Table Tennis: the "Tuesday league" of NJTTC.

September 1996 through June 1997.

The Tuesday league is the intermidiate league at the NJTTC; teams include 3 members each and are formed so as to be about equal strength. Players are rated by the fraction of wins to total games. An initial rating is given to new players in order to include them in a team, and after several games the empirical rating replaces the initial rating.

Each Tuesday each team member plays a (best 2-out-of-3) match against all members of the opposing team, and then one doubles game is played. There are usually two rounds a year for this league, and then a summer league starts.

My initial rating was 500 (read 0.500), and accordingly I was a "number 2," or "B Player", in a team (headed by Howard Teitlbaum). After playing for a while it dropped and stabilized around 250, and I finished the second round with a rating of 265. In 1996/7 there were 3 rounds: during the third round my performance improved, and I finished the year with a comulative rating of 380 (which corresponds to a rating of 600 based on the third round alone).

During the third round I was a number 3, with Howard again number 1, and Joyce Miller as number 2: we came in Third.

The last event of the 1996/7 league was an internal championship: a double elimination for each third (A, B, and C players). I won the "C" title.

Table Tennis: the "Summer League" of NJTTC. Starting May 20, 1997

The summer league (headed by Collin Mallows) is a handicap competition. An initial rating is decided, as a number of points (positive or negative). With each game won you go down by one point, and with each game lost you go up. At each game, the total difference between players is split in two: the game starts with the lower rated (higher number) player having half the difference, and the higher rated (-) half the difference (round down), and proceeds to 21 points, as usual (if the difference is odd, you start e.g. at -5, +4, and the first service is of one rally only: then serve switches, and continues as usual). The splitting rule is subject to a limit: you cannot start a game with more than 12 points; the difference goes in the negative direction for the other player.

I will be able to play about 6 weeks in this league. We'll see! I started as -6; on week 1 I lost 3 and won 1 and ended -4. On week 2 I lost 2 and won 1, ending at -3.

I also volunteed to chair the elections committee for the club as of mid-May 1997. Elections were supposed to be done by June 1; hopefully, they will be completed before the end of June.

Page created November 20, 1996 by Adam Shwartz. Did you see my home page? Go back to my Table Tennis Page.

Last update May 14, 1997.