Well the cold air is blowing in, along with frost and a few flakes to signal it's time for some great Winter Disc Golf and so the OrCPS-W is about to kick-off and I wanted to provide an overview and some exciting news for new and previous players.
The Disc Golf League Association (DGLA) is proud to bring you the 2nd annual, Oregon Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (OrCPS-W) 2015 season.
14 week State Wide Disc Golf League Point Series
Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015
FREE to all league players who play participating leagues and free to the leagues/clubs as well.
********** IMPORTANT *****************
* January 15th - deadline for adding new leagues to the OrCPS-W Point series.
******************************************
This year clubs/leagues must Opt-In to the OrCPS. Meaning any player or league admin of a league who wants to get OrCPS-W points for their regular league rounds needs to ensure that they post on the OrCPS-W Comments page or send a message to one of the league admin. Please include the link to the league page, it is really helpful to reduce effort and mistakes - Thanks
Also this year leagues can join and decide if they want to have a Highlighted League of the Week (HLW) or not. Some feedback that not all clubs/league are set-up to accommodate extra players or non-regular players. We understand. Now to help reach our mission to encourage more play and to help spread the good ideas, the HLW was designed to provide extra visibility of what each league does so that the ideas can be looked at to see what if anything others can try to enhance the experience of their players. Players also get extra points - Double Points! in the past as well as we try to acknowledge those players who try to attend as many HLW as possible and also look at how that affects their points and performance. But we also promote different formats and types of leagues and so we try to accommodate adding more without adding addition work to the league admin or negatively impact them in any way.
In the past many players of the Winter Point Series have enjoyed a temperature incentive, Double Points for rounds played where the (Feels Like - with Wind chill) Temperature is below 15 degrees F. If your will to challenge the Polar Vortex you deserve some reward.
Another suggestion recently was to add a Snow Incentive - If during your round you play in 2" or more, or 2" accumulates by the end of the round, Double Points.
If either occur post in the comments section and by the end of the week we will update the schedule to show the Double Points. Anyone who played in that round can make this post. The double points will be updated right before the weekly and monthly stats lock for the leaderbaord. If someone posts late we will update and the players will get the double points toward their overall total but the weekly and monthly leaderboards lock 2 days after the week or month.
Do you and your friends exchange stories about who played in the deepest snow or coldest temps? We will help determine that for the state. When you post provide the average fairway snow depth and the actual coldest temp you encountered during the round, when they are extreme and at the end of the season we will go back and update the schedule for the deepest snow and coldest temp and that will get TRIPLE points.
I'm excited to welcome two local players who were both very successful in the previous OrCPS and who were very active in providing feedback and ideas to help grow and improve the OrCPS and ensure it has an Oregon focus. Rick Saffeels & John "BEAST" Johnston have been added to the staff list and so you have some local players who you can discuss the OrCPS with, ask questions, provide suggestions or news that should be passed along to all Oregon players. You can always do the same directly with me but many times it easier to chat in person during a round or at a event.
The Disc Golf League Association (DGLA) is proud to bring you the 2nd annual, Oregon Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (OrCPS-W) 2015 season.
If there are others who would like to get involved please contact one of the OrCPS, there are many ways to help. Organizations/clubs/leagues with Disc Golf News they would like to get out the Oregon players please send the info to us and we will spread the good word. The first Winter point series had 101 players and 8 leagues and each player has friends who see the info on Disc Golf Scene as well. The summer season had 162 players from 14 leagues. Our largest State-wide point series is currently Michigan which first winter PS had 349 players in 15 leagues and last winter had 450 players in 32 leagues and last summer had 831 players in 42 leagues. At DGLA we hope to grow as we help grow disc golf leagues and you are a big part of that mission and success that benefits all disc golf players.
Quick Recap of last years Point Series:
DGLA: Oregon Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014
101 total players - 8 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Rick Saffeels 497 27
2 THE "BEAST" OF THE WOODS 385 25
3 - scottishrob - 350 20
4 Jesse Walker 335 24
5 Erik Gyllenskog 333 28
6 AGRO JACKSON 229 14
7 RYAN ROWLEY 228 14
8 Ira B 222 16
8 Tiger Discs 222 16
10 Jonathan Long 212 12
DGLA: Oregon Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2014
162 total players - 14 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Rick Saffeels 687 31
2 Dallas Trower 593 34
3 L Bledsoe 580 39
4 Brandon Zastoupil 539 31
5 Steve Jones 514 34
6 THE "BEAST" OF THE WOODS 483 31
7 Ira B 478 37
8 - scottishrob - 471 32
9 Daneger Jones 460 33
9 Albert "AJ" Ricker 460 14
The DGLA OrCPS brings leagues and players closer together for more fun, to help exchange ideas and grow the sport of Disc Golf. Through the use of Disc Golf Scene all the scores, pictures, videos and chat from all leagues and players come together, enabling all the players throughout the state to see what players are doing, what each league is up to and what is new at each of the courses. Growing the sport of Disc Golf together and coming together to crown the Oregon State Disc Golf League Winter & Summer Champions.
Earn points for every round you play in a participating leagues throughout Oregon.
Leagues Coordinators, or players can Opt in to the OrCPS - Once your league is online send us the URL of your league on DiscGolfScene.com to join. Any Oregon league that has rounds played any time between Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015 are eligible for the OrCPS-W 2015. The deadline to add new leagues is Jan 15th 2015.
** Leagues can always run outside the OrCPS dates but OrCPS points will only accumulate for rounds played between these dates.
Cost: There is no fee to be in the OrCPS-W 2015, you just play league rounds in participating leagues and your scores are automatically included. You must have a Disc Golf Scene profile which is also free.
Thanks for supporting DGLA and helping to support the Disc Golf Clubs/Courses in Oregon. A Non-Profit organization helping disc golf players, clubs and leagues.
The DGLA website is currently down as we prepare for the future - more soon. www.discgolfleagueassociation.org
Points calculation:
The Point Series point calculation tries to encourage players to play often yet and yet not penalize those who cannot play more than once or twice a week. We also try to encourage all league to participate by a three tier approached based on league size for the points accrual – League below 20 players get a boast, league greater than 60 have a points cap.
During a week (Sunday to Saturday) points are calculated for each participating league round you play. The highest TWO point total from any participating league are added into your total and the others are "dropped". Winter Aces are worth 25 points even if that league round is dropped. League round points are basically calculated by adding 2 points for participation and one point for every player you beat and if there is no tie for first place the winner(s) gets 2 additional points for being the "Out Right Winner". Now that basic calculation are further adjusted to encourage small leagues and balance out larger leagues using three levels; 4-19 players, 20-59, and 60+ players. The points awarded are different for each group. The smaller league rounds will get a guaranteed max point total the same as 20 players, the middle size league round are calculated as described above and the larger league rounds have a cap with max points being set to 60 players - Details can be reviewed at www.discgolfleagueassociation.org
Scores must be entered the same as leagues determine payouts; If Divisions are used for payouts than scores must be entered by division. If handicaps are used for payouts then the handicap adjusted scores must be entered. (Disc Golf Scene is looking at offering a automated Handicap system which will bring more leagues into the point series and eventually maybe have point series for the different types of league formats - more when info is available - Thanks! Pete and Disc Golf Scene for all you do for all the disc golf players around the World!!!!!).
Cali - If there is one Cali in a double league they are counted as two players but if there is more than one Cali than they are only counted as one when calculating point totals. This ensures leagues can have special Cali rounds with multiple players playing Cali, but the point totals are accurate based on the number of actual players that played the round.
As always leagues can use their own points system or no point when entering league rounds, as the OrCPS points are calculated independently, allowing league more flexibility to continue with their legacy systems or try new point systems.
OrCPS automatically keeps your best TWO rounds per week (Sunday - Saturday) when calculating your OrCPS total points. This is automatically recalculated whenever new scores/rounds are posted or scores are updated. Get out and play as much as you can to increase your skill and maximize your points but if you are limited to how often you can play your goal would be to try and get at least two rounds per week.
Winter Aces: Worth 25 points – League Admin – this is automatically calculated so if you want to use a different point system for your individual league Aces you can.
DGLA will also be awarding some MDGO, Discraft Oregon State Championships berths for the OrCPS-Winter season. More ways to secure your berth and compete in another great Oregon state-wide disc golf event.
Disc Golf Scene has added weekly & monthly awards to your profile based on OrCPS rounds. That’s more Disc Golf Scene Bling for your profile.
********************************
There are more leagues than ever so get out to some new courses or new leagues and see what is going on throughout the state. Don't overlook the smaller leagues - they tend to incorporate new ideas faster, have a really friendly group feel and you get introduce to the new courses with the locals who know them best. I also highly recommend making it out to one of the larger leagues as well to experience the energy of all those players coming together at one time, yet in a slightly more casual environment than a tournament. Bottom line, get out and play often!!!! & Enjoy the Rounds.
As a player in the OrCPS you represent the core Oregon Disc Golf players and you can really help make this sport better. Help pass along the Disc Golf etiquette that makes rounds fun and fair for all. Encourage new players and pass along some tips to help them improve and enjoy the sport even more. Bring a friend out and expose them to leagues. If you pack it in, pack it out - or at least make sure it ends up in a trash can. Keeping the courses clean is critical to keeping our courses.
We have naturally beautiful courses let's help keep them that way.
If you have questions or ideas concerning DGLA or the OrCPS please post your comments or send us a message.
DGLA: Oregon Polar Vortex Point Series 2015
AKA: DGLA: Oregon Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014/15
http://www.discgolfscene.com/leagues/DGLA_Oregon_Cooperative_Point_Series_Winter_2014_15
Well the cold air is blowing in, along with frost and a few flakes to signal it's time for some great Winter Disc Golf and so the OrCPS-W is about to kick-off and I wanted to provide an overview and some exciting news for new and previous players.
The Disc Golf League Association (DGLA) is proud to bring you the 2nd annual, Oregon Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (OrCPS-W) 2015 season.
14 week State Wide Disc Golf League Point Series
Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015
FREE to all league players who play participating leagues and free to the leagues/clubs as well.
********** IMPORTANT *****************
* January 15th - deadline for adding new leagues to the OrCPS-W Point series.
******************************************
This year clubs/leagues must Opt-In to the OrCPS. Meaning any player or league admin of a league who wants to get OrCPS-W points for their regular league rounds needs to ensure that they post on the OrCPS-W Comments page or send a message to one of the league admin. Please include the link to the league page, it is really helpful to reduce effort and mistakes - Thanks
Also this year leagues can join and decide if they want to have a Highlighted League of the Week (HLW) or not. Some feedback that not all clubs/league are set-up to accommodate extra players or non-regular players. We understand. Now to help reach our mission to encourage more play and to help spread the good ideas, the HLW was designed to provide extra visibility of what each league does so that the ideas can be looked at to see what if anything others can try to enhance the experience of their players. Players also get extra points - Double Points! in the past as well as we try to acknowledge those players who try to attend as many HLW as possible and also look at how that affects their points and performance. But we also promote different formats and types of leagues and so we try to accommodate adding more without adding addition work to the league admin or negatively impact them in any way.
In the past many players of the Winter Point Series have enjoyed a temperature incentive, Double Points for rounds played where the (Feels Like - with Wind chill) Temperature is below 15 degrees F. If your will to challenge the Polar Vortex you deserve some reward.
Another suggestion recently was to add a Snow Incentive - If during your round you play in 2" or more, or 2" accumulates by the end of the round, Double Points.
If either occur post in the comments section and by the end of the week we will update the schedule to show the Double Points. Anyone who played in that round can make this post. The double points will be updated right before the weekly and monthly stats lock for the leaderbaord. If someone posts late we will update and the players will get the double points toward their overall total but the weekly and monthly leaderboards lock 2 days after the week or month.
Do you and your friends exchange stories about who played in the deepest snow or coldest temps? We will help determine that for the state. When you post provide the average fairway snow depth and the actual coldest temp you encountered during the round, when they are extreme and at the end of the season we will go back and update the schedule for the deepest snow and coldest temp and that will get TRIPLE points.
I'm excited to welcome two local players who were both very successful in the previous OrCPS and who were very active in providing feedback and ideas to help grow and improve the OrCPS and ensure it has an Oregon focus. Rick Saffeels & John "BEAST" Johnston have been added to the staff list and so you have some local players who you can discuss the OrCPS with, ask questions, provide suggestions or news that should be passed along to all Oregon players. You can always do the same directly with me but many times it easier to chat in person during a round or at a event.
The Disc Golf League Association (DGLA) is proud to bring you the 2nd annual, Oregon Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (OrCPS-W) 2015 season.
If there are others who would like to get involved please contact one of the OrCPS, there are many ways to help. Organizations/clubs/leagues with Disc Golf News they would like to get out the Oregon players please send the info to us and we will spread the good word. The first Winter point series had 101 players and 8 leagues and each player has friends who see the info on Disc Golf Scene as well. The summer season had 162 players from 14 leagues. Our largest State-wide point series is currently Michigan which first winter PS had 349 players in 15 leagues and last winter had 450 players in 32 leagues and last summer had 831 players in 42 leagues. At DGLA we hope to grow as we help grow disc golf leagues and you are a big part of that mission and success that benefits all disc golf players.
Quick Recap of last years Point Series:
DGLA: Oregon Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014
101 total players - 8 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Rick Saffeels 497 27
2 THE "BEAST" OF THE WOODS 385 25
3 - scottishrob - 350 20
4 Jesse Walker 335 24
5 Erik Gyllenskog 333 28
6 AGRO JACKSON 229 14
7 RYAN ROWLEY 228 14
8 Ira B 222 16
8 Tiger Discs 222 16
10 Jonathan Long 212 12
DGLA: Oregon Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2014
162 total players - 14 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Rick Saffeels 687 31
2 Dallas Trower 593 34
3 L Bledsoe 580 39
4 Brandon Zastoupil 539 31
5 Steve Jones 514 34
6 THE "BEAST" OF THE WOODS 483 31
7 Ira B 478 37
8 - scottishrob - 471 32
9 Daneger Jones 460 33
9 Albert "AJ" Ricker 460 14
The DGLA OrCPS brings leagues and players closer together for more fun, to help exchange ideas and grow the sport of Disc Golf. Through the use of Disc Golf Scene all the scores, pictures, videos and chat from all leagues and players come together, enabling all the players throughout the state to see what players are doing, what each league is up to and what is new at each of the courses. Growing the sport of Disc Golf together and coming together to crown the Oregon State Disc Golf League Winter & Summer Champions.
Earn points for every round you play in a participating leagues throughout Oregon.
Leagues Coordinators, or players can Opt in to the OrCPS - Once your league is online send us the URL of your league on DiscGolfScene.com to join. Any Oregon league that has rounds played any time between Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015 are eligible for the OrCPS-W 2015. The deadline to add new leagues is Jan 15th 2015.
** Leagues can always run outside the OrCPS dates but OrCPS points will only accumulate for rounds played between these dates.
Cost: There is no fee to be in the OrCPS-W 2015, you just play league rounds in participating leagues and your scores are automatically included. You must have a Disc Golf Scene profile which is also free.
Thanks for supporting DGLA and helping to support the Disc Golf Clubs/Courses in Oregon. A Non-Profit organization helping disc golf players, clubs and leagues.
The DGLA website is currently down as we prepare for the future - more soon. www.discgolfleagueassociation.org
Based on player's and league coordinator's ideas and comments and the continued devotion of the DGLA and DGS staff the rules for the DGLA Oregon Statewide Point Series are available here.
http://www.discgolfleagueassociation.org/Point_Series/Summary____Rules/summary____rules.html
Points calculation:
The Point Series point calculation tries to encourage players to play often yet and yet not penalize those who cannot play more than once or twice a week. We also try to encourage all league to participate by a three tier approached based on league size for the points accrual – League below 20 players get a boast, league greater than 60 have a points cap.
During a week (Sunday to Saturday) points are calculated for each participating league round you play. The highest TWO point total from any participating league are added into your total and the others are "dropped". Winter Aces are worth 25 points even if that league round is dropped. League round points are basically calculated by adding 2 points for participation and one point for every player you beat and if there is no tie for first place the winner(s) gets 2 additional points for being the "Out Right Winner". Now that basic calculation are further adjusted to encourage small leagues and balance out larger leagues using three levels; 4-19 players, 20-59, and 60+ players. The points awarded are different for each group. The smaller league rounds will get a guaranteed max point total the same as 20 players, the middle size league round are calculated as described above and the larger league rounds have a cap with max points being set to 60 players - Details can be reviewed at www.discgolfleagueassociation.org
Scores must be entered the same as leagues determine payouts; If Divisions are used for payouts than scores must be entered by division. If handicaps are used for payouts then the handicap adjusted scores must be entered. (Disc Golf Scene is looking at offering a automated Handicap system which will bring more leagues into the point series and eventually maybe have point series for the different types of league formats - more when info is available - Thanks! Pete and Disc Golf Scene for all you do for all the disc golf players around the World!!!!!).
Cali - If there is one Cali in a double league they are counted as two players but if there is more than one Cali than they are only counted as one when calculating point totals. This ensures leagues can have special Cali rounds with multiple players playing Cali, but the point totals are accurate based on the number of actual players that played the round.
As always leagues can use their own points system or no point when entering league rounds, as the OrCPS points are calculated independently, allowing league more flexibility to continue with their legacy systems or try new point systems.
OrCPS automatically keeps your best TWO rounds per week (Sunday - Saturday) when calculating your OrCPS total points. This is automatically recalculated whenever new scores/rounds are posted or scores are updated. Get out and play as much as you can to increase your skill and maximize your points but if you are limited to how often you can play your goal would be to try and get at least two rounds per week.
Winter Aces: Worth 25 points – League Admin – this is automatically calculated so if you want to use a different point system for your individual league Aces you can.
DGLA will also be awarding some MDGO, Discraft Oregon State Championships berths for the OrCPS-Winter season. More ways to secure your berth and compete in another great Oregon state-wide disc golf event.
Disc Golf Scene has added weekly & monthly awards to your profile based on OrCPS rounds. That’s more Disc Golf Scene Bling for your profile.
********************************
There are more leagues than ever so get out to some new courses or new leagues and see what is going on throughout the state. Don't overlook the smaller leagues - they tend to incorporate new ideas faster, have a really friendly group feel and you get introduce to the new courses with the locals who know them best. I also highly recommend making it out to one of the larger leagues as well to experience the energy of all those players coming together at one time, yet in a slightly more casual environment than a tournament. Bottom line, get out and play often!!!! & Enjoy the Rounds.
As a player in the OrCPS you represent the core Oregon Disc Golf players and you can really help make this sport better. Help pass along the Disc Golf etiquette that makes rounds fun and fair for all. Encourage new players and pass along some tips to help them improve and enjoy the sport even more. Bring a friend out and expose them to leagues. If you pack it in, pack it out - or at least make sure it ends up in a trash can. Keeping the courses clean is critical to keeping our courses.
We have naturally beautiful courses let's help keep them that way.
If you have questions or ideas concerning DGLA or the OrCPS please post your comments or send us a message.
Thanks and enjoy the Rounds.