Last year I started to join Bailrigg team for their annual District badminton league (www.lancasterbadminton.org). They have A & B teams and I was immediately drafted into an A team. The tournament started from 27th September 2006 and finished on the 14th March 2007. It was a grueling tournament since you had to play 18 matches (home and away) and for each match you had to play 6 sets with your partner within 3 hours. They are still using the old point scoring system (15 points) but I heard for the new upcoming season they are considering the new rally points scoring system (21 points). I have no preference really, but a game with the new system tends to finish faster than the old one.We lost 4 matches in our first 5, and things doesn't looked good at the time considering our main player, Paul Taylor is still out injured. However, when he finally recovered by mid December, we won two matches in a row. In the end, we managed to get a respectable fourth position in the second division (see table above). In the Riley Cup (knock out competition) we lost to eventual runner up, Ascension A in the quarter final. Overall, it was a good season considering that Paul was injured for the first 2-3 months and there are two new male players in the team. Bailrigg A is always in the second division (they are 5th during the 2003/04 season but third in both 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons) but Bailrigg B has made a commendable comeback by being promoted to the third division after finishing second in the fourth division.
Some statistics:
Points won by my double: 58/158 = 36.7% for league and 6/23 = 26% for cup
Percentage winning home matches = 73
Percentage of sets won with Brenda = 58%
Percentage of sets won with Tim = 53%
Percentage of sets won with Paul = 55%
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