Let’s have some fun and get creative:

Handicap system proposal #1

A. Points for each player after this play off:

Each player (after completing all games in the Inaugural Ladder) will get points as follows
a) number of matches won minus number of matches lost, then divided by number of matches (players) = points won   (+ve  or -ve)
b) ADD position points/2  i.e. Number 1 gets 5.5 points (11/2)  this time, number 2 get 5 points and so on and so forth

This forms the total points going into future series of handicapped ladder for each player and accumulative in carrying forward.

B. Grouping for next series

Next series, Odd placed players in 1 group (no longer by age) ie #1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 in Group #Y, 2,4,6,8,10 and 12 (if Bill comes back)  into Group S.
This works like a seeding system for round robin.

C. Handicap points for each new series:

(This is where we need to plan well because of all the controversies)

Based on last earned position (in this case our inaugural) higher ranked player give 1 points for each position difference to a maximum of 5.
ie # 1 plays #3 and gives 2 points handicap or we decide it should be just 1 points.
#1 plays #5 and gives 4 or 2 points, # 1 plays #7 and gives 3 or 5 points, #1 plays #9 and gives 4 or 5 points.

We dispense  ex school team handicap except for new ex school team playing for 1st time (e.g. Bill) since from this point onwards it is by performance (net games won + position handicap). You need to fight for every game.

Then we re-calculate the point accumulated after each series re A, B and C and build the chart/ladder.

This is just an initial thought and could be very complicated. No golf/bowling handicap system has come up with this type of innovative handicaps so far and controversies still exist.

Let’s have a preliminary chat this or next week.