Inclement Weather

[zm1283]

Yeah, it has rained a LOT here this spring. It seems that there is a chance of rain just about every day. Last week I lost every date that I had on the schedule. I was scheduled Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday this week, and Friday is the only one I've lost so far. Tomorrow looks good enough to get three varsity games in though.

I've learned that this is the one reason why I like basketball season. While we do have a couple of cancellations each season for winter weather, 99% of the time you're going to get your games in.

[ManInBlue]

HS season went by with little to-do over weather. One or two rain outs. Now this last round of playoffs have been eventful. Rain, rain and more rain.

Tournaments have been cancelled almost every weekend for the past month or more. Game fees lost to rainouts in tournaments is at least what you've lost, if not closer to $1000. Looks promising for this weekend though.

[ajjl22]

Last year was my worst season for rain outs. I lost 23 games last year for a total of $1057. This year I have only lost 9 games for $652, which is about normal for this area.

[bob jenkins]

Today is the last of 44 consecutive days scheduled for me. Of those 44 (assuming we play today), 8 were lost to weather, 1 lost due to a scheduling snafu.

[archangel]

Sou Ohio seems to be the same as Toledo area...26 games worked to date, 12 rainouts...I usually figure about 1/4 - 1/5 of my games rained out on avg per season- this is the worst...

[ManInBlue]

Originally Posted by ManInBlue

Looks promising for this weekend though.

Spoke too soon. They got Friday night in. Saturday was delayed, but we squeezed in 4 games in the PM. Sunday the tourney got cancelled before any games could be played.

We need the weather to change patterns - it's nice all week then rains Fri/Sat/Sun - I could live with rain all week and nice Fri/Sat/Sun

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Yeah, it has rained a LOT here this spring. It seems that there is a chance of rain just about every day. Last week I lost every date that I had on the schedule. I was scheduled Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday this week, and Friday is the only one I've lost so far. Tomorrow looks good enough to get three varsity games in though.

I've learned that this is the one reason why I like basketball season. While we do have a couple of cancellations each season for winter weather, 99% of the time you're going to get your games in.

I spoke too soon as well. Got to the field Saturday morning for three games...no one around. No phone call from anyone, nothing.

In the process of getting a game fee plus mileage.

[Emperor Ump]

Had a ton of rain outs last week, something like 17 rained out games for the season so far.

Our commissioner sent out an email that one of the private school districts may be scrapping their district tournament due to the rain.

I read elsewhere last week that a school district somewhere was just going to kill their regular season where it was and those standings would be their standings for the district. The issue comes because there were plans on making a minimum number of games played which would eliminate the #1 team which was undefeated but got the least amounts of games in. That would suck.