Week 9 Pairings - June 23

Things to remember for Tuesday:

1. Tuesday is our last chance to catch the McEvilly team for the first-half pennant. It starts all over in July.
   
2. The League Scramble is next week. I will post tee-times in several places. Make sure your teammates know your Scramble tee time.
3. Bring $9.50 for the cookout/buffet on the 30th. I will be waiting to collect when you get off the 9th green.
4. It's gonna be HOT. Here are the Extreme Heat Guidelines: (1) Hydrate. (2) No Speedos on the course.

There is a long, drawn-out explanation of pairings at the bottom of this post (in case you're interested).

4:52 & 5:00	Wolfe vs. Moritz
David Wolfe	16		Paul Schuettler	13
Adam Hopkins	17		Bob Lomasney	14
Paul Barnett	14		Tom Hidde	15
Mike Sanders	18		Bob Moritz	16
5:07 & 5:15	Nelson vs. Miller
Steve McDonnell	9		David Miller	12
A Tomaszewski	29		Ed Meachen	13
Mike Williams	11		Doug Hoerr	13
Brad Nelson	21		Charlie Hoslet	14
5:22 & 5:30	McEvilly vs. Kraus
Dave Delveaux	10		Lynn Paulson	10
Ed Corcoran	14		Steve Smith	14
Pat McEvilly	13		Andy Taylor	11
Herb Stanford	24		Mike Kraus	16
5:37 & 5:46	Thoeny vs. Williams
Travis Thoeny	4		Dave Rieves	6
Ed Molter	12		Matt Blouin	15
John Loescher	16		Bob Crowe	18
Rob Zimmerman	23		Ron Weiss	20
5:53 & 6:00	Dvorak vs. Loew
Jason Thomas	9		Chris Weber	8
Mike Warren	11		Scott Gomez	8
Jeff Dvorak	13		Shawn McGettigan	13
Phil Julson	20		Doug Smedema	33

In the Rule Book, I made a cursory attempt to explain how I do pairings during the season. I also posted more detail on the subject in this blog in May 2008.

Since I've updated the pairing methodology a bit this year (and will do so again next year) here's the explanation.

During the 1st half, my goal is to have each player play three rounds with each of his teammates, and to give each golfer a mix of first group and second group starts. In order to do that, I put together a grid that shows the pairings for each of the nine weeks. Ranking each golfer 1-4, by handicap, the grid looks like this. What it shows is that, in week 1, the #4 and #1 golfer for each team go out in the first group and the #2 and #3 golfer follow them in the second group. (1's play against 1's, 4's against 4's, etc.)

Week:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	4	1	1	3	4	4	2	1	1
	1	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	2
	2	2	3	1	3	2	4	2	3
	3	4	4	4	1	1	1	4	4

During the 2nd half, then, I'll keep the teammates paired the same way (i.e. week 10 the same as week 1, etc.) but pit them against the opposite two golfers from the opposing team. This meets the goal of having everybody be in a foursome with everybody else in the league.

On paper, this meets all my goals. In practice, though, people's handicaps are fluid, and a golfer may be his team's #2 golfer one week, and #3 (or #4) the next. This means the goals are not usually completely met.

To that end, I have used week 9 matchups to "even out" the teammate pairings and get them as close as I can to "three rounds with each teammate." (I think next year, I'll use both weeks 8 and 9 to do that.) I only had to manipulate (i.e. deviate from the original grid) two foursomes to even things out.

This is probably more information than any of you are interested in, but there you have it.