The New Ratings Seem To Be...

[heninfan99]

...Accurate. I wonder how the USTA computer crunches doubles results but I have to say, looking around my league, all the players I thought were playing a level below their skill got bumped. 85% of the top two teams in my league got bumped. The bad part is that much of the camaraderie you build over the course of a season got erased in an instant.

I'm sure there are other posts on this topic but I'm curious how others feel. I'd also like to know who in the USTA actually tweaked or set the standards for the new algorithm. He/she did a pretty good job, I think.

 

[bodieq]

Maybe this is different depending on the particular NTRP division and/or section/area, but I've noticed the opposite. Since so many players got bumped-up at the end of the year, I've seen new teams being formed with the same group of teammates that all got bumped, and now they're still playing together on the same team...just at the next higher division.

 

[heninfan99]

That's cool. On my team only one guy gut bumped to the next level so he's hunting for a team now.

 

[86golf]

Not sure about the context of accurate but I'll say the competition has dropped a bit from last year. I played line 2 doubles @ 4.0 last year and I played a line 2 doubles match last night and the competition was more like a 7.5 match, not an 8.0 match. It is just one match so this perception may change.

 

[heninfan99]

JavierLW in the house?

I'd like to get your opinion on the new rating or maybe a post link if you've covered this already.

 

[dcdoorknob]

Maybe this is different depending on the particular NTRP division and/or section/area, but I've noticed the opposite. Since so many players got bumped-up at the end of the year, I've seen new teams being formed with the same group of teammates that all got bumped, and now they're still playing together on the same team...just at the next higher division.

This is definitely true for me. The bump ups were particularly widespread in my area. The 3.0 team I was on last year was a middle of the road team (finished 6-5 in overall standings), but over half of the team was bumped up to 3.5. Now most of us are on the same 3.5 team this year.

So far we've lost our first 2 matches, but most of the individual matches have been very competitive, with lots of 7-5 and 7-6 sets and 3rd set superbreakers (my #1 singles 3 and 3 loss not withstanding, but even that wasn't a bloodbath).

 

[cak]

My experienced in mixed 8.0 shows the 4.0 women are much closer to the 4.0 men in skill this time around. (In our region more of the men got bumped than the women.)

 

[netman]

Definitely a good move by the USTA. I'm experiencing very competitive matches at 4.0, with many of them being against former "3.5" players.
-k-

 

[mutantducky]

good in some regards but I feel a lot of players got bumped who didn't need to be. I think the USTA wants people to have to play one division and not play two so there will be less issues with defaults after matches played. There are a bunch of players who got bumped but aren't legit 4.0 or whatever rating they are in.