Re: Can we keep experimenting with scoring changes please?

On 17 Nov 2003 09:31:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr W)
wrote:

>As Leo van Hal will tell you, the proportion of service errors under
>RPS nowadays is still high...

Yes - I remember reading that. It's unfortunate really, especially as
the only real justification I can see for RPS is to reduce the number
of service errors!

> a much-missed poster on this board
>(Ravi) once put forwarded a system to punish service errors similar to
>the foul system in basketball.

Personally I think there should be a rule that anyone missing a serve
gets a good kick in the bollox from their team mates (or something
similar :-)

>How about RPS to 25; but when one team reaches 24, they are frozen in
>side-out scoring. So if they side-out, they don't score, but just have
>the chance to win on serve. The other team scores RPS until they reach
>24. When it hits 24 all, next point on serve wins.

Somthing like that sounds quite good, but everything where you have to
change systems mid-set is going to be a bitch for referees, scorers
and players!


Best Regards
John McCabe

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