Selection Guidelines

MONTMORENCY BOWLING CLUB INC.

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SELECTION COMMITTEE OBJECTIVES AND CRITERIA.

OBJECTIVES:-

1. To give every player who commits for the entire season as many games as possible.

2. Aiming to develop players for the future, as well as looking for success in the upcoming season.

3. To field competitive teams in all divisions entered and to consolidate and or gain promotion wherever possible.

4. To treat all bowlers with fairness and without discrimination in line with the selection committee guidelines.

SELECTION POLICY AND CRITERIA.

1. To be based on player’s performance as recorded.

2. The need to obtain the proper balance of teams to achieve objective number three will be regarded as important.

3. Compatibility with other team members will be a consideration.

4. Player’s willingness to attend practice and individual coaching sessions as requested by the selectors will be taken into account.

5. Everything being equal, player performance will be reviewed after three games. After three games changes may be made if required.

6. Rostering of players where necessary will be implemented through the bottom side for those players committed to a full pennant season.

Missing a game for personal reasons does not count in the rostering system.

Concerned players will be notified and given reasons for selection in a lower side.

OTHER MATTERS.

1. A member of the selection committee will be appointed as co-ordinator of each

team. This member will discuss the performance of the team with the skippers each week and report to the committee.

2. Designated co-ordinators.

Side 1 Geoff Tulloch. Side 2 Graham Crapper. Side 3 Bruno Moretti

Side 4 Graham Polanski. Sides 5 and 6 Stephen Fox.

3. Players with a grievance or other input for selectors can

discuss this with their co-ordinator and not other selectors.

Alternatively an appointment can be made to meet with

selectors on Monday nights at 7 p.m.

TO ALL MEMBERS OF MONTMORENCY BOWLING CLUB SATURDAY PENNANT.

OUTLINE OF THE PROPOSED SELECTION PROCESS FOR SEASON 2011/2012.

We seek your HELP in the selection process and this letter is to clarify any queries you may have.

Firstly a question. Can you name any sport where the selectors do not use player AVERAGES to help them in the selection process?????

At Montmorency we are using THREE guidelines.

They are KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS.

1. The good old “Thumbs up” procedure for all bowls. The criteria are attached so that you can familiarize yourselves with them.

The percentages produced from these are basically AVERAGES and are kept for the season so they are a good GUIDE.

We need your help to make sure these are ACCURATE.

2. PLAYER VOTES. These are the votes you give to your other team members at the end of play.

They are added up and a running total is kept.

Each bowler is also asked to give COMMENTS on his/her team members.

These comments can be complimentary, constructive or may be critical and they help us to get an overall picture of a bowler’s ability and what occurred during that game.

CONSTRUCTIVE critical comments can often be used so that we can refer that bowler to a coach and have the problem rectified.

3. There is a selector designated to liaise with the team skips before the next selection meeting.

This input is also vital to the selection process.

They are: - 1sts. Geoff Tulloch, 2nds.Graham Crapper, 3rds. Bruno Moretti, 4ths. Graham Polanski, 5ths. & 6ths. Stephen Fox.

If a bowler needs to talk to a selector then he should talk to the appropriate one as above.

If you take the three items in conjunction with each other; then this gives us a guide to making good selections.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE DONE ACCURATELY AND CONSTRUCTIVELY.

Saturday Pennant Selection Committee.

Graham Crapper. Bruno Moretti. Stephen Fox.

Geoff Tulloch. Graham Polanski.

METHOD OF SCORING 2011 – 2012 SATURDAY PENNANT SEASON.

. If a bowl is within criteria the Skip makes a recording on the card he has for this.

. When the Skip bowls the 3^rd. gives a “thumbs-up” if the bowl is within the criteria. The Skip then records.

. The Skip does all recording but does not add up.

BOWLS ARE WITHIN THE CRITERIA IF : -

. A draw shot finishes within a mat’s length of the jack.

. A Position bowl to be within a mat’s length or matches Skip’s other instruction.

. An on shot or drive to be within 75mm. (3 inches) of the target.

. Unintended results do not count.

. If the instruction is to use close to Jack-high or similar bowls and the result is effective; this is a counter.

JUDGEMENT OF SKIP OR THIRD AS TO WHETHER A BOWL IS WITHIN THE CRITERIA IS FINAL

AND NO DISCUSSION WILL BE ENTERED INTO.

Last modified: 20/02/12