Procedure to Determine

Player Of The Year (POTY) Award

(Effective January 1, 2007)

INTENT:

The award is designed to promote the participation of the players in Unit143-sponsored events and to recognize an individual's achievement in those events.  It was not designed to identify the best player in the unit.

DEFINITIONS:

1. Qualifying Period: January 1 through December 31 of one calendar year.
2. Qualified Players: All Unit 143 members must be in good standing on the dates on which points are won, as well as December 31 of the qualifying year.
3. Qualifying events: All ACBL Unit143-sponsored unrestricted (by masterpoints) events.  This includes all Sectional games, all games held at the St. Louis Regional, and all Unit games.  Only the first bracket of knockouts qualify. This also includes the St. Louis "Bragging Rights" Knockouts sectional unlimited bracket.
4. Club games are excluded.
5. Events restricted by age or gender are excluded.
6. For clarification only, the Unit Board will publish a list of the qualifying events prior to the start of the qualifying period. Changes to qualifying events may be published prior to the start of a tournament in rare circumstances.
7. Player Of The Year Points: Masterpoints awarded by the ACBL for those three (3) pairs or teams finishing first, second, or third in the overalls in qualified events designed to rank the performance of Unit 143 members.
8. Player Of The Year Point System: ACBL masterpoints won in POTY qualified events will be the point system used.  This automatically compensates for the number of players, the importance of the event, and the number of sessions played.
9. In Team events, all team members will receive the full masterpoint award if they played the minimum number of matches required by the ACBL to win an overall award.
10. In case of a tie in any qualifying event, ACBL Masterpoint awards will be used.

Approved by the Board of Directors,

April 12, 2006