At the end of the day, what counts is consistency and your ability to win matches. I was in a tournament and during the final, I bang every ball 100% since that was the only way we could win. We couldn't out-dink our opponents and they didn't handle fastballs at the back court. The rating doesn't matter if you can't adopt and find a way to win.
I agree with you. We don't all have to play the same way and that rating system is just a rough starting point. A player could be 3.5 level at one skill, but 4.5 at another. Winning matches is what matters. I say bang away if you're good at it!
Great content as usual. Well done. How about more information and demonstration of the twisties. Your video you showed it solo. Can you show that with a partner or show more in game footage and explain it? I think that was critical and I don't completely grasp it. Keep em' coming!
"I'M SO MUCH COOLER ONLINE" and also according to the USA Pickleball Skill Ratings definitions. This is because they seem to be outdated, i.e. a 4.0 just 5 years ago would be considered a 3.5 by today's REALISTIC rec player standards. Am I right? I have a tennis background, so after reading the definitions when I first started playing, I thought I was a 4.0 right away... but not so much after playing better players. lol
An interesting discussion. As a 5 month newbie to the sport I thought I was a 3.5 player, but now I realize I'm probably a 3.0. I don't worry about ratings right now, I just want to improve. Need more practice and need to wait for a "good player" stack down at the rec court even if it means waiting a little bit longer to play.
At 3.0 and below, I think the rating sheets can be applied in a "practice setting" because at that level, can you keep the ball moving and keep it inbounds. At the 4.0 level, it must be graded against 4.0 players. Now at some point, a higher level can accommodate the banger, or the special spinner, or other wild and wonderful skill set that lets you beat lower level players without learning the advanced game. And maybe a rare instance, someone with an especially hard drive can go into the 5.0 world and conquer. However, if that is all he has, a 3.5 with a counter ability can beat him. Almost every special ability one might have, there is a way to train yourself to defend against it. Now when it comes to partner play, two folks on the same performance wave length can really do good together. I.e. you can beat a banger, in part, by not giving him a shot to bang. Spin, you have to learn to read it well and to play it. Fast accurate service, That's tough to beat. Natural quickness is its defense. I think the rating system is good. There are outlier folks who don't match the sheets but will excel. In my community, self rating is KING. And there are those who can perform in the lab environment and claim the rating but can't perform on the court against aggressive competitors.
If you play 2-3 tournaments at 3.5 skill and win the bracket each time move up to 4.0 and see if you can repeat the performance. If not in top 3, then one is probably a 3.5 skill If you can win or place second repeatedly in your bracket it probably makes sense to move up a skill level bracket to keep challenging yourself and getting better.
This makes sense to me. I just started playing this winter in Mexico and there are no ratings at the courts. Just a novice court and the better court. Now that I’m back in the US I will just start at 3.0 and see how I do. Then move up if I start to win consistently in that grouping.
When I am practicing I am about a 3, but once I am in a game I am a -2. I stink in a real game. I am very new. I will keep trying, but I am not sure I will ever be able to play decently in a real game. I do have fun practicing and doing drills so I might just have to be happy with that.
Luv it! I have no rating and I hate dinking. My strength is spin and placement with power. Always thought I had to dink better until I saw this, thanks!
The game is evolving. You can play the classic game and look pretty or you can play to win the point. Strategy is important. In a tournament, I play to win. Bang or dink, drop or lob. Whatever gets the job done!
We have a PPA tournament coming next month here in Charlotte, but I'm thinking of skipping the playing part this year, because you're right..... I know 4.5+ players will be playing 4.0 and hence I would get crushed! (I only play singles competitively)
I refuse to be a sandbagger, just because "everyone does it." Even here on UA-cam, pro pickleballers recommend rec players to enter .5 down when playing in a PPA event. smh
In doubles it seems hard to rate oneself if you or you're partner is the weak link. Example is I've played really well in rec times when I was on the same side with a true 3.5 player or 4.0 and opposing side being the same,,but I did not do as well when with other players with lesser skill level. Seems like I'm only a possible 3.5 to 4.0 level only when I get to play with them,,and those better than 3.5,4.0 or better, they stop showing up for rec play and start getting clicky,,,so you get stuck chasing down fast games at courts,,or go into singles,,cause finding a double partner is not always that simple. So single tournaments is what I might need to chase if I want faster play times. Just seems rec play is temporary, because the better they get, the more they want to not to be slowed down, or when they do show up they only want to play with their partner. At some point I guess alot will go through with this process, but will realize till they get good also. So to get my fix in I'll go chase some single matches this year.
You mentioned wind a couple of times in this video and you also mentioned South Florida. I was eyeing a tournament in Punta Gorda in November. But do you think there's a high chance the playing conditions wouldn't be great?
Ratings apparently don’t matter much, as for one tournament a player signs up as a 3.5, the next he/she signs up as a 4.0 based on the field, the next he/she signs up as a 3.0. Heck, within tournaments players will sign up as 3.0 at singles, 4.0 at mixed and 3.5 as gender doubles. Once you get a rating, it needs to be managed by the system and bump up as needed, just like tennis does. If you are a 3.5 player, but want to play with a 4.0, you have to sign up as a 4.0 team, or maybe sign up with a 4.5 and play 8.0 combo, if they start that kind of thing. People just abuse the rating system and sign up wherever they think they can win.
I'm gonna help out all the pickleball players right now: the only rating that means anything is if you gain or lose rating each time you play. That is how chess works that is how table tennis works. These broad categories are not useful
They should make a handicap rating system that you can apply. Like based off stats, you film a round count the number of critical elements; successful drops, serve depths, return depths, speed ups, resets, and then number of errors/misses at each of those positions. And then maybe like tallying the number of shots using each spin type? And then, having to entering a round with all those stats in order to update your handicap/rating. And you're rating consists of the average of your top 3 rounds out of your last 10. It'd be way too tedious tho...
PB is getting like golf, everyone drives 300+ until you play them and find them saying they are just having a bad day. I play with a couple of groups mostly 60 plus, no one has a rating and we change up partners each game. Most games are competitive and I usually just make a mental note to myself whether I was making my shots or not and if I was on the winning team more than not. Tournaments are not important to most of us and we are just playing for fun. To paraphrase Toby Kieth, we’re just trying to not let the old man in.
Nationals ratings are 3.0= 4.5 and everything above that is 5.0 (kidding but kind of not) You will have trouble figuring out what bracket any final is because they all look like 4.5+
I have friends who played in sanctioned tournaments. They got a tournament rating back after the tournament based upon their playing history and how they did in the tournament.
@@ThePickleballPirates After the tournament was over they analyzed all the players and updated their tournament rating. This keeps a 4.0+ from playing as a 3.5. This guy actually teetered from barely above a 4.0 to slightly below a 4.0. This was a couple years ago when I discussed this with him. I don't know if they still do it.
Joey, you're a trip, young brother. I love your stuff. You didn't speak to the issue of relative age and ratings. I would have liked to hear your perspective on that beyond the mention of mobility. Is a 3.5 70-year-old the same as a 3.5 30-year-old. In a test environment, yes. But athleticism on the court matters, which includes brain visual processing and reflex speed and useful field of vision, which can be trained up in older players but still very much advantaged in younger players. What are your thoughts on that?
I've heard from other advanced people that to adjust for vast differences in age (let's just say 30 yr gap), there should be about a point difference in differential (a 4.0 60 yr old vs a 3.0 30 yr old). At some point, there is a very sizable gap between the two different age brackets when it comes to speed, reaction time, flexibility, and overall health.
Ironically the actual official skills assessment sheets are both Too Detailed and Too Vague. They say "must meet ALL the previous levels standards AND these standards as well", then they proceed to list a ton of vague and subjective descriptions instead of assigning percentages or ranges for specific situations. I might be dropping my 3rds like a boss until some 5.0 who's a lanky 6'7" makes those look like I'm a 3.0. And phrases like "able to sustain a medium length dink rally" is pretty meaningless in the vacuum of "what is medium length? How aggressive are the dinks from the other team?" along with a dozen more questions. ... I have played against a lot of 4.0+ DUPRs aka "4.0 class" players who, subjectively (as all the official written standards are) had many gaps in their 4.0 official skillset, and many skills where they (again, subjectively) are closer to 5.0.
The rating based on a list of skills is a very rough starting point at best. Coming from other racket sports I've seen players who had absolutely beautiful shots, they looked so smooth and so well coached. They start playing a game and you'd absolutely destroy them because they just couldn't put it together and play the right shots at the right times in a match scenario. I've said before and I'll say again though, the DUPR ratings do seem to be too volatile. You see people who are a 3.8 rating one week, have a single poor tournament and drop down to 3.3 or something, which is a crazy big drop for an established player. It's easy to see how people end up in tournaments they are completely the wrong level for. Which leads me to the other point, in any decent size tournament there are always likely to be some players playing lower than they really should. So any final you watch on youtube, say a 4.0-4.5 final, if you search the DUPR of those players a few months later they are often all around 5.0 or higher.
i have been to Orlando and I played with the Pirates, they are the real deal. people that say they are 3.5 at best are insane, they wouldnt score 5 points against them in rec play
I am new to the sport playing about 5 months. If I go off the ratings I am a 4.0-4.5 player. I consider myself a 3.0 player because I lack a lot of experience and there are many holes in my game. I recently watched a youtube video with 4.0 players in the gold medal round. I don't think they would beat 3.5 players out here in southern AL. You can be a higher end player where you play but if you go to another area, you find out you are not as good as you thought.
This is exactly what this video is about. When you (3.0 player) see 4.0 on video you think you are better. That's very unlikely. Video is deceptive. Different areas have slightly different levels but not by much (maybe within 0.2 points). it's really hard job to judge the level based on video. In 5 months you just cannot acquire that skill.
If people would quit looking at these very basic self assessment sheets on Google and actually pull up the assessment as if you were being graded upon what you can actually do consistently I believe a lot of "4.0" players are in reality a 3.0 .
Joey is deliberately making this too complicated. The basic paper rating ensures that players have a broad range of basic skills, and that you won't show up at a rec game rated 4.0+ and go "what's a dink?" When you get a random partner in the 4.0 rec game, and your new partner goes "what do you like to do on the third shot?" you won't go "huh? what's a third shot?" If you are playing tournaments, you'll get a DUPR rating and then you'll have that, as well. But it will just be a starting point. No single rating captures everything, in any walk of life.
Yes, good attempt to collect some money on vanity. It is useless though as it is not used at tournaments, the only rational justification for rating existence.
If you can move your opponents around where you want and have accurate shots, you can win. I've beat people I should not have because they were predictable. Mix it up. You don't have to dink to win.
Regional variances also, just like attractive people. What's a 9 in my neck of the woods might be a 7 in South Beach. Then there is the divided body situation. 3.5 from the hips up, but 3.0 and sliding down as that session goes on due to an arthritic knee. Love playing with 20-something young-ins. IMHO subject ratings, next thing to smoke and mirrors. Just go have fun.
Right on, Joey! I bet 95% of core players are self-rated. We all know how that goes. Most of us believe we are at least above average. It would be great for one of the organizations to put aside ratings for awhile and develop tools and guides that would help clubs and organizations efficiently organize and run non-tournament, rec play, as well as non-profit Pickleball events.
I ( in my humble opinion) how did you do in a good size tournament….say 8-10 teams…..did you medal? And play four or five tournaments at that level…if you medal in one or two if them you belong…..if you didn’t you probably not that level. Just sayin
Dupr is a joke. Nobody watches the games so if you’re playing doubles you should get the same rating. But nope. I carried my partner to gold in our last tournament which was our first tournament scoring on 90 plus % of our points and somehow they gave him a much higher rating than me. Had people coming up to me after saying they couldn’t believe how I carried him.
If it is your and your partner first tournament, you self-rated equally, and you've never played separately, then it is likely a mistake. You can report it to DUPR. Otherwise history matters.
Easily. You only cannot volley from kitchen. At the moment you referred to there was no volley shot. Also we do not see any one to step into the kitchen either. So it might be just the wrong time mark you provided.
At the end of the day, what counts is consistency and your ability to win matches. I was in a tournament and during the final, I bang every ball 100% since that was the only way we could win. We couldn't out-dink our opponents and they didn't handle fastballs at the back court. The rating doesn't matter if you can't adopt and find a way to win.
I agree with you. We don't all have to play the same way and that rating system is just a rough starting point. A player could be 3.5 level at one skill, but 4.5 at another. Winning matches is what matters. I say bang away if you're good at it!
I'm glad you said that bit about the 3.5. / 4.0 / 4.5 finals looking the same. That's been my experience too.
Great content as usual. Well done. How about more information and demonstration of the twisties. Your video you showed it solo. Can you show that with a partner or show more in game footage and explain it? I think that was critical and I don't completely grasp it. Keep em' coming!
"I'M SO MUCH COOLER ONLINE" and also according to the USA Pickleball Skill Ratings definitions. This is because they seem to be outdated, i.e. a 4.0 just 5 years ago would be considered a 3.5 by today's REALISTIC rec player standards. Am I right? I have a tennis background, so after reading the definitions when I first started playing, I thought I was a 4.0 right away... but not so much after playing better players. lol
An interesting discussion. As a 5 month newbie to the sport I thought I was a 3.5 player, but now I realize I'm probably a 3.0. I don't worry about ratings right now, I just want to improve. Need more practice and need to wait for a "good player" stack down at the rec court even if it means waiting a little bit longer to play.
At 3.0 and below, I think the rating sheets can be applied in a "practice setting" because at that level, can you keep the ball moving and keep it inbounds. At the 4.0 level, it must be graded against 4.0 players. Now at some point, a higher level can accommodate the banger, or the special spinner, or other wild and wonderful skill set that lets you beat lower level players without learning the advanced game. And maybe a rare instance, someone with an especially hard drive can go into the 5.0 world and conquer. However, if that is all he has, a 3.5 with a counter ability can beat him. Almost every special ability one might have, there is a way to train yourself to defend against it. Now when it comes to partner play, two folks on the same performance wave length can really do good together. I.e. you can beat a banger, in part, by not giving him a shot to bang. Spin, you have to learn to read it well and to play it. Fast accurate service, That's tough to beat. Natural quickness is its defense. I think the rating system is good. There are outlier folks who don't match the sheets but will excel. In my community, self rating is KING. And there are those who can perform in the lab environment and claim the rating but can't perform on the court against aggressive competitors.
If you play 2-3 tournaments at 3.5 skill and win the bracket each time move up to 4.0 and see if you can repeat the performance. If not in top 3, then one is probably a 3.5 skill If you can win or place second repeatedly in your bracket it probably makes sense to move up a skill level bracket to keep challenging yourself and getting better.
This makes sense to me. I just started playing this winter in Mexico and there are no ratings at the courts. Just a novice court and the better court. Now that I’m back in the US I will just start at 3.0 and see how I do. Then move up if I start to win consistently in that grouping.
I love your attitude. Way to go.
This had me laughing so hard thank you 😂
When I am practicing I am about a 3, but once I am in a game I am a -2. I stink in a real game. I am very new. I will keep trying, but I am not sure I will ever be able to play decently in a real game. I do have fun practicing and doing drills so I might just have to be happy with that.
Luv it! I have no rating and I hate dinking. My strength is spin and placement with power. Always thought I had to dink better until I saw this, thanks!
The game is evolving. You can play the classic game and look pretty or you can play to win the point. Strategy is important. In a tournament, I play to win. Bang or dink, drop or lob. Whatever gets the job done!
Very well put!
We have a PPA tournament coming next month here in Charlotte, but I'm thinking of skipping the playing part this year, because you're right..... I know 4.5+ players will be playing 4.0 and hence I would get crushed! (I only play singles competitively)
I refuse to be a sandbagger, just because "everyone does it." Even here on UA-cam, pro pickleballers recommend rec players to enter .5 down when playing in a PPA event. smh
Get to 4.5 level. At 4.5 no sandbagging
@@ThePickleballPirates I ALREADY AM..... if I only go by the definitions of USA Pickleball Player Ratings. lol
Who cares about the stupid medal. Play up and get better.
In doubles it seems hard to rate oneself if you or you're partner is the weak link. Example is I've played really well in rec times when I was on the same side with a true 3.5 player or 4.0 and opposing side being the same,,but I did not do as well when with other players with lesser skill level. Seems like I'm only a possible 3.5 to 4.0 level only when I get to play with them,,and those better than 3.5,4.0 or better, they stop showing up for rec play and start getting clicky,,,so you get stuck chasing down fast games at courts,,or go into singles,,cause finding a double partner is not always that simple. So single tournaments is what I might need to chase if I want faster play times. Just seems rec play is temporary, because the better they get, the more they want to not to be slowed down, or when they do show up they only want to play with their partner. At some point I guess alot will go through with this process, but will realize till they get good also. So to get my fix in I'll go chase some single matches this year.
You mentioned wind a couple of times in this video and you also mentioned South Florida. I was eyeing a tournament in Punta Gorda in November. But do you think there's a high chance the playing conditions wouldn't be great?
Punta Gorda almost always have swirly/gusty winds.
Ratings apparently don’t matter much, as for one tournament a player signs up as a 3.5, the next he/she signs up as a 4.0 based on the field, the next he/she signs up as a 3.0. Heck, within tournaments players will sign up as 3.0 at singles, 4.0 at mixed and 3.5 as gender doubles.
Once you get a rating, it needs to be managed by the system and bump up as needed, just like tennis does. If you are a 3.5 player, but want to play with a 4.0, you have to sign up as a 4.0 team, or maybe sign up with a 4.5 and play 8.0 combo, if they start that kind of thing. People just abuse the rating system and sign up wherever they think they can win.
In tournaments you will have college all conference tennis players playing 2.5.
The sandbagging is insane.
I'm gonna help out all the pickleball players right now: the only rating that means anything is if you gain or lose rating each time you play. That is how chess works that is how table tennis works. These broad categories are not useful
They should make a handicap rating system that you can apply. Like based off stats, you film a round count the number of critical elements; successful drops, serve depths, return depths, speed ups, resets, and then number of errors/misses at each of those positions. And then maybe like tallying the number of shots using each spin type?
And then, having to entering a round with all those stats in order to update your handicap/rating. And you're rating consists of the average of your top 3 rounds out of your last 10.
It'd be way too tedious tho...
Congrats on your pro win!
PB is getting like golf, everyone drives 300+ until you play them and find them saying they are just having a bad day. I play with a couple of groups mostly 60 plus, no one has a rating and we change up partners each game. Most games are competitive and I usually just make a mental note to myself whether I was making my shots or not and if I was on the winning team more than not. Tournaments are not important to most of us and we are just playing for fun. To paraphrase Toby Kieth, we’re just trying to not let the old man in.
The setting skills is always a hard setting to a standards varables I feel if you have a good partner it make you good with pratice.
Good advise. Try to keep your sound level consistent with your speaking, video transitions and music!
Thanks, will do!
Nationals ratings are 3.0= 4.5 and everything above that is 5.0 (kidding but kind of not) You will have trouble figuring out what bracket any final is because they all look like 4.5+
That's only before they start playing each other 3.5 vs 4.0, 4.0 vs 4.5. Then the difference becomes obvious
I have friends who played in sanctioned tournaments. They got a tournament rating back after the tournament based upon their playing history and how they did in the tournament.
what does it mean "They got a tournament rating back"?
@@ThePickleballPirates After the tournament was over they analyzed all the players and updated their tournament rating. This keeps a 4.0+ from playing as a 3.5. This guy actually teetered from barely above a 4.0 to slightly below a 4.0. This was a couple years ago when I discussed this with him. I don't know if they still do it.
We think that ratings without tournaments do not have much sense
@@ThePickleballPirates ratings help you get in groups that you won't annoy everyone.
for that you can have a completely unattached internal rating. Or use DUPR for clubs
What’s a tor na mint?
Joey, you're a trip, young brother. I love your stuff. You didn't speak to the issue of relative age and ratings. I would have liked to hear your perspective on that beyond the mention of mobility. Is a 3.5 70-year-old the same as a 3.5 30-year-old. In a test environment, yes. But athleticism on the court matters, which includes brain visual processing and reflex speed and useful field of vision, which can be trained up in older players but still very much advantaged in younger players. What are your thoughts on that?
Calculated rating is just rating. It reflects your chances to win against others. Age does not participate.
I've heard from other advanced people that to adjust for vast differences in age (let's just say 30 yr gap), there should be about a point difference in differential (a 4.0 60 yr old vs a 3.0 30 yr old).
At some point, there is a very sizable gap between the two different age brackets when it comes to speed, reaction time, flexibility, and overall health.
Ironically the actual official skills assessment sheets are both Too Detailed and Too Vague.
They say "must meet ALL the previous levels standards AND these standards as well", then they proceed to list a ton of vague and subjective descriptions instead of assigning percentages or ranges for specific situations.
I might be dropping my 3rds like a boss until some 5.0 who's a lanky 6'7" makes those look like I'm a 3.0. And phrases like "able to sustain a medium length dink rally" is pretty meaningless in the vacuum of "what is medium length? How aggressive are the dinks from the other team?" along with a dozen more questions.
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I have played against a lot of 4.0+ DUPRs aka "4.0 class" players who, subjectively (as all the official written standards are) had many gaps in their 4.0 official skillset, and many skills where they (again, subjectively) are closer to 5.0.
I am playing US Open 3.0 3.5 singles. My Dupr is 3.4 There is a guy with a WPA 3.0 rating but his dupt is 4.41 in Singles
The rating based on a list of skills is a very rough starting point at best. Coming from other racket sports I've seen players who had absolutely beautiful shots, they looked so smooth and so well coached. They start playing a game and you'd absolutely destroy them because they just couldn't put it together and play the right shots at the right times in a match scenario.
I've said before and I'll say again though, the DUPR ratings do seem to be too volatile. You see people who are a 3.8 rating one week, have a single poor tournament and drop down to 3.3 or something, which is a crazy big drop for an established player. It's easy to see how people end up in tournaments they are completely the wrong level for. Which leads me to the other point, in any decent size tournament there are always likely to be some players playing lower than they really should. So any final you watch on youtube, say a 4.0-4.5 final, if you search the DUPR of those players a few months later they are often all around 5.0 or higher.
i have been to Orlando and I played with the Pirates, they are the real deal. people that say they are 3.5 at best are insane, they wouldnt score 5 points against them in rec play
Lol. No you wouldn't score many points.
@@bart1476 go to clearone buddy, put up or shutup
Joey is 3.5 at best
Why would you say that? It's obviously not true...
@@RobertBucchianeri--Author Just a joke based on the video
@@nilkamals Okay, Sorry,,,,
I am new to the sport playing about 5 months. If I go off the ratings I am a 4.0-4.5 player. I consider myself a 3.0 player because I lack a lot of experience and there are many holes in my game. I recently watched a youtube video with 4.0 players in the gold medal round. I don't think they would beat 3.5 players out here in southern AL. You can be a higher end player where you play but if you go to another area, you find out you are not as good as you thought.
This is exactly what this video is about. When you (3.0 player) see 4.0 on video you think you are better. That's very unlikely. Video is deceptive. Different areas have slightly different levels but not by much (maybe within 0.2 points).
it's really hard job to judge the level based on video. In 5 months you just cannot acquire that skill.
If people would quit looking at these very basic self assessment sheets on Google and actually pull up the assessment as if you were being graded upon what you can actually do consistently I believe a lot of "4.0" players are in reality a 3.0 .
Wish I could make the "clap" emoji. It would be "clap, clap, clap!"
👏👏👏
Joey is deliberately making this too complicated. The basic paper rating ensures that players have a broad range of basic skills, and that you won't show up at a rec game rated 4.0+ and go "what's a dink?" When you get a random partner in the 4.0 rec game, and your new partner goes "what do you like to do on the third shot?" you won't go "huh? what's a third shot?" If you are playing tournaments, you'll get a DUPR rating and then you'll have that, as well. But it will just be a starting point. No single rating captures everything, in any walk of life.
Interesting. A good video...
Thanks!
The only objective rating is the IPTPA rating. Purely skill based and objective.
Yes, good attempt to collect some money on vanity. It is useless though as it is not used at tournaments, the only rational justification for rating existence.
@@ThePickleballPirates There are other applications. Rec. leagues and organized round robins.
If you can move your opponents around where you want and have accurate shots, you can win. I've beat people I should not have because they were predictable. Mix it up. You don't have to dink to win.
We have a couple hundred players come thru our town each summer. Only seen one legit 5.0 player & he only came once. 🤔
That's normal unless your "town" is New York :)
Not that many 5.0s wander around
I saw 4 5.0 players at Bobby Riggs today.
Regional variances also, just like attractive people. What's a 9 in my neck of the woods might be a 7 in South Beach. Then there is the divided body situation. 3.5 from the hips up, but 3.0 and sliding down as that session goes on due to an arthritic knee. Love playing with 20-something young-ins. IMHO subject ratings, next thing to smoke and mirrors. Just go have fun.
Right on, Joey! I bet 95% of core players are self-rated. We all know how that goes. Most of us believe we are at least above average.
It would be great for one of the organizations to put aside ratings for awhile and develop tools and guides that would help clubs and organizations efficiently organize and run non-tournament, rec play, as well as non-profit Pickleball events.
Ratings do not have much sense beyond tournaments participation
I ( in my humble opinion) how did you do in a good size tournament….say 8-10 teams…..did you medal? And play four or five tournaments at that level…if you medal in one or two if them you belong…..if you didn’t you probably not that level. Just sayin
Dupr is a joke. Nobody watches the games so if you’re playing doubles you should get the same rating. But nope. I carried my partner to gold in our last tournament which was our first tournament scoring on 90 plus % of our points and somehow they gave him a much higher rating than me. Had people coming up to me after saying they couldn’t believe how I carried him.
If it is your and your partner first tournament, you self-rated equally, and you've never played separately, then it is likely a mistake. You can report it to DUPR.
Otherwise history matters.
@ there is no history. It was the first tournament either of us ever entered.
@lightsout6552 then you probably write to DUPR pointing it out.
2:57 foot fault!
absolutely not
@@ThePickleballPirates wait really? 😂 I might not actually understand..
Easily. You only cannot volley from kitchen. At the moment you referred to there was no volley shot. Also we do not see any one to step into the kitchen either. So it might be just the wrong time mark you provided.
@@ThePickleballPirates oh woop lol you right. not sure what my brain was lookin at before
Too much talk and not enough info.
These ratings are a just crap....
No, they are just ratings