League Rules.

We've been thinking about how this is going to look and work.  The idea is that this July, we do a trial run at putting our own cornhole league together.  If we like it, we expand and improve.  If we don't like it... then we'll have only wasted like 4 or 5 Tuesday nights in the summer.  But I'd like to see it through to the end in this format... unless you're outraged by something stated here.

In recreation school, you learn that if you are organizing a thing, you should set up your rules ahead of time.  These are those rules.  Again, if you don't like them, please post a comment, or write it down so that when we are at the end of the season in August, we can see what worked and what didn't.

Game Rules

• Standard distance - 40ft, or 1 rope length (if the boards are Keith brand and have the distance already marked out)  You can thrown from any point behind the line formed by the front of the board. 

• You must occupy the same side of the board as your partner.  This means each team will have one player with their right arm over the boards, and one team member with their right arm on the outside.

 

• A bag that lands on the board earns one point.  A bag that goes in the hole earns 3 points.  The team with the most points in a round will add the balance of the points from that round to their total score.

• The first team to end a round with 21 or more total points will win that match.  If both teams finish a round with 21 points, a sudden death play off will follow.  The first team to end a round with an advantage will win. 

• Throwing techniques are left up to the individual thrower.  

League scoring

• The league will maintain 4 teams.  Each team will have a captain.  It is the responsibility of each captain to insure that at least two people show up to represent their team each game night.  

• Team stats & individual stats will be kept throughout the season.  

• Team Stats & Standings.  Each week, each team will have an official match against each of the three other teams.  

• Team scores will be tracked in an aggregate points manner.  All points earned in official matches will go towards the team's season points total.  

Individual Scoring

• Individual tossers will receive  +1 point  for participating on a two thrower team that wins an official game.  (regardless of what team they are representing at the time of the win)

• Individual tossers will receive -1 point for participating on a two thrower team that loses an official game.  (Regardless of what team they are representing at the time of the loss)   

• Individuals who throw in a game with more than two members tossing bags on their team, will receive a proportional number of points.  (3 tossers, each gets 2/3 points.  4 tossers, each gets 1/2 a point. and so on.)

Team mobility

• Since this league is informal and nobody has paid in for anything, the possibility exists that participant buy in will be low, or will wane throughout the life of the league.  To insure that each team will have players playing for it, we will implement a representation model.  Each team needs to be represented in each of their official matches. 

• Each player will have a home team.  That is the team they are assigned to originally.  If a player shows up one week and they are not already on a home team, they will be added to one of the captain's roster where they will remain for the rest of the season.  

• If a team is unable to muster the minimum number of players to participate in a given week, any tosser present may step in and represent that team for a game as needed.  

• A player can play for any team as a guest tosser, however, a player can not toss against their home team in an official match.