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    Avon tournament results now on website

    The results of the various recent Avon tournaments are now on the BAD squash website so if you played in any of them your history should now be up to date. Tournaments added are:

    * Avon Senior Closed - boys/girls, all age groups (Oct 11)
    * Avon Junior Closed - men/ladies, all grades (Jan 12)
    * Avon Senior Open - men/ladies, all grades (Jan12)

    Please have a look through your history and check your matches. The juniors were entered manually (from the score sheets) whereas the seniors were done programatically from Mark's tournament spreadsheets. Note that Mark entered the scores manually into his spreadsheets so there could still be some typos in those too.

    If you see anything that doesn't look right please let me know.

    Note that rankings will be affected by these matches though they were a while ago now and less significant to your current ranking if you've played a few matches since then.

    One more point on the rankings... When entering the junior results I realised that there were a few matches from juniors who had (a) not played for ages and (b) improved a great deal since they last played which meant that their ranking level was too low resulting in a drop in ranking for anyone who had the misfortune to play them. I've allowed for this now by using a 'ranking confidence' which drops over time if you don't play. The upshot of that is that if you play someone who hasn't played for ages then your ranking is much less affected now whereas theirs is still adjusted. 

    I'll put something on the web about how the rankings work sometime soon as there's more to it that meets the eye and there's quite a lot of interest in it despite no-one ever admiting that they actually care about their ranking...

    Enjoy...