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Dave Dowell
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| Nov. 28, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Appeals Board Steve ... Are you asking about the process for a team rating appeal or a disciplinary action ruling appeal? ... I'll take a swing at it if you can clarify ... Thanks ... |
| Nov. 20, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Player rating 9 ball ... There are a lot of variables and a few "ifs" in your post ... Please call the Sacramento Home Office today at (916) 326.5303 and ask for an eligibility/roster person ... They'll take care of your questions right away ... Thanks ... |
| Nov. 20, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Winter Worlds Scheduling Problems There's also the potential (undesirable) consequence that a team playing four (of the five-games scheduled format) on Friday faces elimination from the tournament in their first game of the day on Saturday ... Playing five in 24 hours and being on the way home as early as 9:30 AM Saturday morning isn't going to be anyone's preferred schedule ... Due to the drop down to a four-game guarantee dictated by the weather, a handful of teams did depart after one game Saturday, but at least it was mid to late afternoon in almost all cases ... |
| Nov. 19, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Winter Worlds Scheduling Problems Oh, this is a FRIDAY complaint ... Well, that makes it a bit simpler to explain ... All five parks pushed the theoretical maximum of six teams per diamond after we had to discard the Legacy Park option ... They are 4-field complexes, and we balanced the team loads at C. Chavez (22), D. West (23), Papago (22), R. Mofford (24) and Sahuaro Ranch (21) pretty well ... Then it's just making sure the games demand (which in a 5-game guarantee format equals 3.2± per team) fits the game-slot inventory ... In your 17-team bracket, it was obvious that only the #1-Seed was going to get Friday evening off ... Unless you were 2-0 with strong runs-allowed numbers, you were going to be playing Friday and should maybe have planned your time away from the park accordingly ... It was also completely by design to have the 50-Majors slotted into the late seeding rounds ... With their 7-team division, the mathematics prevent playing four games at a time, so they were set up three-wide at 2:00 and 3:30 PM, with only the single games in your division filling out those two rounds ... There's another little twist most folks probably don't think about: Those specific games (for teams #2, 4, 5 & 10) were placed there strategically so that no team would be at a disadvantage because they had to play three games in a row if they seeded themselves into a 5:30 PM bracket game ... That protective scheduling is not by accident ... So that's how and why Friday came together like it did in what we believe was perfectly laid out ... I'd do it again exactly the same way, with or without the assistance of a Computer Science intern with, very likely, exactly zero knowledge or experience in such matters ... Thanks, Bruce, for commenting and providing a context to allow us to explain what we do! |
| Nov. 19, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Winter Worlds Scheduling Problems No worries, BruceAZ ... I don't take it personal because the real culprit was Mother Nature ... She's tough to get a response from, and it's unreasonable to blame adverse weather consequences on the tournament staff ... She deprived everyone at Rose Mofford of the first 16 games slots of the day being played before the actual start time at 2:00 PM ... But that still beats the other venue in the NW quadrant of the Valley ... Sahuaro Ranch Park, less than 8 miles away, suffered a complete rainout and ZERO games played ... Today, you can expect it to be sunny, with a high near 74° ... Good luck!! ... |
| Nov. 18, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: WINTER WORLD'S • Adverse Weather Update UPDATE • Play was canceled at Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale and Saturday games/divisions were moved to other facilities for both Saturday and Sunday in the case of Womens's 40-AA and Men's 40-AAA finals ... The revised Master Games Grid (except for Desert West on Saturday) has been posted for the weekend play ... Please contact your Field Director(s) for more specific information ... Thank you! |
| Nov. 18, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: WINTER WORLD'S • Adverse Weather Update WINTER WORLDS WEATHER DELAY • Substantial overnight rains in the metropolitan Phoenix area have caused delays at all five facilities on Saturday morning ... Contrary to some of the dis-information floating about, there have been NO CANCELLATIONS OF SATURDAY PLAY ... We are currently working on modifications to the bracket schedules and will post them here as they are completed ... Please CONTACT YOUR FIELD DIRECTOR for the most current reliable information ... Thank you! |
| Nov. 17, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Tourney Results Truth in advertising advisory: I had nothing to do with it. Stephanie and the on-site Directors deserve ALL the credit for a job well done. Thanks, Louie for speaking up! |
| Nov. 17, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Downloading New Player Registration Card Cal ... Please call the Sacramento Home Office at (916) 326-5303 during normal business hours in the Pacific time zone and ask for Shelby ... She can email you a replacement digital card immediately ... |
| Nov. 17, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: New Ratings Home Landing Page Manny ... We're going to go ahead and leave those teams in the system so we don't flush all of the player history and applicable ratings data for those players who are still active at older age divisions ... Thanks just the same for the idea ... |
| Nov. 15, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Midwest Championships Hi Doug ... Sorry I missed this one and it slipped by ... It's highly unlikely that the date will change after it's been published ... There are a lot of other "dominos" in the line, so it's not as simple as it may initially seem ... Hopefully the weather will be acceptable, and we hope you will provide us with an update after it ends ... Thanks for your insights and good luck this Season ... |
| Nov. 14, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Question for DD There's no formal rotation plan for specific weekends for the 50/55's and the 40/60's groups, although there were some years it worked out that way ... The current decision to stick with the 2023 arrangement for 2024 (and likely into the foreseeable future) is based on the field supply/games demand allocation geometry for those groups ... And that's impacted by the reluctance of Sparks to accommodate our games demand by deferring their local leagues on the second weekend ... They don't run those leagues over Memorial Day weekend, which allows us unrestricted (and favorable) scheduling ... The best "fit" is the way it shows for this Season ... Good luck ... |
| Nov. 12, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Rose Mofford Sports Complex City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation personnel tell us that full concession/snack bar services will be available at Desert West, R. Mofford and Papago Parks in both sessions ... The "traditional" food trailer vendor will be at C. Chavez as they have for a decade or more, and Gidget & Family will be at Sahuaro Ranch as usual in Session #2 ... |
| Nov. 10, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: 40's & 50's Winter Worlds Schedule - AZ This (Friday) afternoon ... In final review as we type ... |
| Nov. 9, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Rockin Reno Thanks Bill ... YOU are not wrong, but the 2024 list WAS wrong ... Give it a couple of minutes, then refresh that page ... It should be fixed to show the 60's back in with the 40's ... Sorry about that! |
| Nov. 9, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Rockin Reno There's no formal rotation plan for specific weekends for the 50/55's and the 40/60's groups ... The decision to stick with the 2023 arrangement for 2024 (and likely the foreseeable future) is based on the field supply/demand allocation geometry for those groups ... And that's impacted by the reluctance of Sparks to accommodate our games demand by deferring their local leagues on the second weekend ... They don't run those leagues over Memorial Day weekend, which allows us unrestricted (and favorable) scheduling ... The best "fit" is the way it shows for this Season ... Good luck ... |
| Nov. 7, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Women's softball Discussion: 53 Looking to join womens 50 team I posted those TENTATIVE field assignments on November 2nd. Nothing has changed since then. Good luck! |
| Nov. 1, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: 2023 Winter Worlds Phoenix TENTATIVE field assignments within the next couple of days ... DRAFT Schedules and brackets for Session #1 within a week or so and for Session #2 shortly thereafter ... |
| Oct. 31, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Teams looking for players Discussion: Texas Thunder looking for 60 yr old players Happy Birthday • Happy November Fool's Day |
| Oct. 31, 2023 DaveDowell | Topic: Tournaments Discussion: Winter Worlds Phoenix myklkp ... Yes, there will be an update in the next couple of days ... The soft entry deadline is later today (5:00 PM PDT on Halloween) ... That will give us the data to make informed field assignment decisions, which we will do efficiently ... We will NOT be returning this year to Legacy Park ... Good luck! ... |
