Seasons

The short answer

Six to twelve weeks, and twelve is the ceiling. Shorter than six and half the field never gets three matches in.

The short answer

Carry them over. A cold start every spring throws away the one thing the ladder built, which is a roughly accurate ordering of the group, and it forces…

The short answer

Ladders need reviving far more often than they need founding. What works: 1. Find out why it stopped. It is almost always one of three things: the…

The short answer

Let them in and place them at the bottom of their band, or seed them where their rating suggests and say so publicly. Both are defensible.