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The Following email sent to team captains and club pros & reps at the beginning of the season:
Attention
Singles and Doubles Captains: Play begins the second week of January for all
Singles and Doubles! The link to the singles
league is as follows: http://www.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/season_information.asp?seasonid=213 The link to the doubles
league is as follows: http://www.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/season_information.asp?seasonid=214 Both links are also available from the PSRA website: http://www.phillyboast.com Please read the following information about the upcoming season.
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PSRA and
USSquash membership o
If, by some chance, you are not currently a member of both the PSRA
and USSquash, you must first join. o
Please see the link on the PSRA web site regarding membership o
http://www.phillyboast.org/PSRA_Membership.htm.
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LOGON to the
USSquash website. o
As a captain, In order to check your personal information, enter
and confirm results, contact other captains, manage your rosters, etc, you
will need to do this. o
This is done from any of the USSquash web pages indicated above, by
clicking on the LOGON item at the top of the page. o
If you do not have or do not know your logon username and password,
please contact Bill Buckingham at USSquash (212.268.4090, bill.buckingham@ussquash.com). o
Upon logging in, The LOGON
item at the top of the page will be replaced by My Account.
·
Check your
personal information o
Make sure your email
and phone, among other items are accurate §
Click on My Account §
Click on
"Click Here to View Your
Squash Profile" hyperlink §
Click on "Account" tab §
Click on "Summary" on the vertical column to make sure your
telephone and email are accurate §
Click on "Preferences" on the vertical column to make sure you
phone is visible and that others can email you.
·
You will then
be able to access your League in "captain"
mode. o
Singles: http://www.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/season_information.asp?seasonid=213 o
Doubles: http://www.ussquash.com/ssm/pages/leagues/season_information.asp?seasonid=214 o
Select your specific League o
The league page will show you the teams, captains and standings for
the current season. o
If you then click on your team, your schedule and player roster
will be shown
·
Enter Your
Roster o
If you haven't already done so, LOGON. o
Select the hyperlink for your team. o
At first there will be no names entered for your team. o
Click on the Manage Roster tab at the top of the page. o
You can then enter some letters of their last name, hit search, and
select them from the list of players by clicking on the radio button next
to their name under Choose. o
When you click on “Save and Continue” or “Save and Exit”,
they will be added to your team. o
If their name does not appear in the listing, then you will need to
contact them to join USSquash and the PSRA. o
For your reference, I am including, at the bottom of this email, a
listing of the roster’s submitted to the league committee. o
Upon entering their names, the next thing you should do is to
confirm their membership status and expiration date so that their results
will not be forfeited because they are not a member. ·
Pre-Match
confirmation with the opposing captain o
In order to contact another captain to touch base regarding an
upcoming match, you may use the League website to email them or to look up
their phone number. o
If you haven't already done so, LOGON. o
To do this, simply click on the captain’s name from the team
listing. o
Their phone number should be listed, or you can send them email by
clicking on the “Send Email” link.
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Recording
Results o
If you haven't already done so, LOGON. o
Either the home or the visiting captain may enter scores §
Both captains are responsible for their entry §
The other captain will be prompted by email to confirm the results o
Click on the "Record" hyperlink next to the specific
match on the schedule to enter results. o
You will need to indicate the players names, score per game, and
who won. §
If a players does not appear in the lookup for a team, you may
select "Not on Roster" ·
If the player subsequently becomes a member and is added to the
roster, notify me and I will edit the result. ·
Please be courteous to other captains by having all of your players
current and listed on your roster! §
If you don't know point scores, just put in as something like 11-9
for singles or 15-10 for doubles for each game. ·
See Important Note #2 below o
Select the appropriate status §
The status for each match defaults to "Completed". §
If it's a Default, then indicate the status as being
"Default" ·
Enter 0 scores (15-0 or 11-0) ·
Make sure you enter the names of the winners and
"Default" for the defaulting losers
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Playoffs o
There will be two weeks of playoffs at the end of the season. o
The top 4 teams in the division will participate, unless there are
mitigating circumstances, i.e. there are only 4 teams in the division and
not all of them participated adequately to qualify for playoffs (too many
defaults or too few exposures). Important Note
#1 - Player Membership If a player is not a current member, then even if that player is
recorded as winning, the win will NOT be reflected in the Team Points. If they do become current ASAP afterwards, then the win may be
restored.
Important Note
#2 - Calculation of Standings Standings
and Playoff positions are determined by the number of Individual Matches
won, NOT team wins nor games nor points. Note that if there are an odd number of teams in your league, teams
may receive a BYE sometime during the season. This is why there is a percentages column to indicate the true team
standings. This percentage represents the number of individual wins by the
team so far, as compared to the TOTAL number of individual matches
scheduled for that team for the entire season. Games won only comes into play when two teams are tied in
percentage. In this case their head to head result against each other needs to
be examined, in which case if one team won one individual match 3-1 and
the other team won the other individual match 3-2, then the first team
will be given the nod because they won more games.
Points will not be examined in regular season matches, due to the
fact that they are unreliable.
Important Note
#3 - Entry Deadline at End of Season All regular season matches MUST be recorded by noon on the Saturday
following the last scheduled match of the season. This is due to the fact that captains and their players will be
trying to schedule their time to play their playoff matches. Please be courteous to all and have your results posted in time.
Important Note
#4 - Playing Rules You should also read the PSRA playing rules, found at the PSRA web
site: http://www.phillyboast.org/PSRA_Leagues_PlayingRules.htm Answers to questions concerning playing in multiple leagues, substitution, playoff eligibility, etc. will be found there.
Ken Jaffe
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