Hi BD & UU
I remember a couple of years ago, someone created a kind of league table to consolidate the achievements of university ultimate clubs across all the respective divisions. Well, frankly, I thought that was brilliant, and a really insightful way to see how our university clubs got on during the season. Now that I’ve far too much time on my hands, and since I haven’t seen one posted for this season (or indeed last), I hope I won’t be treading on said person’s toes to do so for this season just ended. Using a point scoring system adapted from that used at Tour, this awards fixed points to teams finishing in the top 8 berths at a tournament, with proportional points allocations to teams further down the rankings according to tournament size (finishing 15th in a 24 team tournament is more of a feat than at a 16 team tournament, for example). Nationals are given double the weighting of Regionals; and includes clubs’ 2 nd, 3rd and 4th teams’ performances, consolidated into one club overall score. Initially I’d opted to include only 1st team performances, but then realised this wasn’t truly reflective of the strength of clubs who enter multiple teams- the prime examples being Exeter and Dundee who both fielded 2nd teams that finished in qualification berths in Regional tournaments this season. The scoring is also adjusted in instances of disqualification, where zero points were awarded for the tournaments in question. Of course, these rankings can’t take into account tournaments that fell during clubs’ exam seasons, preventing teams' entry, or the fact that Scottish Open Regionals were abandoned (in this instance, I’ve used an average finishing position between 2010/11 Indoor Regionals, and 2009/10 Outdoor Regionals). Whilst I accept that these rankings will be flawed, I feel it gives us a decent reflection on how our clubs have fared this season; and of particular use to those teams who didn’t qualify for Nationals, to see roughly how you fared in comparison to the rest of the UK. 1 Sussex 2 Warwick 3 Exeter 4 Dundee 5 Edinburgh 6 Manchester 7 St Andrews 8 Leeds 9 Newcastle 10 Nottingham 11 Bath 12 Cambridge 13 Aberdeen 14 Southampton 15 Portsmouth 16 Durham 17 Oxford 18 Loughborough 19 Surrey 20 Glasgow 21 Cardiff 22 Lancaster 23 UCL 24 UEA 25 Liverpool 26 Bangor 27 Birmingham 28 Sheffield 29 KCL 30 Bristol 31 Imperial 32 Strathclyde 33 Stirling 34 Chichester 35 Reading 36 York 37 Kent 38 Sheffield Hallam 39 Oxford Brookes 40 Plymouth 41 Cork 42 Holloway 43 Leicester 44 Trinity (Dublin) 45 LSE 46 Brunel 47 Lincoln 48 Bournemouth 49 De Montfort 50 Herriot Watt 51 Hull 52 Anglia Ruskin 53 Essex 54 Brighton 55 Swansea 56 Roehampton 57 Aberystwyth 58 Nottingham Trent 59 UWE 60 Staffordshire 61 UAL 62 Falmouth 63 Aston 64 Cranfield 65 Huddersfield 66 Salford 67 Leeds Metropolitan 68 Bradford Any comments or questions would be greatly received! Cheers Dave Chairman, Surrey Scorpions Chairman, Guildford Ultimate __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
