Capped Divisions... wave of the future?

[Parks]

Originally Posted by General Scales

Ahh, see, this is where I differ from everyone. If you are a volunteer, you don't get paid. Period. That's the point of a volunteer. Does anybody expect to be compensated with money when they volunteer their time to do anything? I sure hope not.

What makes a TD anything other than a glorified volunteer, then? Why should they get paid, but not other volunteers? I may have misread your post and you meant that TDs should also not get paid.

Back on topic: Sillybizz, I imagine the capping is mostly for the insanely large fields. There is no reason to cap smaller fields because as you indicated, their size can very greatly (a %500 difference is probably not uncommon). They are also not going to completely saturate the field, while something like MA1 could.

[Parks]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hemmerling

Grammar police: "intensive purposes" --> "intents and purposes".

Maybe he only meant the intensive purposes, and was ignoring all intents and non-intensive purposes.

[Scott]

Originally Posted by Parks

Maybe he only meant the intensive purposes, and was ignoring all intents and non-intensive purposes.

Perhaps he meant intense porpoises.

[Parks]

Let's not be silly. No matter how intense they are, dolphins don't play the Frisbee disc.

[Ol' Bob]

Originally Posted by Parks

Let's not be silly. No matter how intense they are, dolphins don't play the Frisbee disc.

Yeah, but...

I ain't wired to be silly, if Silly's any indication.

The rest of the story:

[dooley]

Originally Posted by Flatroc

"If you look at the results from past gigs it's fairly easy to determine where to place the cap within each division".

There are still things/people that can get screwed with this practice.
But speaking for myself as a 25+ year TD, what else is new?
And yeh you're right, those old farts can always throw a wrench in the woiks.

no wrench throwin this year....moved up to Grandmaster and will be playin in events offering a chance to play in that division

[D.L.]

Originally Posted by Parks

Let's not be silly. No matter how intense they are, dolphins don't play the Frisbee disc.

http://www.zazzle.com/dolphin_frisbee_card-137978032480574632
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan4th/483867696/

and just skip youtube

[The Ombudsman]

Originally Posted by General Scales

for all intensive purposes

?

you mean 'for all infants and porpoises'

[General Scales]

Originally Posted by The Ombudsman

?

you mean 'for all infants and porpoises'

I meant to use a computer and not quick text on my Android. Stupid smart phone.

[sillybizz]

Originally Posted by Parks

Let's not be silly.

Let me be silly.

Originally Posted by Ol' Bob

I ain't wired to be silly, if Silly's any indication.

Nice.

[DexterHawk]

I really like capping... It makes for more evenly distributed fields(nice when everyone has a good number of people to play against) , encourages players to try pro (usually the last division to fill), and makes course distribution make sense. I have been especially impressed with the recent lottery systems employed by the 3PO and the Fling... seems like the best solution to the sign up races that we had last year.
The truth is that more is not better... I've played in a few events with too many ghost groups and stuff like that and slow golf can suck the fun right out of an event. I would love to see more 3 per tee pad events and more pro only and am only events on the schedule...

[Scott]

There are pros and cons to capping.

There are probably about 150 advanced players that didn't get into the BSF who aren't really big on the idea.

On the other hand, there's a ton of women and crusties who are pretty damn thankful.

[Parks]

You could also cap a female trophy only division at two players and call it 2girls1cup.

[General Scales]

Originally Posted by Parks

You could also cap a female trophy only division at two players and call it 2girls1cup.

Yeah but would the cup be filled with chocolate ice cream?

[Parks]

That would be a nice touch.

My alternate name for a tournament with only two female players or maybe a women's only doubles tournament would be 2girls1flinger.