BA Postal League, January 2008

This month's Portsmouth round in the BA Postal League was shot this morning.

An excellent turnout (albeit with some turning out later than others) ensured an excellent team score of 2716 (adjusted to 2678), which sets a real challenge for this month's opponents Nethermoss.

The team score comprised:

• Graham Brown 554
• Jon Stafford 552
• Will Martin 540
• Hamish Matheson 539
• Rod Brown 531

Also shooting on the day were Russell French (527), Richard Cobden (516), Liz Bowyer, Pip Tucknott, Emily Cobden, Rebecca Tucknott, Roger Withey, Josh Cobden and Isaac Rowlatt-Harrod. Thanks to everyone for attending.

Nethermoss's score will be posted when it has been received.

Update

The Nethermoss score was received on 29th January. This proved to be 2760, which left me regreting my published optimism from earlier in the month.

However, as you're aware, our team score of 2716 was above the threshold score for the division we're shooting in this year and was adjusted to 2678. I'm not going to attempt to describe the calculation used to arrive at this score, but instead will quote from the BA Postal League documentation.

"When scores are submitted that exceed the 'division' scores... the following procedure will be applied:

A threshold will be set equal to the 'division' score plus an allowance of 150 for the Frostbite Round and 200 for the Portsmouth Round... In the case of scores that do exceed this threshold, the excess points scored above the threshold will be deducted from the threshold to arrive at the ADJUSTED score. "

So, this season our 'division' score is 2497 and the threshold score is 2697 (division score + 200). This month our score of 2716 exceeded the threshold by 19, so our adjusted score is the threshold score minus the excess, i.e. 2697 - 19 = 2678.

Apply the same calculation to Nethermoss' score this month and you get an adjusted score of 2634, i.e.

2760 (Nethermoss' actual score) - 2697 (threshold score) = 63
2697 (threshold score) - 63 = 2634 (Nethermoss' adjusted score).

Until such time as someone points out that your correspondent's maths is incorrect (wait for it...), I'm happy to report that this means in the Portsmouth league we now have two wins and one loss for a total of seven points and a running total score of 7918.

This month's result could be significant. Harlequin Bowmen A, the club we lost to in December, were beaten by Nethermoss the previous month. That leaves the three clubs with 7 points each from the first three rounds. It's all to shoot for in the remaining two rounds of this year's Portsmouth league.