USTA NTRP Ratings Webinar

[ShaunS]

The Central Indiana Tennis Association (CITA) is hosting a webinar on NTRP with Heather Hawkes - Senior Manager of Events and Ratings. Thought some of you might be interested in listening in.
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Are NTRP ratings a mystery to you?

USTA Central Indiana welcomes

Heather Hawkes
Senior Manager of Events and Ratings
USTA National Campus

NTRP webinar

“We will cover NTRP FAQs, Facts and Fiction, other rating sites, and have plenty of time for questions.”

When: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7pm – 8pm Central Time

Joining info: https://meet.google.com/ddg-ikes-abp

Or dial: +1 402-867-1310 PIN: 291181#​

 

[schmke]

Heather has done a number of these around the country. I wrote a bit about her visit to Seattle on my blog and my LLC had made a video of it, but it seems to not be available now. Trying to track down a new location for it.

 

[ShaunS]

Heather has done a number of these around the country.

I haven't heard it before, would you say it's worthwhile for us regular folks?

Trying to track down a new location for it.

If you can't find somewhere to serve it up, I could host it. I've got unused capacity/bandwidth.

 

[schmke]

I haven't heard it before, would you say it's worthwhile for us regular folks?

If you are interested in hearing from the USTA on the topic, sure, it is worthwhile. I will say that most of what was covered was information I already knew and have written about or is on my FAQ, but it was good to confirm all that.

If you can't find somewhere to serve it up, I could host it. I've got unused capacity/bandwidth.

I updated my blog entry with a link to the Portland video, Google "Video from USTA NTRP meeting" to find my blog entry. Note that was nearly a year ago so my guess is the presentation and content may have changed slightly.

 

[ShaunS]

I will say that most of what was covered was information I already knew and have written about or is on my FAQ, but it was good to confirm all that.

No surprise. That 'regular folks' tag was meant to exclude you specifically

 

[R1FF]

Im not sure Heather understands the core issue. The ratings computer isnt so much the problem or a mystery. It's the humans involved.

Until regional reps get busted & held accountable for enabling sandbagging, what's a computer system going to do?

The self rating & allowance of players to go back down levels after taking self imposed breaks IS THE PROBLEM. Does anyone at the regional level police this? Not at all. Tournament Directors could easily step in, they dont. League supervisors could easily step in, they dont.

It seems to me that the computer system is just there so that the sanctioning body can avoid any accountability on their end.