season:
4 divisions of 6
3 mini seasons of 5 games each.
Top two move up, bottom two move down (if it makes sense to move them)
That way, you tend to be playing within your relative skill level, at least if not in the first 5 games, by the second season.
I'd start with this years divisions.
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I like what TUC did for format this year.
Assuming 24 teams, and a 15 game season:
4 divisions of 6
3 mini seasons of 5 games each.
Top two move up, bottom two move down (if it makes sense to move them)
That way, you tend to be playing within your relative skill level, at least if not in the first 5 games, by the second season.
I'd start with this years divisions.
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I agree with you on that TUC format! At the start of the season i did mention of something really similar to what you just mentioned, and well, thats what happened half way through the season some teams changed divisions and then it was left at that. |
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| I like the idea of a midweek league, keep the two seperate so you can be part of two different teams. |
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Yeah, a week night would be awesome to get some extra friz in if the fields are available.
Has the idea ever come up for playing in the fall/winter at somewhere like the Durham Indoor Soccer Centre which has awesome FIFA turf?
Just wondering if it was ever brought up.
niven |
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| Please keep the discussions out of this particular post as we are just brainstorming ideas. If you wish to comment on any of the suggestions then start a new topic to do so. I have been tempted to discuss some of the ideas myself but have refrained. I will, however, quickly say that mid week would be awesome but there are absolutely no fields available...if anyone can find some fields we can do that. Most municipalities hold all fields for soccer games and so I cannot book them. |
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Re: The Durham Indoor Soccer Club...I tried, I think two years ago, to organize a winter league but there was not enough interest and have not had the time to attempt again; maybe next year. Also, the league would have had to get its own insurance coverage, I received a quote for $1500.00 (can't remember how many teams I proposed). I believe the City insures their fields and we pay for that with field rental fees. Maybe if there is interest, we can rent the fields a couple of times over the winter for pick up.
As far as League suggestions:
I like the four divisions we have now and I would propose promoting the top two teams and demoting the bottom two (if that makes sense) from this years standings. Next year it would be nice to see a promotion/demotion maybe somewhere in the middle of the season with some sort of playoffs. This schedule does have to be set from the start so people won't schedule their lives to interfere with what is important (ULTIMATE!!!).
Teams that do not sing get an automatic spirit deduction.
I would also like to do something with players who continually risk the safety of others, however it is hard to sanction someone with only one side of the story, and as you know there are at least three sides to every story. This topic would take al lot of discussion and debate to get something that is fair. I would also like to sanction teams that have been in the league for more than three years that give you grief when you try to play Ultimate by the rules!
As far as playoff format goes, (GOTTA HAVE PLAYOFFS) maybe have DIVA and DIVB playoff in a tourney and do the same with DIVC and DIVD, crowning two winners.
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Some ideas ive heard from other people:
- Season somewhat like TUC. Split every 3-5 weeks. Top teams move up. lowest teams move down. Requires more work with scheduling and likely more for Marc on the website side of things but might even things out. More work for Kevin/admins with scheduling too.
- Exibition games.. Only use them for like spacers. When doing the scheduling, if you need time, use an ex game for a buffer to allow for more time to schedule if needed.
- Playoffs. Tough one. End of season is hard for most as ALOT of the players are back to school. Not fair to them to schedule a late august or fall playoff. Possibly a mid season!? Maybe near the end of the season(IE ALL AUGUST) run the tourney on like every sunday.. 1-2 games(depending on the number of teams next season)
- Captains Duties. Agressive players, abusive players, dangerous players and those stupid players. Captains need to step into the shoes of "not so nice people" and take action. If you have someone doing something YOU shoudl be pulling your playes from games. Captains need to do MORE to help out the game then sit back and complain to kevin and hope he has the time to do it all.
- DUC Comittie. Depending on the use can take ALOT off the backs of Kevin and everyone else with the work load.. Use them to help schedule, maybe assign one person for each division to help take in complaints/suggestions/comments/concerns and address them or forward them to the Admins.
- Admins more visable during the games. This can go with the above comment. Admins of other leagues(baseball, volleyball, hockey) usually come and check out the teams talk to the players and captains. Its hard for Kevin to do all that when there is 2 times people play and he has 2 teams playing.. Maybe assign one admin rep to the 2 start times and their job would be to go talk to the coaches and players EVERYWEEK. may take what 20 min. Might also help with questions and concerns.
- Somehow promote the site to all members of the DUC?!? VERY few players in the DUC check the forums out or post. might not be as bad as i think.. but even my team there is maybe 3 people who actually read it. Maybe some incentive for people to check out the site. This would also help the captains as players can come and SEE when there games are instead of always relying on their captains emails(they dont always work)
thats all i have from my list.. most of the topics have been brought up or i know kevin knows about them.. and some im just leaviung for the meeting for other to go on about as they know more then i do about what to say.
See you at the meeting. |
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A little advertising.
I moved to Durham just two seasons ago and DUC wasn't the easiest league to find. There are many free oportunities to promote DUC and the sport of Ultimate. We should do more to get the DUC name out there. I know this requires people to do additional work, but some of the free advertising involves contacting a paper to get an article written about DUC, and usually every Municipality has a community guide to outline activities in the area. It shouldn't be to hard to get DUC in these guides. I'm sure there are more advertising ideas that people can think of as well! |
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I would like to discuss the DUC website. (lol what else is new?) Some points to consider as a team captain and/or player:
1. What was the best part? (I would like to know what features were most useful)
2. What was the worst part? (What didn't work, or never worked?)
3. Looking forward to next year, what would you like to see?
4. Any other suggestions & feedback
Thx
Marc
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