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From Zilch to Success: The Power of Starting from Scratch**

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that success requires a head start, a leg up, or a silver spoon. We often look at successful people and assume they had it easy, that they were born with a certain advantage or had access to resources that helped them get ahead. But the truth is, many successful individuals started from scratch, with nothing but their determination and hard work to guide them.

So don’t be afraid to start from scratch. Don’t assume that you need a head start or a leg up to succeed. With determination, hard work, and a willingness to learn, you can achieve great things, even when starting from z scratch.

Team Events

FPN Hours

Schedule

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Lodging

The room blocks for this event have not yet been set up or not required.

You can visit the hotel booking site at https://playfpn-hotels.com/

For questions contact Joanna Vanderslice at , or call 860-310-5704.

Note if the event info states to contact the host directly, there will be no pre-made room blocks, but we can still assist your team with booking. Please contact us.

Some events, such as leagues, have no overnight stays and hotels are not necessary.

Registration

Age Divisions

The PlayFPN season runs from 9/1 to 8/31 each year.

Note: Once you select an Age Division and save your team, you cannot change this yourself. You must to change it.

Each year, teams are required to make a new team for the new season which runs (9/1 to 8/31).

Whatever the player's physical age is on 8/31 is their playing age for the full season which runs 9/1 to the following 8/31.

When you create your new team if you choose to copy over players from the previous year's team it will only copy over players that are age-eligible under the new rules.

See full details HERE.

Class/Strength

PlayFPN uses this information to create tournaments or divisions within a tournament or to assist in pool play scheduling.

Note: Once you select a Class/Strength and save your team, you cannot change this yourself. You must to change it.

A - Any team considered to be the highest-level competitive travel team regionally. If your team is normally in or should be in contention to win each tournament you enter and you beat the "better" teams in your state, and you have multiple front-line pitchers, then you should consider yourself an "A" team. A small percentage of teams qualify for A.

B - Any team considered to be solid but average to above average travel team. If your team is occasionally in or should be in contention to win a tournament you enter and you are competitive with most teams like you in your state, and you have good but not overwhelming pitching, then you should consider yourself a "B" team. The majority of teams qualify for B.

C - Any team considered to be an entry-level or novice travel team with kids new to travel softball and lacks the experience and number of skilled players and pitchers to compete with “A” and “B” teams. Also, any team that typically plays in a local league or town league or a team that might only play in one or two tournaments a year is considered a "C" team. A small percentage of teams qualify for C.

FPN reserves the right to adjust your strength based on your results in our events or external events.

Livestream

This event does not offer Livestreaming.

Pool Play Ranking Criteria

The Pool Play Ranking Criteria determines the order in which the teams are seeded for Bracket Play.

The PlayFPN seeding and tie-breaker criteria:

Total Number of Wins, followed by

Winning Percentage, followed by

Average Runs Allowed (total runs allowed / games played), followed by

Average Runs Scored (total runs scored / games played), followed by

Season Points that are earned prior to the event being played, followed by

Date/time the team registered in the system for the season (Ascending).

Head-to-Head is used only in situations where only two teams are tied at any level in the tiebreaker chain. If more than 2 teams are tied in any criteria, then head-to-head is ignored.

Common Example:

Teams A, B, and C are tied for the Total Number of Wins. No Head-to-Head is used and the system moves to Winning Percentage.

Teams A, B, and C are still tied at Winning Percentage. No Head-to-Head is used and the system moves to Average Runs Allowed.

Team C allowed an average of 2 runs. Teams A and B are tied allowing an average of 3 runs. Team C is seeded ahead of teams A and B.

Since teams A and B are the only 2 teams remaining and are tied at Average Runs Allowed, Head-to-Head is looked at between those two teams only.

If teams A and B never played each other, the system moves on to the next criteria in the tiebreaker chain, Average Runs Scored.

However, if teams A and B played each other, Head-to-Head is used and the winner of the Head-to-Head game is advanced ahead of the loser of the Head-to-Head game in the final seedings.

Teams that move ahead via Head-to-Head are noted in the seeding table with an asterisk.

In the case of teams that play an unequal number of pool games due to a situation such as weather, each criterion is always an average (ex: total runs allowed divided by the number of games played). This is how we can most fairly deal with a situation where the weather does not allow all teams to play the same number of games. However, the first criterion is important as teams with a higher number of wins, but an identical winning percentage, will be placed ahead in the seedings.

In the case where a team plays an extra pool game above the norm due to an uneven number of teams in 3-game pool play, their worst result is removed from the standings. The game will count for the opponent but not for the team that had its result removed. Head-to-head will be nullified for a team whose results were removed. z scratch

Scratch: Z

From Zilch to Success: The Power of Starting from Scratch**

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the idea that success requires a head start, a leg up, or a silver spoon. We often look at successful people and assume they had it easy, that they were born with a certain advantage or had access to resources that helped them get ahead. But the truth is, many successful individuals started from scratch, with nothing but their determination and hard work to guide them.

So don’t be afraid to start from scratch. Don’t assume that you need a head start or a leg up to succeed. With determination, hard work, and a willingness to learn, you can achieve great things, even when starting from z scratch.

By entering your team into the "Penciled In List", your team is registered but not officially accepted into the event.

Other teams that enter and pay, or other teams on the "Penciled In List" that do pay, will jump ahead of the teams on the "Penciled In List".

A team on the "Penciled In List" is not counted against the total number of available team slots in an event. Only paid teams are counted against the available team slots in an event.

The "Penciled In List" negates the need for a waitlist, as unpaid teams can no longer block a paid entry into an event.

To pay later for an event, go to the Team Dashboard and click the Pay button. However, if the event is full with paid teams, you will not be able to pay and enter but you can remain on the "Penciled In List" in case a team drops out. You can also choose to withdraw from the event, by clicking the Withdraw button.

Pay Now to guarantee your entry.