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| March 4 SSUSA Staff 3505 posts | Ratings Guidelines Here are the guidelines used by the National Ratings Committee in changing a team’s rating: 1. The National Senior Softball Ratings Committee’s First Priority is to protect teams in the lower division. That means if a team is losing a large margins in it’s own division, but beating teams in the lower division by large margins, then the team should remain in its original division in order to protect the lower division. 2. Over 3 tournaments, is the team beating or losing to its opponents in the same age and skill level by an average of 5 runs or more? 3. For AA Teams: are they producing double-digits runs consistently (one of the key indicators of AA teams is that they are inconsistent in run production) 4. Here are the guidelines for teams winning the largest National Championships of any of the National Summit Organizations (Only the largest tournament of each association results in the following): • A. Teams winning in a division of 6 or more teams and may not appeal their rating in 2009. • B. Teams winning in a division of 3-5 teams and may appeal their rating in 2009 after playing in 3 tournaments. • C. Teams winning in a division of 2 teams and will not be moved up. • D. SSUSA reserves the right NOT to move a team up if there is a preponderance of information showing the team should remain in the original skill level. 5. The rating of a new team is determined by the rating / ratings of the teams from which the players came. A team with all new players begins as AAA if no other information is available. If there is a question, the team is always assigned the higher rating. 6. A team retains its rating unless it falls below 6 players from the original team. 7. Major-Plus players may only play on Major or Major-Plus teams, unless the manager of the Major-plus team verifies that the player is not a “key” or “impact” player. This is decided on an individual basis and approved in writing by the association. |
