Finals Eligibility

[Marshy]

This topic is based on the Men's Division 1 firsts and seconds. Please excuse me for alienating other divisions and teams.

I read that in order to qualify for the twos, you have to play "more than half of their weekend Regular Season games" in that team.

So if I am understanding that right, if a player plays every weekend for the season, as long as he has only played 8 weekend games in the firsts, he can play finals for the seconds, even if he has played every single mid-week?

e.g: 8 Sunday games in the ones + 10 Sunday games in the twos + Unlimited mid-weeks = Eligibility for the twos.

Do I have that correct?

[regg44]

I think that is pretty right Marshy.

I am pretty sure though that if a player re enters the 1sts game after having played in 2's that also counts as a game in 1sts.

[Marshy]

Thanks mate, forgot about re-entry. For the purposes of discussion, can we leave that out?

As I'm a twos coach, I am thinking that I will try (heavy emphasis) only giving up my players (particularly pitchers) for mid weeks and insist they play with me weekends.

Not a fan of 11-0 drubbings.

[regg44]

Player management issues like this are always complex - balancing the needs of the 1sts to win games but also not finding your 2's make the four and then have half their "regulars" unavailable for finals.

I think the principle of not including the mid weekers is a good one as often 1's regulars have work, study etc issues that make them unavailable.

Also the simple maths that 1's play so many more games than 2's clearly compromises the ratio of games for fringe 1's guys.

None of us are fans of those blowouts

[sanchez2]

ha ha.....my bad marshy!

[wyatt33]

Would it matter if both first and seconds were playing finals? As long as they're playing the same day, can't anyone come up or go down? Surely that makes it a simple exercise. Changes things if both teams aren't in of course.