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27-May-08:
PSA Revises
PAR Scoring Reporting

 

The Board of the PSA has decided to revise the reporting of its scoring system with effect from 1 June.

 

The PSA's move in August 2004 to reduce of the points in a game from 15 to 11 transformed men's professional squash - making the sport more attacking, more exciting, and considerably enhancing its spectator and television appeal.

 

When a game score reached 10-10, a 'tie-break' was introduced, the winner needing a lead of two clear points. A game finishing at, say, '15-13' was reported as '11-10 (5-3)'.

 

From 1 June, all game scores will be reported in full.

 

"Our original intention was to make the presentation of our results simpler, with all games finishing at 11 points," said PSA President Alex Gough. "But after lobbying from various sections of the game - and the realisation that the full presentation of the scores is clear and acceptable to the general sports world - we have decided to make the change."

 

Steve Cubbins, the webmaster of www.squashsite.co.uk and one of the leading campaigners for the change, commented: "PSA's move to 11-scoring was undoubtedly a great success, and the '2-clear' element added much excitement to many matches.

 

"However the 11-10 (x-x) reporting method took a simple system (first to 11, 2 clear) and made it unnecessarily complicated, so SquashSite decided to report matches 'as they happened', eg 15/13.

 

"We are delighted that a standard method of recording the score, reflecting what actually happens, has been agreed."

 

WISPA, who recently announced that the women's professional game will also move to PAR scoring to 11 in July, will also adopt the new presentation.

First to 11, 2 clear. Five words. Easy   Steve's campaign
  

12-May-08:
WISPA to move
to PAR Scoring


In the first scoring system change in the history of women's professional squash, the Women’s International Squash Players' Association has decided today that all matches played on the WISPA World Tour from 21st July will move to what it terms Pro-Scoring.

The decision, taken at today's WISPA Board meeting held on finals day of the Dunlop British Open in Liverpool, will introduce scoring of 'point a rally' to 11 points (PAR11) - the same as that used on the PSA Men’s Tour. The initiative will be launched at the CIMB Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur.

"After a 16 month period of testing we have assured ourselves that Pro-Scoring will work well for our Tour - it will be simple to understand for spectators and viewers, and align the professional game, the men having already settled into PAR 11," affirmed WISPA Chief Executive Andrew Shelley.

WISPA President Natalie Grainger added: "Pro-Scoring has been very enthusiastically received at our trial events so I am excited that we have made the change. It will take our players a short while to adapt to the different structure of games but I have no doubt whatsoever that this is another forward step for women’s international squash."

 
NOTE: Pro-Scoring is played best of five games to 11 points, with points being scored irrespective of which player serves. Where the score reaches ten all, the game will be won by two clear points (which will be expressed as 11-10, irrespective of the actual score, in the way that tennis tie breaks are written as 7-6).

So says the addendum to the WISPA release.

The intention is apparently to just ignore the "extra points", because non-squash people won't understand how games can finish on other than 11.

For one, the tennis analogy is completely bogus, and two, why on earth would we want to hide the actual score ?

11 reasons why
it's a bad idea


A personal view,
from Steve Cubbins
 

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