LEAGUE PLAY SCHEDULING

The three Lexington bocce courts limits the number of teams that can be reasonably scheduled to play one morning each week to 7 teams. Six teams can be scheduled each week and one team is off each week. Scheduling for the season matches each team to play each other team (called a round robin). A round robin of 7 teams requires each team to play 6 matches. However, since one team is off each week, it takes 7 weeks to complete the round robin.

An example of a league play schedule for 7 teams on 3 courts is below:

Tournaments are typically scheduled as single elimination (if you lose one match you are eliminated) or double elimination (you must lose twice to be eliminated). Due to the number of leagues, limited courts, and time constraints, Lexington tournaments are single elimination tournaments except for 4-team leagues which are double elimination.

The goal of the bocce tournaments is to eliminate factors beyond the control of the teams during the first two months of league play and give everyone a chance to be a winner at the very end of the season if they have developed into being a very good team. The last place teams in league play can still be the winner. When the tournament is over, there is one winner and no last place teams since every team was eliminated by losing the same number of matches.

The bocce tournament schedule is set up similar to tournaments in other sports. For being the league play winner the first place team in league play is given every advantage possible in the tournament schedule. If a bye is available it goes to the first place team and when the first place team plays they get to play the lowest seeded team playing that day.