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In its present capacity, The Dwyer Cup is a handicapped cup competition and teams from all 5 divisions enter the competition.
In recent years, and in particularly last year, there has been criticism of the ‘team handicaps’ for this competition with a number of people expressing 2 common views.
Firstly that the team handicaps made the assumption that all team mates were equal ability and thus made the handicaps flawed
Secondly, It was also the view of higher placed sides that if the lower players were quite good then the handicaps would be too much to make up and a number of lower rank sides felt that the handicaps were not harsh enough against the top sides
Following on from this feedback the competition has been revamped and the format will be the same as per the Macdonald, Poytress, Pressman, Hilton & Lomax Cups.
In Closing
Is this system going to work? It will be better than the previous system but ultimately it is untested so we don’t know. There is such a vast spread of abilities throughout the league's that this is a very difficult competition to handicap accurately
The competition will be played like this for this season and then we will review it in the summer of 2010 at the AGM. We believe that the new format will work, it is just a case of setting how high the highest handicap is. If it is clear that this format is favouring the higher division players or lower division players then it will be ‘tweaked’ accordingly in the summer of 2010.
When you play in the Dwyer Cup this season, please give us your feedback. If you think it totally doesn’t work please tell us, If you think it does work please tell us.
We hope you enjoy this years competiton.
