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 MiCPS-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 5th annual, Michigan Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (MiCPS-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 *****************
* December 7th 2014 - DGLA Player level registration cutoff -
* Get both Winter & Summer for same low price of only $30 bucks
* and you get a Players package....
* January 15th - deadline for adding new leagues to the MiCPS-W Point series.
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Now if you’re a "Player" and want to show your support even more and want to have skin in the game and get a return on your performance, for $30 you can become a DGLA Player level member for the year.
You get a commemorative DGLA Michigan Cooperative Point Series 2015 MEMBER putter, a DGLA Mini, Lifetime membership number, and contribute to the DGLA Member Course Improvement Grant program that you get to vote on how it is used, along with helping to decide improvements to the Point Series and you are eligible for awards based on your final point standing as compared to the other Player Members Winter 2015.
We support all the effort and the great events the MDGO supports each year. The culmination of this is the State-wide Championships in Ludington in September and we hope to be able to award some Berths to our top Player level performers again this year. An amazing event you don't want to miss.
Note there are two Leaderboards for the MiCPS one for all players and a separate one for just the Player level members to see how you are doing compared to the other Player level members. Awards and berths are based on this DGLA Player leaderboard. Top 40 players receive awarded and if you join before Dec 7th you get Summer as well for Free. Cha Ching!
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To get Winter and Summer 2014 Point Series you must be a DGLA Player level Member by Dec 7th 2015 when we lock the Player Member list for the Winter Season.
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Thanks for supporting DGLA and helping to support the Disc Golf Courses in Michigan. www.discgolfleagueassociation.org A Michigan Non-Profit organization helping disc golf players, clubs and leagues.
This year clubs/leagues must Opt-In to the MiCPS. Meaning any player or league admin of a league who wants to get MiCPS-W points for their regular league rounds needs to ensure that they post on the MiCPS-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! as well as we try to acknowledge those players who try to attend the most HLW as possible and 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 willing 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.
Do you and your friends exchange stories about who played in the deepest snow or coldest temps? We hope we can help determine that for the state and provide some extra exposure for those who played and survived. When you post and you think it was extreme provide the average fairway snow depth and the actual coldest temp you encountered during the round (links to pictures would be AWESOME) and at the end of the season we will go back and update the schedule for the deepest snow and coldest temp during a winter League round and those two rounds for the state will get TRIPLE points and the bragging rights until next year. I survived winter 2014 - Bring on that Polar Vortex.... Lake effect welcomed. But I'm betting on the Yoopers for these records but it could happen any place in Michigan ....
If either Temp or Snow depth meet the criteria post in the comments section (league name, date & temp or snow depth) and by the end of the week we will update the schedule to show the Double Points - maybe Triple points for the luck few who survive the coldest & deepest wrath of the 2015 Polar Vortex..... Anyone who played in the round can make the post. The double points will be updated right before the weekly and monthly stats lock for the leaderboard. If someone posts late we will still update and the players will get the double points toward their overall point total but the weekly and monthly leaderboards lock 2 days after the week or month. Weeks run from Sunday to Saturday for weekly leaderboards and Best Two rounds of the week.
I'm excited that in Ohio and Oregon we have been able to add some local players to the State-wide Point Series Staff in those states. We welcome those who would like to be more involved from just helping to spread the word while playing rounds, to collecting ideas, questions and News that we can discuss and share with others to help grow disc golf and leagues, and even helping to post temp and snow double points or improving News posts directly - Maybe shorter posts ;-) We welcome all news and ideas to help Michigan Disc Golf clubs, events or players achievements, let us know your news or info - help spread the good word.
The first MiCPS Winter point series had 349 players in 15 leagues and last winter had 450 players in 32 leagues and last summer had 831 players in 42 leagues. We are starting our 2nd year in Ohio and Oregon as well. At DGLA we hope to grow as we help grow disc golf leagues and you are a big part of that mission and in achieving success and it all benefits all disc golf players. Thanks!
Quick Recap of last years Point Series:
DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014
450 total players - 32 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Jay B INSANITY DGC 953 45
2 Justin Dean 690 28
3 Scott Sprow 655 25
4 Ben Ross lostdisctribe.com 651 27
5 Scottie Reslock 614 29
6 Jeff Lozowsky 584 23
7 Wade Calvert 549 26
8 Foz Miller 525 28 (Say What? - recheck those stats ;-)
9 samuel smith 502 18
10 Ben Calhoun 500 18
DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2014
831 total players - 42 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Geoff Bennett 1,301 55
2 Taggart Anderson 1,124 53
3 samuel smith 1,060 68
4 Jay B INSANITY DGC 893 54
5 Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 857 30
6 derek "d.roc " evans 807 26
7 Scottie Reslock 806 50
8 Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 799 48
9 ken parks 794 34
10 Smitty the angry lefty 751 29
The DGLA MiCPS 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 Michigan State Disc Golf League Winter & Summer Champions.
Earn points for every round you play in a participating leagues throughout Michigan.
Leagues Coordinators, or players can Opt in to the MiCPS - Once your league is active on Disc Golf Scene send us the URL (link) of your league to join. Any Michigan league that has rounds played any time between Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015 are eligible for the MiCPS-W 2015. The deadline to add new leagues is Jan 15th 2015.
** Leagues can always run outside the MiCPS dates but MiCPS points will only accumulate for rounds played between these dates.
Cost: There is no fee to be in the MiCPS-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 Michigan. DGLA is 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 MiCPS points are calculated independently, allowing league more flexibility to continue with their legacy systems or try new point systems.
MiCPS automatically keeps your best TWO rounds per week (Sunday - Saturday) when calculating your MiCPS 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 Michigan State Championships berths for the MiCPS-Winter season. More ways to secure your berth and compete in another great Michigan state-wide disc golf event.
Disc Golf Scene has added weekly & monthly awards to your profile based on MiCPS rounds. That’s more Disc Golf Scene Bling for your profile.
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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 MiCPS you represent the core Michigan 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 MiCPS please post your comments or send us a message.
Thanks and enjoy the Rounds. May the Course be with you.
DGLA: Michigan Polar Vortex Point Series 2015
AKA: DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014/15 *** Fifth Annual ***
http://www.discgolfscene.com/leagues/DGLA_Michigan_Cooperative_Point_Series_Winter_2014_15_Fifth_Annual
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 MiCPS-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 5th annual, Michigan Cooperative Point Series – Winter, (MiCPS-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 *****************
* December 7th 2014 - DGLA Player level registration cutoff -
* Get both Winter & Summer for same low price of only $30 bucks
* and you get a Players package....
* January 15th - deadline for adding new leagues to the MiCPS-W Point series.
******************************************
Now if you’re a "Player" and want to show your support even more and want to have skin in the game and get a return on your performance, for $30 you can become a DGLA Player level member for the year.
You get a commemorative DGLA Michigan Cooperative Point Series 2015 MEMBER putter, a DGLA Mini, Lifetime membership number, and contribute to the DGLA Member Course Improvement Grant program that you get to vote on how it is used, along with helping to decide improvements to the Point Series and you are eligible for awards based on your final point standing as compared to the other Player Members Winter 2015.
We support all the effort and the great events the MDGO supports each year. The culmination of this is the State-wide Championships in Ludington in September and we hope to be able to award some Berths to our top Player level performers again this year. An amazing event you don't want to miss.
Note there are two Leaderboards for the MiCPS one for all players and a separate one for just the Player level members to see how you are doing compared to the other Player level members. Awards and berths are based on this DGLA Player leaderboard. Top 40 players receive awarded and if you join before Dec 7th you get Summer as well for Free. Cha Ching!
*************************************
To get Winter and Summer 2014 Point Series you must be a DGLA Player level Member by Dec 7th 2015 when we lock the Player Member list for the Winter Season.
*************************************
Thanks for supporting DGLA and helping to support the Disc Golf Courses in Michigan. www.discgolfleagueassociation.org A Michigan Non-Profit organization helping disc golf players, clubs and leagues.
This year clubs/leagues must Opt-In to the MiCPS. Meaning any player or league admin of a league who wants to get MiCPS-W points for their regular league rounds needs to ensure that they post on the MiCPS-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! as well as we try to acknowledge those players who try to attend the most HLW as possible and 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 willing 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.
Do you and your friends exchange stories about who played in the deepest snow or coldest temps? We hope we can help determine that for the state and provide some extra exposure for those who played and survived. When you post and you think it was extreme provide the average fairway snow depth and the actual coldest temp you encountered during the round (links to pictures would be AWESOME) and at the end of the season we will go back and update the schedule for the deepest snow and coldest temp during a winter League round and those two rounds for the state will get TRIPLE points and the bragging rights until next year. I survived winter 2014 - Bring on that Polar Vortex.... Lake effect welcomed. But I'm betting on the Yoopers for these records but it could happen any place in Michigan ....
If either Temp or Snow depth meet the criteria post in the comments section (league name, date & temp or snow depth) and by the end of the week we will update the schedule to show the Double Points - maybe Triple points for the luck few who survive the coldest & deepest wrath of the 2015 Polar Vortex..... Anyone who played in the round can make the post. The double points will be updated right before the weekly and monthly stats lock for the leaderboard. If someone posts late we will still update and the players will get the double points toward their overall point total but the weekly and monthly leaderboards lock 2 days after the week or month. Weeks run from Sunday to Saturday for weekly leaderboards and Best Two rounds of the week.
I'm excited that in Ohio and Oregon we have been able to add some local players to the State-wide Point Series Staff in those states. We welcome those who would like to be more involved from just helping to spread the word while playing rounds, to collecting ideas, questions and News that we can discuss and share with others to help grow disc golf and leagues, and even helping to post temp and snow double points or improving News posts directly - Maybe shorter posts ;-) We welcome all news and ideas to help Michigan Disc Golf clubs, events or players achievements, let us know your news or info - help spread the good word.
The first MiCPS Winter point series had 349 players in 15 leagues and last winter had 450 players in 32 leagues and last summer had 831 players in 42 leagues. We are starting our 2nd year in Ohio and Oregon as well. At DGLA we hope to grow as we help grow disc golf leagues and you are a big part of that mission and in achieving success and it all benefits all disc golf players. Thanks!
Quick Recap of last years Point Series:
DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Winter 2014
450 total players - 32 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Jay B INSANITY DGC 953 45
2 Justin Dean 690 28
3 Scott Sprow 655 25
4 Ben Ross lostdisctribe.com 651 27
5 Scottie Reslock 614 29
6 Jeff Lozowsky 584 23
7 Wade Calvert 549 26
8 Foz Miller 525 28 (Say What? - recheck those stats ;-)
9 samuel smith 502 18
10 Ben Calhoun 500 18
DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2014
831 total players - 42 participating leagues
All Leaderboards · Overall Points
Player Points Rounds
1 Geoff Bennett 1,301 55
2 Taggart Anderson 1,124 53
3 samuel smith 1,060 68
4 Jay B INSANITY DGC 893 54
5 Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 857 30
6 derek "d.roc " evans 807 26
7 Scottie Reslock 806 50
8 Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 799 48
9 ken parks 794 34
10 Smitty the angry lefty 751 29
The DGLA MiCPS 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 Michigan State Disc Golf League Winter & Summer Champions.
Earn points for every round you play in a participating leagues throughout Michigan.
Leagues Coordinators, or players can Opt in to the MiCPS - Once your league is active on Disc Golf Scene send us the URL (link) of your league to join. Any Michigan league that has rounds played any time between Sunday Nov 23rd 2014 - Saturday Feb 28th 2015 are eligible for the MiCPS-W 2015. The deadline to add new leagues is Jan 15th 2015.
** Leagues can always run outside the MiCPS dates but MiCPS points will only accumulate for rounds played between these dates.
Cost: There is no fee to be in the MiCPS-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 Michigan. DGLA is 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 Michigan 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 MiCPS points are calculated independently, allowing league more flexibility to continue with their legacy systems or try new point systems.
MiCPS automatically keeps your best TWO rounds per week (Sunday - Saturday) when calculating your MiCPS 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 Michigan State Championships berths for the MiCPS-Winter season. More ways to secure your berth and compete in another great Michigan state-wide disc golf event.
Disc Golf Scene has added weekly & monthly awards to your profile based on MiCPS 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 MiCPS you represent the core Michigan 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 MiCPS please post your comments or send us a message.
Thanks and enjoy the Rounds. May the Course be with you.