CROQUET CANADA ANNUAL COMPETITION RULES
Competition year 2004

CROQUET CANADA PLAYERS OF THE YEAR COMPETITION

RULE POY 0. Definitions. For the purpose of the rules to follow;
`competition year' means the period from November 1 to October 31. 
`club' means `member club in good standing of Croquet Canada'.
`member' means `individual member in good standing of Croquet Canada'.
`competition event' means a singles competition with the following four qualifications:

(a) it takes place within the competition year
(b) it is played under USCA rules or The Laws of Association Croquet or WCF-approved Golf Croquet rules
(c) it is either without bisques or a bisque-per-point contest within a Natural Handicap event 
(d) it is either a 'Canadian event' i.e. a flight in a tournament sanctioned by Croquet Canada or a 'Supplementary event' i.e. another bona fide singles event which allows final standings to be reasonably calculated. 

Examples of Supplementary events include the US Open, the WCF-based world championships, international test matches in which every team member plays against every member of the opposing team. 

The Grade Equivalent (GE) of a handicap is determined by the following table:

Conversion Table

Hcap	Step	GE
-1.5	1	2498
-1	2	2343
-0.5	3	2203
0	4	2076
0.5	5	1961
1	6	1857
1.5	7	1763
2	8	1678
2.5	9	1602
3	10	1532
3.5	11	1469
4	12	1412
4.5	13	1360
5	14	1314
6	15	1271
7	16	1233
8	17	1199
9	18	1167
10	19	1139
11	20	1114
12	21	1090
13	22	1069
14	23	1050
15	24	1033
16	25	1018
17	26	1004
18	27	991
19	28	979
20	29	969

Division Boundaries

The Division boundaries are as follows:

Blue: Grades 1600 and higher 
Red: Grades 1200 and higher but below 1600
Black: Grades 1080 and higher but below 1200
Yellow: Grades below 1080.

For a USCA rules event, Grade will mean the Grade Equivalent of the USCA rules Handicap in question. The Tournaments Coordinator will assign temporary Grades to players entered without Handicap or Grade where this is called for and available data allows this to be done in a reasonable way.

The `Strength' of a competition event is defined as follows:

Strength = (sum of the Grades entered)/(1 + number of Grades entered).

RULE POY 1. 
For every player in a competition event, a Position Score is calculated as follows. The Winner's Position Score W is given by 
W = (Strength of event)/2.


The last place finisher gets a Position Score equal to W/2. For players in between, the Position Score drops by a constant amount from one  position in the final standings to the next. That constant amount, the Drop, is given by Drop = (1/6) * Strength/(N - 1) where N is the number of players entered. All calculations are rounded to the nearest integer.

EXAMPLE.

In a certain flight the final standings and Grade Equivalents are as follows:
Pos Player Grade PS

1 Daniel Lovelock 2082 776 
2 Robert Lasinger 1907 724 
3 John Knight 1992 673 
4 Paul Lighthill 1498 621 
5 Charles Lawson 1555 569 
6 Diane Pettigrew 1828 388

So Strength = (sum of Grades)/(1 + number of Grades) 
= 10862/7
= 1551.7

Winner's Score = Strenth/2 = 1551.7/2 = 776 (rounded)
Drop = (1/6) * Strength/(Number entered - 1)
= (1/6) * 1552/5
= 52 (rounded)

So the second place finisher gets 776 - 52 = 724, and so on. Note that the last place finisher get the score 776/2 = 388. 

If players are tied at a rank position, each of the tied players gets the same Position Score, namely the average of the Position Scores that would result if the tie were broken. 


RULE POY 2
(a) Every member entered in a competition event becomes  classified for the duration of that event into one of four divisions 

Blue, Red, Black or Yellow according to Grade, as follows:

BLUE: Grades 1601 or higher (Handicaps below 3);
RED: Grades 1201 through 1600 (Handicaps 3 through 7);
BLACK: Grades 1001 through 1200 (Handicaps 8 through 11);
YELLOW: Grades 1000 or lower; (Handicaps 12 or higher) 

(b) A `supplementary Position Score' means a Position Score obtained in 

a supplementary event. The Final Score of a member in a Division is the sum of the HIGHEST THREE Position Scores obtained by that member in that Division, subject to the following restrictions. Every member may include ONE supplementary Position Score in the Final Score. A member who had played in at least three Canadian events by the end of the competition year may include TWO supplementary Position Scores in the Final Score of any Division.

A member who wants a supplementary Position Score to count as allowed above, must arrange for the relevant official information to be in the hands of the Tournaments Coordinator within THREE DAYS of the end of the competition year or within ONE MONTH after the event, whichever comes first. This information comprises the final standings together with official Handicaps or Grades of all entered nonmembers.


RULE POY 3.
The member with the highest Final Score in a Division is the Player of the Year in that Division. The Player of the Year in the Blue Division will also be known as the Player of the Year.

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CROQUET CANADA CLUBS OF THE YEAR COMPETITION

RULE COY 1
The definitions in the Player of the Year competitions apply.

RULE COY 2. 
Position Scores are determined as described in the Player of the Year competition (rule POY 1).

RULE COY 3.
For the purpose of these rules, a Club Member of a Member Club means a member of Croquet Canada who
(i) is a member in good standing of that club, pays the regular annual dues and actively plays at that club (possibly also at other clubs);

(ii) has, no later than 30 September, designated that club as recipient of his Position Scores for the current competition year. 
Such designation will automatically be deemed to have been made in case of players who belong to only one Member Club.

A Member Contribution in a division is the sum of the HIGHEST THREE  Position Scores obtained by a club member in events in that division.  Supplementary Position Scores (see rule POY 2) may be counted towards a  Member Contribution, but for the purpose of this rule there is no distinction between Supplementary event and Canadian event as regards the number of scores allowed. As in rule POY 2, the Tournaments Coordinator must receive the appropriate official information within THREE DAYS of the end of the competition year.

A Club Score in a division is the sum of the FOUR HIGHEST Member Contributions in that Division by members of that club. The club with the highest Club Scorein a Division is the Club of the Year in that Division.