STTC Sunday Club League Info

STTC Sunday Club League

How seeding and player advance to next higher group is done

This question comes up periodically as new players join STTC league so here's the details. It all depends on how many enters and their club or USATT rating week to week.

After the deadline, players are seeded according to their rating then grouped-off to even number of players as possible without creating disparity. Example; not having one group with four players and another with seven.

All the players are initially seeded according to their rating and grouped-off. Then, players who won their respective groups in previous week are advanced to the NEXT HIGHER  group. This is easy but it gets a little tricky when number of groups differ week to week and this happen often. As an example, in previous week, there were three groups and this week, there's four. The winner of Group B doesn't automatically move up to Group A. The winner moves up to the next higher group this week depending on where his or her seeding is in the initial seeding. The winner may be grouped in Group B within the four groups because this week, more higher level players may have entered. If the number of groups are  the same, the winner goes to Group A regardless of rating.

My formula is based on fostering competition. This was the primary reason for offering $100 to the winner of Group A, to recruit more high to mid level players to reduce the large gap between Group A and B.