US Squash Announces New “Age-Up” Junior Rankings Policy
from DailySquashReport.com
September 26, 2011 - US Squash has announced that a new “age-up” policy has gone into effect as of the September 19th rankings calculation.
The policy is spelled out as follows:
Aging Up Into a New Division
When a player reaches his or her birthday and ages into a new division, his or her ranking will be removed from the previous division.
Current Policy through September 19th, 2011:
Any tournaments that fall within the 10-month window will be carried over into the rankings for the new age division. The points earned in these tournaments will be multiplied by .6 before being moved into the new rankings. 10 months after the completion of the tournament, the points earned in that tournament will fall off the player’s ranking in the new age group just as they would have in the original age
category.
Policy adjustment to take effect September 19th, 2011:
Tournaments from the younger age division will be carried over into the rankings for the older age division. These tournaments will count as exposures in the new age division. The points earned in each of these individual tournaments will be multiplied by .4 before being factored into the rankings of the new division.
As a player plays tournaments in the new age division, tournaments from the lower age division are removed from their average and exposure count. For instance, when a player ages up into the GU17 division and has 2 tournaments already played in that division, her average would be 4 based off those two tournaments (regardless of what she earned in those events), and her 2highest points-earned GU15 tournaments converted at 40%. When she plays a third GU17 tournament, another GU15 tournament will fall off.
Once a player ages up in this policy, their exposure count is reset to a maximum of 4 tournaments until that player has played more than 4 tournament in the new older age division.
This change in policy will affect players both retroactively (those who aged up prior to September 19th, 2011), and moving forward after September 19th, 2011.
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