7.21.21 Golden Ball update–The Playoff Race, 5 days left of regular season!

11 Players are eligible for Playoffs (completed 7 matches by midnight July 25): Rahber (8), Martin (7), Eric Fredlund (9), Eric Meier (8), Dave (7), Boyd (7), Varun (8), Deron (7), Michael (7), Dhanasekar (7), Zoran (8), Chris (8).

Current Top 6 (Championship Tournament):

  1. Rabher: Division Champ #1 (28 points)
  2. Varun: Division Leader #2 (24 points)
  3. Zoran (23 points; tiebreak over Varun on Pct games won)
  4. Jovan: Division Leader #3 (21 points)
  5. Martin (21 points; tiebreak over Eric head to head)
  6. Eric (21 points)
  7. Chris (15.5 points)

Injury and Playoff Updates:

  • Tri is back! and needs 4 matches!
  • Will is rehabbing/uncertain status, needs 2 matches.
  • Boyd, Josh and Nick have ended seasons. Tom is out for season with injury.

PLAYOFF FORMAT
Remember everyone is in playoffs who wants to play Qualie tourney or Finals Bracket:

Championship Tournament 

  • 6 players will qualify for Championship tournament based on Victory Points; the remaining 2 players that make it through the Qualifying Tournament will be seeded based on victory points (7 or 8).
  • Players will be seeded 1-8 by total Victory Points. Division winner with highest points will be #1 seed.   Other  2 division winners will be lowest as 4th seed and will host first round playoff match.
  • Quarterfinals: 1 vs 8, etc. Higher seed has home court for all matches.
  • Single elimination tournament.
  • USTA tournament rules: if an injury occurs, a player forfeits. If a winning player is injured and cannot play in the next round, he has to forfeit (3 day grace period).
  • Championship Tournament ends September 15 – hard stop.
  • There will be no “fill-in players” once a tournaments starts due to injury. If player withdraws BEFORE the tournament starts, then “lucky Loser” will be placed into draw. (advanced furthest in qualies AND has highest victory points)  
  • Higher regular season victory points of two qualifiers will be the 7th seed, other is 8th seed.

Qualifying Tournament

Players not in the top 6 of Victory points will be placed into two draws. Winner of each of the two draws will be the 2 Qualifiers and 7th or 8th seed in the Championship Tournament.