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Players must have a DUPR account, belong to the club organizing the league and must have a DUPR Ratting. The club will publish an event for the League and will create a League of Global Pickleball Network as well.
Please register for the event in DUPR and on GPN.
We really prefer that you have got a DUPR Rating, DUPR Ratings ae the best tool we have to try and understand players skills and organize players into teams of relativity skill. Please see the "Documents and Resources" section to find more about DUPR.
The director will try and run some rating events before the league starts. In the event you do not have a DUPR Rating at the start we may ask you so self assign a rating or assume you are a 3.5.
The cost will be predetermined by the League/Club director before the start of the event. Money will be collected when you sign up for a team in the GPN.
Once you are assigned to a team no refunds will be given. It takes a lot of effort to organize teams equally and having players withdraw makes it very difficult to find players and keep teams equal in strength.
Players may have any rating but should have some experience playing pickleball. The club director will organize players so that teams have similar total ratings. The director will sort players by DUPR Rating and generally assign teams from High to Low ratings for the first set of players and then again Low to High for the next set and so on. Extra adjustments may be made to get the teams to be very similar in overall ratings.
Games will be recorded in GPN (Global Pickleball Network) by the Home Captain.
The games will also be entered into DUPR by the League Director.
Prize money will be determined by the League director before the league starts. Please see the actual published league for more details.
The club director will decide whether there are enough players for multiple division.
Yes, the league director will attempt to accommodate these requests. Players requesting to be together will be placed together first, additional assignments will be made to balance the team's rating with other team. However, the exception to this is if a team becomes overly strong compared to other teams, then the players may have to be broken up into different teams.
The director will publish the team schedules in Global Pickleball Network. The day of play on the GPN schedule will be the Monday of the week, play should be completed within the week.
Each team will play once a week once the league starts. Matches will be Round Robin, so for example if there are 10 teams then there will be 9 matches. If there is an odd number of teams each team will have a week where the do not play.
In the event the captains could not get the teams together for the week, they may playing the following week but must do this within 14 days from the Monday of the scheduled week. Teams still must try and play their other scheduled match as well during that week.
In the event a match is missed on the scheduled week and not made up on the following week then one or both teams will forfeit. The league director must be informed who will make a decision about who forfeits.
Temporary subs for a single game can be made if you cannot fill your team with current players. A temp sub must be in DUPR and have a lower rating than the team member being replaced. For temporary replacements please record the games under the permanent player in GPN. Please notify the league director of who played the game so it can be recorded properly in DUPR.
In the event that you are permanently down a team member you may replace one of your team members with another player that has a DUPR rating lower than the team member being replaced. The replaced player will be replaced in the GPN Team.
Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating is the most accurate and only global rating system in Pickleball. All players, regardless of their age, gender, location, or skill, are rated on the same scale between 2.0-8.0 based on their match results.
DUPR is free and anyone can have a rating. One match result is all it takes to have a DUPR rating, and 5-10 match results is all it takes to have an even more accurate rating.
Although there are issues with DUPR and it may not always be as accurate as we hope it is the best tool we have to determine relative strengths of players. We use the ratings to organise teams into similarly skilled teams. We believe when teams are more closely aligned in skill the more fun the sames are. We also use these rating on match day to rank the players for play, see the section "Team Matches" on the home page for more details.
For more information on DUPR, please visit the "Documents and Resources" page or the DUPR FAQs https://www.support.mydupr.com/app-support .
As much as we prefer to run the league only one software system we believe that DUPR's strength is the rating algorithm and to provide players with a rating, it currently does not have the functionality to run an Team League.
GPN on the other hand has all of the functionality to run team leagues, schedule matches, track scores and determine league winners. GPN although has a rating system as well it is not as universal as DUPR.
As league directors we do have double work to ensure games scores get into both the GPN system and the DUPR system.
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