Why not make a new sheet with the note: "An average opponent will receive a spirit score of 10, above 15 is exceptional". On a somewhat related topic - why does the spirit prize always go to (variously): the team with funny socks, the team with silly nicknames (and the number 69 or -1), the team of juniors, the team that came last etc. Perhaps a set of UKUA guidelines, in regard to the spirit sheet, could be released and included in every captains pack. Hayden Cole Warwick Bears President 2010/11
From: Jim Hancox <[email protected]> To: BritDisc <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 12:05 Subject: [BD] Spirit Scoring BritDisc, Firstly, an apology - if this innocent e-mail starts a thread that fills people's inboxes then I'm sorry. However, this post is done with the backing of Si Hill so if you do want to complain, do it in his direction! ;-) At the UKU AGM on held last Friday the subject of Spirit was brought up. In traditional AGM fashion, the discussion went somewhat off topic and the intricacies of how teams score their opponents spirit was touched on. As you know, UKU sanctioned tournaments have adopted the BULA spirit scoring system for a while now and, on the whole, this seems to have positively received. The purpose of this post is spark a bit of debate as to how teams actually generate an opponents score using this system and to, hopefully, settle on a method of doing this that every team can use ensuring that all the submitted scores at a tournament are relevant to each other. So, what am I really getting at?! Well, having spoken to a few people at recent tournaments it seems that there is a difference in how teams use this system. For example, some teams will reckon on a an averagely spirited game getting a score of 10/20 and then adjusting the score either positively or negatively according to the specifics of a game. An alternative, and seemingly quite common, approach is to always start with a score of 20/20 and deduct points for anything less than perfect sprit by your opponent. These two approaches could easily conjure up quite different scores for the same game... I don't really care which way of doing things is correct if I'm honest. I just want to make sure that when I fill out a sheet, I'm doing it the same way as everyone else!! Cheers... Jim. Jim Hancox Interim UKU Mixed Coordinator [email protected] www.ukultimate.com __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
