Several folks in these parts want to compete on a team basis. Are there rules and standards for TEAM PLAY? I heard a podcast on PDGA Radio about team play and wondered what the rules might be. Does anyone do this at there local league? Any input appreciated.
Regards,
Charles

Team play is fun. The Virginia Team Invitational is becoming one of the most popular events on the east coast. Here is thier format.

2 Divisions, 6 teams per division
Every team has...
4 Open Pros
2 Pro Masters (or anyone rated 955 or lower b/c finding masters can be hard)
2 Amatuers (or anyone rated 955 or lower)
1 Woman (any classification)

Within you team, you are seeded (Open 1, O2, O3, O4, Masters 1, M2, Am1, A2 and Woman)

You then play all 5 teams in ur division in a 12 hole match play. O1 plays 01. O2 plays O2 so on and so on.

If you defeat the person on the other team in the 12 hole match play, you earn a point. If you tie (no overtime) you both get a 1/2 point. IF you lose, your opponent gets a point.

You add up points for the match, most points for one team wins that match.

After you have played everyone in division, every team has a record.
The One seeds play the oppositive divisions 2 seeds in semifinals (in semifinals and finals all matches must be finished, no ties)
The two winners meet for the championship.

It sounds complicated, but it is a blast!

Here in Texas we do Texas Teams every year at Wimberley:

There are two divisions: Established and Emerging

Established is for courses/towns that have been around for a while. Emerging is for the newer courses/towns without a lot of disc golf experience.

The established teams are made up of 9 team members:
2 Pro
1 Pro Master
2 ADV
2 Int
1 Am Woman
1 Swing Player (ie Adv Master, Pro Grandmaster, or Pro Woman)

Emerging is much simplier:

3 ADV
3 INT

Teams is always match play and depending on how many teams show, you either play 9 hole matches or 12 hole matches. Your team is assigned a "pool" in which you'll be playing 3 other teams from your division. When team X plays team y, each team member will play a match against their equivelent (ie ADV 1 from team x plays ADV 1 from team y). Then you add up the wins from each match to determine the overall winner (team x wins with 3 wins, 2 losses, and 4 ties...this is assuming you're playing in the established division = 9 matches because there are 9 team members). Once you've played the three other teams in your pool (typically at TX Teams there's 4 established pools), whichever team has the best pool record moves on the quarterfinals. All other teams from each pool that don't win, move on to the mixmaster (for established teams only). The mixmaster is crazy...while the pool winners get to sleep in, all the other teams have to get up early and play this interesting format. The team captain for each team has to divide his team into 3's. There will be 3 nine hole rounds (notice I didn't say matches) occuring simultaniously...two best shot rounds and one alternate shot round. The captain has to align his team members according to talents...(for instance, you wouldn't want to put you AM Woman in the alternate shot match...it's better if they play in the best shot format). Once the rounds are completed, you add the three scores for each team...something like 27, 25, and 31 = 83. Then you take the totals for all of the teams in the mixmaster (in this example, there would be 12 teams in the mixmaster because four pools of four teams with the top teams from each pool advancing to the quarterfinals as explained above). Since quarterfinals mean 4 matches, you would take the top four scores from the mixmaster and put them up against the top four pools winners. Then you go from there playing 9 holes matches like in pools play until you get a winner in the finals.

For the Virginia team tournament, how do you set up you initial pools ? How do you keep from the top 3 being in the same pool ?

the first event (2004) had only one pool of 8 teams. for the second (which expanded to 12 teams) i placed the odd numbered finishers from 2004 in one pool and the even numbered in another and then randomly added the new teams to one or the other. since we compete on a cattle farm i call the divisions beef and dairy. now i take the odd finishers from the dairy pool and place them with the even finishers from the beef pool and vice-versa. since one team gets replaced each year the new team merely takes the slot of the one they are replacing.

and the Home Team gets to play every year.

the first event (2004) had only one pool of 8 teams. for the second (which expanded to 12 teams) i placed the odd numbered finishers from 2004 in one pool and the even numbered in another and then randomly added the new teams to one or the other. since we compete on a cattle farm i call the divisions beef and dairy. now i take the odd finishers from the dairy pool and place them with the even finishers from the beef pool and vice-versa. since one team gets replaced each year the new team merely takes the slot of the one they are replacing.



Looks like unsound math to me. :D

and the Home Team gets to play every year.



true that.

the first event (2004) had only one pool of 8 teams. for the second (which expanded to 12 teams) i placed the odd numbered finishers from 2004 in one pool and the even numbered in another and then randomly added the new teams to one or the other. since we compete on a cattle farm i call the divisions beef and dairy. now i take the odd finishers from the dairy pool and place them with the even finishers from the beef pool and vice-versa. since one team gets replaced each year the new team merely takes the slot of the one they are replacing.



cool. thanks.