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Ratings and Recognition Committee

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The Ratings and Recognition Committee is a NASPA committee. Its mandate is to ensure that the association has the best possible rating system and to recognize our player achievements. To contact the committee, please send an email message to ratings@scrabbleplayers.org.

Members

The following members currently belong to the committee:

[photo of John Chew]
ex officio
2009-01-01~
[photo of Judy Cole]
ex officio
2019-07-22~
[photo of Keith Smith (EX)]
inactive
2016-08-16~
[photo of Seth Lipkin (EX)]
recognition cochair
2009-03-17~
[photo of Jesse Day (GM)]
2012-06-04~
[photo of David Dlugosz]
2012-07-26~
[photo of Kevin Leeds (EX)]
2009-03-17~
[photo of Noah Walton (SM)]
2012-06-06~
[photo of Michael Willis]
2016-09-06~

The following members have served past terms on the committee:

[photo of Chris Cree (SM)] Chris Cree (SM)
chair
2009-01-01~2009-08-21
[photo of Chris Cree (SM)] Chris Cree (SM)
2009-08-21~2011-01-02
[photo of Chris Cree (SM)] Chris Cree (SM)
acting chair
2011-01-02~2020-07-30
[photo of Jim Hughes] Jim Hughes
managing director
2009-03-17~2009-08-21
[photo of Jim Hughes] Jim Hughes
chair
2009-08-21~2011-01-02
[photo of Jim Hughes] Jim Hughes
inactive
2011-01-02~2012-06-05
[photo of Joey Mallick (SM)] Joey Mallick (SM)
2009-03-17~2010-04-16
[photo of Lynda Finn] Lynda Finn
2009-03-17~2012-05-12
[photo of Keith Smith (EX)] Keith Smith (EX)
recognition cochair
2009-03-17~2016-08-16
[photo of Shan Abbasi (EX)] Shan Abbasi (EX)
records admin
2010-11-19~2021-09-29
[photo of Dallas Johnson] Dallas Johnson
ex officio
2013-01-01~2015-08-15
[photo of Rich Baker] Rich Baker
ex officio
2016-11-29~2021-06-30


Agenda

The committee has the following items on its agenda:

  • Review the rating system and suggest future improvements
  • Set the categories and criteria for official NASPA records and maintain the list of records.
  • Maintain a list of annual leaders in various recognized categories, and to periodically review those categories.
  • Assess the impact of raising the Local Club Tournament multiplier from 1/3 to 1/2
  • Liaise with the WESPA Ratings Committee
  • Consider assigning new entrants into the NASPA NWL rating system with established NASPA Collins ratings their current Collins rating as an initial TWL rating, for the sake of symmetry and accuracy.

History

We have archived information about our predecessor, the NSA Ratings Committee, whose official webpage is no longer available online.

Activity criteria adjusted

The Committee has revised the thresholds for being listed as an active player in the official rating lists. Until June 2007, the requirement for TWL-rated players was one tournament game played in 12 calendar months; it then changed under the NSA to 28 games played in 24 calendar months; it is now 14 games played in 12 calendar months. The same activity requirement was also instituted for CSW-rated players; who had previously had no activity requirement. This change was motivated by a shift in playing patterns to events that are smaller and more frequent, as well as the now annual championship.