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Tools and Techniques

Sports and Athletics

Focus on the Competitive FormatSlide2

The proliferation of competitive athletics has caused problems. Sports are organized by adults, and are over influenced by adult values. Recognizing

these problems, a number of programs have developed that try to refocus on the benefits of competition and athletics.

One of the better programs is the ASEP or American Sports Education Program http://www.asep.com/. This program is recognized by its motto "Athletes First....Winning Second". ASEP recognizes the crucial role that coaches play in reaching the stated objectives of youth sports. The ASEP program is designed to prepare coaches by helping them develop a sound competitive philosophy, by assisting them in teaching fundamentals and strategies, and by understanding the growth and development process of young athletes, as well as how to reduce injuries.Slide3

Leagues

A league is an association of teams (or individuals in an individual

sport) with the common interest of competing against one another in their chosen sport.Leagues are organized to make the scheduling of play easier, and to combine persons or teams of like skill

or interest. Programmers can use the league structure to make competition more fair. For

example a league can be used to allow the more competitive teams to play each other, or the less competitive....Leagues can also be used to make scheduling more concise. Adult softball leagues are often described only by the night on which they play. The Monday night men's competitive leaguesays it all.

Tools for the Competitive

FormatSlide4

Round Robins

Round-Robin(RR

) play is designed toensure that each team or player playsevery other team or player in the leagueonce. A double round-robin ensures thateach opponent is played twice.Slide5

Round Robins can be used alone or in conjunction with another format

Most popular league format

Can also be used as a tournamentUse in combination to achieve certain goals (single round robin followed by upper and lower division round robin…or…single round robin, followed by bracket tournament)Slide6

Leagues are characterized by:

teams

seasons schedules (e.g. round-robin)Types of LeaguesCompetitiveChurchopen, industrial/corporate, coedrecreational, etc.Slide7

Steps in a Round Robin format

Step #1

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Steps in a Round Robin format

Step # 2

rotate opponents counter-clockwise, keeping #1 in the same positionWK 1 2 3 4 5 6 76:30pm 1-8 1-7 1-6 1

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1-4 1-3 1-27:30pm 2-7 8-6 7-5 6-4 5-3 4-2 3-88:30pm 3-6 2-5 8-4 7-3 6-2 5-8 4-79:30pm 4-5

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Round Robin

Adjustments

Step #3Adjust team #1,because all of their games would be at 6:30 otherwise, and this team would always be home team if the 1st team listed is the home team.Week 6:30pm 3-6 7-1 7-5 5-1 1-4 4-2 5-67:30pm 2-7 8-6

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BYES

When an odd number of teams make up a league a bye must be used.

In a round robin format, a bye simply means that the teams do not play, or have a rest break. In other tournament formats a bye means the team advances. In those situations a bye is treated as a win.No time is assigned to the bye as no game or match is played. In this league of 7 teams, three games will be played per night.Slide11

Odd number of teams require the use of BYES

Round Robin Tournament/League format (illustrating use of byes)

7 TEAMS bye-7 bye-6 bye-5 bye-4 bye-3 bye-2 bye-16:30 1-6 7-5 6-4 5-3 4-2 3-1 2-77:30 2-5 1-4 7-3 6-2 5-1 4-7 3-68:30 3-4 2-3 1-2 7-1 6-7 5-6 4-5Slide12

Scheduling Software

Quick Scores illustrated……many versions, try out several