Guideline for Day Women Tuesday/Thursday Recreational League
The primary focus of the Day Women Tuesday and Thursday Recreational league is skill development, fun, and socializing. While small prizes are awarded to the winning teams at the end of each series, this is NOT considered a competitive league.
The League aims to allow as many women curlers as possible to participate. There are approximately 4 series each session, with each series being 4 to 5 weeks in length. Players are assigned to a new team each series.
Curler Guidelines:
Registering
• Participating curlers must be paid members of the Club and they must have paid the Day Women Tuesday/Thursday Recreational League fee
• New curlers are strongly encouraged to complete a Learn to Curl program before joining this league
• Curlers sign up for each series separately on the Club website by the announced sign-up deadline
• For each series sign-up, curlers can sign up for either or both of Tuesday and Thursday (although curling on both days is NOT guaranteed). At each sign-up, curlers are asked to indicate:
• The dates that you want to play – Tuesday and/or Thursday
• Your preferred date of play – Tuesday or Thursday (in case the convenors cannot put you on a team both days)
• Your first and second choice of position
• Any other comments that you want the convenors to be aware of
Curling
• Curlers will be notified of team assignment(s) by email prior to the start of each series
• Curlers should update their sparing availability for each series
• Curlers are responsible for finding their own spares to fill in for any absences (e.g. vacation, illness) and for keeping their skip informed. This can be done through the spare list on the Club website
• Games can proceed if a team has only 3 players. If a player arrives late they can join the game to sweep, but if they’ve missed their turn throwing their rocks, they should wait until the next end to throw their rocks.
• Up to 3 players on a team can be spares.
• Make your way to your assigned sheet as soon as the ice is ready for play and scoreboards have been reset to zero, “shaking hands”, and determining hammer by the Club specified start time
• This League follows the Club Bell Rule and the Five Rock Rule
• Teams are encouraged to play as quickly as safely possible to play 8 ends.
• Vices keep track of the score and total ends up to an including the 6th end and then play the 7th and 8th end for the win. Vices should record win/lose/tie, ends, and score on the Scoresheet posted in the Ladies locker room. Eight end games should also be noted on the Scoresheet.
• A decision to end the game will be made by the team with the lower score.
Convenor Guidelines
Setting up the Teams
• Ensure that series sign-up open and close dates are posted in the Day Women’s calendar and the Club website manager is aware of the dates (for posting on the Club website).
• Place reminders regarding series sign-up opening and closing dates in the Friday Flash
• Following the series sign-up closing date, access the series sign-up for each day through the Club website Convenor tab
• Review sign-ups and determine how many teams can be made – this will be a multiple of 8 (i.e. 8, 16, 24,32, 40, 48, 56 to a maximum of 64 curlers)
• When there are more curlers than a multiple of 8, some curlers may need to be excluded from game play that day/series. Factors in determining who these curlers are should include:
• Consideration of the curler’s league registration date (for series 1) or series sign-up date (if available) for the remaining series
• Ensuring that all curlers get to play at least one day
• Ensuring that curlers who have registered for 2 days but can only be place on a team one of those days, gets to play on their preferred day
• Ensuring that exclusion from play only happens once to a curler per season
• Sort the registration list by position preference
• Identify the required number of skips, vices, seconds, and leads based on the total number of curlers
• When there are more or less curlers for each position, it may be necessary to refer to a curler’s second choice (and, in rare cases, a third choice based on curler experience). When this happens, make not of for future series convening to minimize the number of times it happens to any given curler in one season
• Enter curler names in the team random generator software
• Manually review the randomly generated teams in relation to:
• balance of skill of curlers on each team as much as possible
• minimize curler overlap with Monday teams
• minimize curler overlap with Tuesday and Thursday teams
• minimize curler overlap with previous series in that season
• pair up any new curlers with their “big sister” (particularly for Series 1)
• Note: as the season progresses, every effort should be made for curlers to not play together more than twice. However, this may not always be possible and curlers may be required to play with the same curler more than once or twice per season.
• Randomly assign ice for the first game of each series
• Type up the team lists and scoresheets for posting in the Ladies locker room
• Send out the team lists to all curlers by email
• Notify any curlers who were excluded from play by email
• Send copy of team lists and the numbers of the ice sheets that will be used per day to Club administration
• Send copy of team lists to Club web manager for posting on website
• Advise Day Women Executive Player Development reps of any new curlers
Scoring and Ice Assignment
• The scoring procedure is printed on the Scoresheet as follows:
o 10 points for a win, 5 points for a tie, 0 points for a loss + the number of ends won (based on 6 ends of play) = total points
o Blank ends are worth ½ point for each team
o Defaulted games are 10 points and 4 ends for the “winning” team and 0 points for the defaulting team
o Points are cumulated game-to-game
• After the first week of play:
o pair teams up with the team that has the closest cumulative score. If teams have already played against each other in the current series, then pair teams up with the next closest cumulative scoring team (this includes the final game).
o assign sheets randomly. If possible, teams should not play on a sheet they have already played on in that day/series (Note: depending on the number of sheets in play, this may not always be possible)
• After the final game, teams are ranked based on their total points.
• A tie will be broken in the following order
o add 1 extra point for each 8 end game played
o compare the cumulated scores of each of the tied teams
o compare the head-to-head competition of the tied teams
o compare the last day of competition of the tied teams
• Announce the winners and award the prizes (as approved by the Day Women Executive) to the top 3 teams for each day at the completion of each series
• Post winning teams in the next week’s Friday Flash
• Complete a OCC Day Women Expense Claim form and submit to the Treasurer to be reimbursed for the prize money
Revised and Approved by Day Women Executive: May 2022
