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Latest Rankings - Issued on 01 May 2010 Men * Ladies * Ranking System 1. Purpose of the Namibian National Rankings a. The main purpose of the Namibian National Rakings is to provide a fair indication of the current strength of the active player base within the country. b. Provide a seeding list for tournaments c. Provide a base list for selecting a group to be invited to trials to select Invitational and National Teams to represent Namibia d. Provide a list for selecting a group to be invited to take part in the National Top 16 tournaments. 2. Rankings System Base Information a. Rankings will be published on the first working day of every month. The rankings will be published on the NSA website and emailed to the chairpersons of all NSA affiliated clubs. b. Rankings will reflect the club affiliation of a player and the Nationality of a player. c. All Squash players with Namibian Citizenship, Namibian Permanent Residence or Temporary Residence who are residing in Namibia qualify for the Namibian rankings. The player needs to be resident in Namibia for a minimum of 3 months during the rankings period. Players with proof that they will reside in Namibia for the minimum of 3 months become eligible on arrival. d. The ranking system is based heavily upon the current PSA Mens’ World Rankings System. e. The rankings year will run over 12 consecutive months, thus the rankings published on 1 April 2009 will be for points obtained in tournaments in the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009. Even if there should be more than 1 tournament in any given month, the rankings will only be changed and published on the 1st working day of the next month. f. Only tournaments affect the rankings. No league matches, challenge matches, club championship matches or masters event matches will have any effect on the rankings. g. The main tournaments that will form the backbone of the rankings will be: i. Namibian Open ii. Namibian Closed iii. Top 16’s h. Even if there could quite possibly be more than 2 Top 16 tournaments in a 12 month cycle, only the last two Top 16 tournaments will be included for points. 3. Tournament Qualification a. Apart from the four events mentioned in 2g, any other tournament may become part of the rankings points system. Tournaments will however be graded according to various categories. These categories include: i. Accessibility – Is the tournament available to all players in Namibia, the players in a certain region, but spanning more than one club, only (ie Windhoek Closed) or is it a closed event for the members of one club only. ii. Draw size – The more players participating in a tournament, the more difficult the event becomes and thus the more points wild be allocated to it. b. Current Tournament Grading will allow for: i. Platinum Event - Maximum of 18600 Points ii. Gold Event - Maximum of 12500 Points iii. Silver Event - Maximum of 10000 Points iv. Bronze Event - Maximum of 7500 Points v. 5 Star Event - Maximum of 4000 Points vi. 4 Star Event - Maximum of 3200 Points vii. 3 Star Event - Maximum of 2400 Points viii. 2 Star Event - Maximum of 1600 Points ix. 1 Star Event - Maximum of 800 Points c. Should the situation warrant it, a Star tournament may be upgraded or downgraded to a “.5” tournament, ie a 2.5 Star or a 1.5 Star event. In such an instance the points available for such a tournament will be the 50% mean between the two relevant stars, thus a 2.5 Star event will be allocated 2000 points. d. Should a tournament have a n A and a B section, the A section will be deemed more prestigious than the B section and the points grading will reflect this. However, there still remains the possibility that the winner of the B section may obtain more points than the last position in the A section. In such an event, the following formula will apply: i. The 1.5 x the points difference between the normal B Section winner allocation and the normal A Section last place will be added to every player in the A Section. Thus, if the winner in the a Section is to receive 400 points, but the last position in the A Section is to receive only 350 points, 75 points will be added to EVERY player in the A section, thus allocating 425 points to the last position in the A section. e. Should not all the players in a section of a draw be eligible for point on the Namibian rankings, those points will be cancelled. The eligible players will however still receive the points they would have gained for their position. Thus, the winner and runner up are foreign players. They were to receive 1800 and 1200 points respectively. The third placed player is eligible for ranking points and was to receive 700 points due to positioning. The 1800 and 1200 points fall away, but the 700 points for third place will still be awarded. f. Organizers of tournaments have to apply for ranking point status before the event and the grading options (indicating what the grading would be for the various possible draw sizes) must be included on all advertisements for the event. g. The average points obtained by a player will generate the ranking position. However, a minimum number of tournaments will apply. The following will be the defined dividers: i. 1 to 6 Tournaments - 5 ii. 7 to 8 Tournaments - 7 iii. 9 to 11 Tournaments - 9 iv. More than 11 - Number of tournaments – 2, minimum of 11 as divider, thus for 12 and 13 tournaments, the divider will be 11. h. A player may participate in as many tournaments that qualify for ranking points as he/she chooses. i. Tournament organizers have to provide full results of any qualifying tournament to the NSA Exco within 48 hours after completion of the tournament. j. Distribution of Points will be in the following way:
k. For Swiss Pairing tournaments, where every position is played out for, a play off factor formula will be applied.
l. The initial base for the rankings, s published on 1 April 2009 will include the following tournaments: i. Namibian Closed 2008 ii. Namibian Open 2008 iii. Top 16 #2 of 2008 iv. Top 16 #1 of 2009 m. New players will be allowed to obtain a “preferential” seeding on NSA approval only. This will also be limited to a maximum of 2 tournaments and will only be applicable to players who did not form part of the Namibian Rankings for a period of at least 36 months or to people who enter the country as new residents. n. This rankings system was designed and is deemed to be fair to all and not for the specific benefit of any individual(s) or group(s).
For more information regarding the Namibian rankings, please mail chair@namsquash .org
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