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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "brit disc" <[email protected]>; "Bristol Ultimate"
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: [BD] Tour 3 Results
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> [opinionated subjective ramble] I do think that some teams might have
> particular rivalries that will mean they don't vote for each other on
> principle, no matter how spirited they were at this particular event,
> and different people judge spirit in different ways - but none the
> less, if you have a bad result this is clearly something you need to
> think about; maybe you should be playing a different sport? Often
> it's one or two people who give their whole team a bad name - it's
> clearly up to these teams to put pressure on those individuals.
> It's also possible that awarding each team you play marks out of 10
> would be a fairer way of doing it, as every team you play could have
> been good/bad. Maybe next time... [end of ramble]
Jack/all
I am not sure that I agree with this interpretation of the spirit scores.
Given that we played 5 different teams over the weekend (2 less than we
might have done had circumstances been different) 2 (4) teams were always
going to miss out on our spirit vote given the current regime. This does not
necessarily mean that the games were poorly spirited, merely that 3 of our
other opponents were better spirited. I certainly don't think that it is
the place of *anybody* to suggest that a whole squad should stop playing
ultimate merely based on one set of spirit votes!
I agree that a 'marks out of 10' system might be better, but again you have
the problem of how many games are played by each team against different
opponents. I think that the TD's have enough to do without me suggesting a
single tranferrable vote system of spirit scores, especially as it seems
that not all teams bother handing in spirit scores (possibly deducting from
these teams spirit scores would be a way forward?)
{(-:)>
Santa
Devon 2
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