Challenge Ladder

[@ce]

I am looking to setup a pyramid type challenge ladder at the high school that I coach at. However, I don't remember what all of the rules for this type of ladder are. I do remember that whatever level a player is on, they can challenge anyone on that level. But I'm not sure about challenges up to a different level. Is anyone familiar with this type of challenge ladder and how it is suppose to function?

[Marius_Hancu]

check
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=41392
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=26871
perhaps it helps

[@ce]

Thanks for the info. What I'm really looking for is specifics on how this type of ladder works and not so much the points.

[vin]

There is a ladder around here with almost 200 members. Skill ranges from 2.5 to 4.5. Anyone can challenge anyone to a match. When you win, you move one spot ahead of your opponent. If you beat an opponent ranked lower than you, you advance one spot. If you beat an opponent that is more than 15 spots ahead of you, you advance 15 spots.

What I like best is that there are ladder 'events' that you can sign up for. These are ordinary matches, but the ladder coordinator selects your opponent. The key to this is a good coordinator.

I enjoy it. It's a great way to meet people and be exposed to different styles of play and abilities.

Hope that helps.

[Geezer Guy]

TennisEngine.com will allow you to set up a ladder on-line. Then, people just sign-on, challenge each other, and record the scores. All the ladder movement is automated and updated real-time. I play on several ladders on this website. It's not GREAT, but it's not bad (and it's free).

[peter]

TennisEngine.com will allow you to set up a ladder on-line. Then, people just sign-on, challenge each other, and record the scores. All the ladder movement is automated and updated real-time. I play on several ladders on this website. It's not GREAT, but it's not bad (and it's free).

Not GREAT, not bad - but broken... It refuses me to create
a new league and admin. Ah well.

[floortiger]

@ce -

The way I remember it in high school was this -

1. A ladder is formed first using either a round robin format, last year's rankings, subjective opinions, something.

2. A player can challenge up to 2 spots above his/her ranking.

3. The player that wins can then continune to challenge up until he/she looses. The player that looses must accept a challenge from below.

We used this in high school for positions 4 - 10. The top 3 guys were "untouchables", but all the other positions were up for grabs on a weekly basis. It was up to the players to set up the matches and most were played on weekends. If a player was known to try to dodge another, the coach may get involved or the match would be played at practice, after school in front of the team. Sometimes we would have an entire practice of challenge matches.

Wow, this brings back a ton of memories - - both good and bad.

[Mahboob Khan]

You use a round robin format to creat a ladder. Once the ladder is set up say you have 20 players on the ladder, you adopt a Ladder Challenge system which works like this:

1. A player can challenge a player one or two spot above him. The challenge is posted with the Ladder Commissioner. The challenged must accept the challenge within 24 hours otherwise he loses his place to the challenger.

2. The Ladder Commissioner sets the date, time, and court number for this ladder match which is played best of three sets with "no ad scoring".

3. The challenger brings 3 new balls for the match (or the club can provide balls).

4. If the challenger wins, he takes the position of the challenged. If the challenger loses, no harm done, the challenged keeps his position.

5. The Ladder Commissioner may also declare free season in which any body can challenge any body on the ladder!

6. And this process continues.

My experience is that the Ladder system is used for singles. Can you use it for doubles also? Don't you think using this system for doubles may pose problems? How about if your partner with whom you had already played a match does not show up? You can't change your partners midway through! Any thoughts?

[@ce]

I really just need to know how a pyramid ladder works? This is for a high school team.