The Fife League and Resultszone

[Duncan Zuill]

A thread for discussing the Fife League and the upcoming 2013 season.

When I was a Junior in the 1980s the Fife League had two divisions and operated through the post using buff-coloured cards which had the results sent to the "league secretary" who would post the league in the paper from time to time and amateur reporters would send in imaginative match reports to the Mail or the Courier.

In 2009 when I picked up my racket again (well ok, I had to actually buy one) the Fife League was organised from the laptop of David Holland (Dunfermline) using an Excel spreadsheet. At that point the Fife Squash website had expired, there was only one league, there was no more paying into a central fund for prizes and the like. The seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 have been administered by Gordon Dickson (Glenrothes) using the Excel spreadsheet. For 2013/14, Gordon has drawn up the new fixture list and Duncan has suggested trialling Resultszone.

The consensus is that Fife Squash needs to get more players and teams having roughly lost 50% or more of the teams it had in the 1980s.

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We have a Resultszone page on a trial basis: 

www.resultszone.com/cgi-bin/resultszone.cgi/fife?ucid=Login

The question I've got at the present is this:

Are we going to put the Fife League inside the Dundee and District Resultszone now or next year?

[David Williams]

I believe it was agreed at a brief DDSRA committee meeting on September 3rd that Fife League are welcome to join DDSRA on our current account, for free, and we can see how it goes. After this season we can look at splitting the costs in a mutually agreed manner, likely based on participation (i.e. if we have about 2/3 of the teams we would pay 2/3).

So it is entirely up to the Fife League committee which option you choose - both will be free for this season. It would be good to have you onboard and I'm happy to help with setting it up as soon as I know for sure you want to do it.

[Duncan Zuill]

Well if you'll help that'll be dandy - no time like the present and all that! I'll add you (David) to the Fife Resultszone so you can see what's there and I suppose help me duplicate what is there?

[David Williams]

OK I see now why you sent me your login details!

I shall make a start ASAP.

[David Williams]

I have scheduled Fife League as it was on the Fife League account, in terms of the league and fixtures. Please check it over and I won't be remotely offended if you change anything I got wrong!

The only player I hve registered to your teams is Craig Duff, who I believe may be the only player who plays in both leagues. So I had to register him a 2nd account because it's not possible to represent 2 teams.

I gave him the same ranking he has on DDSRA's rankings which was 2345, and propose other Fife League players should provisionally be ranked in comparison to that if possible. It will sort itself out eventually but it's better if you can get the provisionals somewhere close.

[Duncan Zuill]

Ok - working on it this weekend


Sunday night: I've copied all the names of players - need to fill in correct email addresses for them all... getting there...

[Duncan Zuill]

Does anyone have any good players wanting to play #2 or #1 for my club team, juniors even? It would be Thursday nights and regular games! The other team's gone and poached my best players!! Ha! Duncan, Kirkcaldy Squash Club

[Duncan Zuill]

First game of the season starting Thursday 26th September. I predict good results for Kirkcaldy Namaste Gurkha team...

How are you feeling? Are you fit?

[Duncan Zuill]

I said I had a good team - so Dalgety Bay have put out Neil Bennett. Well I'm happy the Fife League's standard is rising - probably just a blip! It'll still be 3-2 to us tonight I think!