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    Mixed Spring league - fixtures frozen

    Update - the fixtures on the website are now frozen so you can book your first few home matches.

    We do still have some uni matches to arrange though and will be working some magic on those over the next few days. If you're short of a uni match or two then expect to be contacted by a uni team captain. Please be flexible and see what can be done. This is a very short term for the uni teams given the term dates and their exams in January.


    I've taken a first pass at the Mixed Spring league.

    This is based on:

    • Where everybody finished up in the Autumn league
    • The promotion/relegation rules with which the top/bottom teams can move up/down two divisions
    • The many constraints that teams/clubs have asked me to workaround. This list gets longer every time and is one of the reasons we struggle to get the fixtures out. Having said that, if a club can't play home on a Thursday, then there's not much we can do about that.
    • Kingsdown B not being able to field a team for now
    • Vivo Sports adding a new team (6) which I've put in division 3. The old Vivo Sports 6 is now Vivo Sports 7.
    • Bath Uni adding a new team (5) which I've put in division 8
    • Some rearranging when two teams from the same club ended up in the same divison and were mis-matched (they know who they are...)

    Please note that the introduction of a new team into division 3 means that all the divisions including and below division 3 have one team not going up when they thought they should and one team going down when they thought they shouldn't...  Perhaps bear in mind that in old money, moving from division 4 to division 5 is the same as moving from division 2B to 2C which was a sideways move... Apologies to those effected. I've tried to minimise this as best I can.

    The university teams all have BUCS matches to avoid and exams throughout January. This means they have limited availablity and closed courts in some cases. This is the reason we still have missing fixtures so I'll be going back to the Uni teams to see what we can do about that.

    The fixtures are nearly there but we're missing these:

    So please don't book any courts yet as all the dates may yet change to incorporate these last few fixtures.

    For now:

    • Please check where you ended up in the table. Hopefully the above explains it but do ask if you still don't understand or think you've been hard done by. I'm not sure I can do much about it but I can, at least, explain why you are where you are.
    • Please check your fixtures to make sure I've taken your constraints into account. These are constraints like - the club can't play home on a Thursday as it's club night - rather than your personal preferences. We don't have enough courts to all play on a Wednesday these days. Even if the dates change, the constraints will be applied the same so these dates will be a good indication of what the system is doing.

    Please reply ASAP with any concerns so I can complete the fixtures and get them frozen. I'm aware we all need a week's notice to book the courts.

    Cheers,

      Richard.