2024 Team Competition - Leaderboard and Information

LEADERBOARD

The leaderboard after Saturday 27 April 2024. The Fireballs are collapsing this April. Maybe they can't stand the heat. Maybe they have done enough already this year. Their first 4th place finish of the season occurred at Vintage yesterday where we also had a new situation where there was a tie for 1at place. So Stingers and Dragons shared the 17 event points on offer. It means Stingers get closer to Fireballs and Dragons are showing signs of life and 4 Aces are clearly waiting for the next inter-team MatchPlay.

Here's the current table:

TEAM MEMBERS

The more active team players:

The inactive or occasional team players:

BACKGROUND

This exciting team event will run again in 2024 after a successful first competition in 2023 (won by Dragons). There are 4 teams, each with a captain:
Dragons - Ami Guilfoyle, Fireballs - Steven Brader / Richard White, 4 Aces - Craig Leamy, Stingers - Dietmar Bandat / Stefan Kuhn
Every active* member of the Londoners group in True Handicap is a member of a team (decided at the start of 2023 by a NFL style draft followed by round robin assignment). New Londoner members are assigned a team based on the number of currently active players to maintain fairness.

Points are awarded based on positions achieved at regular events (just like the Order of Merit e.g. if 32 players participate in an event then the winner scores 32 points, 2nd place scores 31 and so on right down to last place who scores 1 point) and the total of the points won at each event will decide which team won the event. Points are then awarded to form a league table:
1st placed team - 10 points
2nd placed team - 7 points
3rd placed team - 5 points
4th placed team - 4 points

As well as team points being awarded at Strokeplay event there will also be an InterTeam Matchplay part to the competition at Rivalry Events. There will be 3 of these and each team will play each other once. The Rivalry Events are scheduled for to be decided. Captains will choose 6 players** from their team to face off in 2 pairs and 2 singles.

Team MatchPlay Details

Schedule:

Inter-team MatchPlay #1: Saturday 9 March at Floraville

Inter-team MatchPlay #2: Saturday 10 August at Muang Kaew

Team 1 vs Team 3: x - y which corresponds to 3x - 3y league points
Team 2 vs Team 4 : x - y which corresponds to 3x - 3y league points

Inter-team MatchPlay #3: Saturday 26 October at Vintage

Team 1 vs Team 4: x - y which corresponds to 3x - 3y league points
Team 2 vs Team 3 : x - y which corresponds to 3x - 3y league points

Format of Interteam MatchPlay competition:

6 players per team (2 pairs and 2 singles). Captain’s choice.
Matchplay. 1 point for front 9; 1 point for back 9; 2 points for overall. 4 points awarded per game (just like the inter-society format).
*all players are in the StrokePlay individual competition, Team competition and Order of Merit same as normal – Strokeplay rules take precedence i.e. no gives; players must hole out.

Scoring:

16 points available (as 4 matches between each team during a Rivalry event)
Multiplier of 3 in operation to give MatchPlay additional weighting versus the Strokeplay comps
Plus 10 bonus points to the winning team (5 points for a tie; 0 for a loss)
Total points available – 58 (in theory a team could win by 58 to 0)