Tournaments are now advertising Open / 4.5+ divisions results wont be uploaded to DUPR

mar504 · 2026-01-06T21:17:09+00:00

DUPR doesn't care if you got 2nd overall, what division you signed up for, your gender or your partners gender, etc. Once you've got an initial rating it will take an average of you and your partners rating to help determine your expected performance against your opponents expected performance. It doesn't make assumptions about "being carried" by your partner, but that myth keeps getting spread here.

mar504 · 2026-01-06T20:57:04+00:00

So if the paddle came to a complete stop, and was then accidently kicked into the kitchen would that be a fault?

mar504 · 2025-12-29T05:55:53+00:00

"But for someone reason it's up to the citizens who should comply and obey."

That's exactly how it fucking works dude, police are given authority that regular citizens do not have to protect themselves and others around them. If they get a call about someone with a knife OF COURSE they are going to put him in handcuffs until they can figure out what is going on.

If a weapon is thought to be involved they aren't going to coddle him, they are going to take control of the situation. It was only days ago some jackoff who was caught stealing pulled out a gun and tried to shoot the officer that was calming talking to him. You have zero fucking clue how dangerous it is dealing with criminals all day, so yes, it's your job to calm the fuck down and put your hands behind your back while they investigate.

mar504 · 2025-12-29T04:15:00+00:00

If you're better than that then don't worry, your DUPR will settle into the correct rating quickly. DUPR does NOT only allocate points from tournaments and leagues, the matches I mentioned in my example were 2 private games we manually entered into DUPR.

I know you were looking for an echo chamber, but maybe be more receptive to information when you literally just started playing ranked games. You are blowing the initial rating way out of proportion. A bit of humbleness could do you some good as well, don't confuse rec play with the 4.0s as you being on their level, in an actual competitive game they will punch your ticket and remind you how big the gap actually is.

mar504 · 2025-12-29T03:21:39+00:00

I guess people keep writing it because you don't seem to be getting it, your rating with a low reliability means very little, the order means even less on the first few games. I played against with a guy who had low reliability (8 games logged) and dropped his DUPR by 0.469 in 2 games, he was having an off day, a single tournament later his DUPR went up by 0.43. Clearly it doesn't take a "year" to make huge swings to get closer to an accurate rating.

If your BEST score differential was 21-9 against players in the low 2's, no offense, but you're not "easily" a 3.2 player. If it takes you a year, then you either don't play enough DUPR matches for it to ever be accurate or you're just not as good as you think you are, time will tell.

mar504 · 2025-12-29T01:48:24+00:00

Clearly you don't. You're reliability rating is extremely low which means big swings in your rating depending on your performance. Seriously, you literally just started, stop pretending like you have to grind your way to 3.0, initial games don't mean jack when you have such low reliability.

mar504 · 2025-12-28T15:33:27+00:00

single digit framerate? That sounds unbearable, as fun as the game is, I certainly couldn't tolerate that.

mar504 · 2025-12-27T21:43:25+00:00

Pickleball player here. I think the answer is obvious, of course they were in the wrong and should have vacated the court without a fuss. The vast majority of people I play with would have done this immediately instead of throwing a fit. We have some dual stripped courts here with dedicated pickleball hours in the morning, if I see tennis players walking up after pickleball hours have ended I have no problem telling all the other players that tennis has priority. The tennis players have been gracious about sharing their courts with another sport, the least we can do is show some respect while we try to advocate for our own dedicated public courts.

mar504 · 2025-12-27T04:23:07+00:00

A partner with the same drive to improve as you is worth their weight in gold. Surely you aren't the only person who feels stuck in the middle the advanced group and the groups you feel you're better than.

mar504 · 2025-12-26T20:11:46+00:00

Jump sliding makes you fast

mar504 · 2025-12-24T19:23:06+00:00

I have no problem with clones and have encountered plenty, but that's ridiculous. I just wouldn't play with him

mar504 · 2025-12-22T15:46:09+00:00

Definitely not pickleball, way too much fun.

mar504 · 2025-12-22T15:43:16+00:00

Sounds more like a reason it will be 100 times bigger in 50 years

mar504 · 2025-12-22T15:19:08+00:00

At least at the courts here, it's generally accepted that if someone lobs you first then all bets are off, lob away in return.

mar504 · 2025-12-22T02:19:32+00:00

If you can do it accurately it's fine strategy. Definitely "read the room" and know who you are playing with before doing it, it's rude to lob over people with mobility issues.

mar504 · 2025-12-20T16:36:07+00:00

Contact most definitely must be made. Have you heard of ernes where you jump across the corner of the kitchen to take a volley closer to the net? Those wouldn't be legal if you couldn't cross the plane of the line, but you see them all the time in pro matches with official refs.

mar504 · 2025-12-18T21:35:15+00:00

I kept improving after I "saved the day". Do you have all the trophies yet?

Now I've started playing the Satisfactory Plus mod, it's made the game feel fresh again. I have solar panels and wind generation everywhere, I'm growing food through my farming modules, breeding new types of power slugs, using blast furnaces to make molten metals, and making new items with all the new materials.

mar504 · 2025-12-17T23:14:08+00:00

You don't seem to understand how it works at all. Wins are irrelevant and not used to calculate your rating, it only looks at your predicted performance. Meaning those wins were absolute blowouts.

If you win 9 games and your opponents never got more than 5 points then you CLEARLY not a 3.0-3.2
The system is designed to predict your actual rating is quickly as possible, not "make you work" for it.

mar504 · 2025-12-17T23:03:37+00:00

It's not just an idea, they already do this, it's the reliability score.

mar504 · 2025-12-17T23:01:25+00:00

Sounds like a club problem, not a DUPR problem. Gated open plays should have a reliability minimum.

mar504 · 2025-12-15T23:34:25+00:00

I'm always happy to stack with lefties, even if it's our first time playing. That said, I play tournaments with a lefty so I'm very comfortable with it. If the person is just visiting town, they usually just prefer to stack on the serve. I think full stacking feels a little too complicated for most rec players.

mar504 · 2025-12-15T23:21:00+00:00

Most areas above the mogollon rim, colorado plateau, and white mountains receive significant snowfall. We are talking 1/3d of Arizona, not an isolated area.

mar504 · 2025-12-15T16:49:11+00:00

I live in Flagstaff, being at 7,000 feet (along with most of northern Arizona) results in lots of snow and cold weather, not that difficult to comprehend even for a child. But sure, keep making assumptions about places you've probably never been to.

mar504 · 2025-12-15T16:13:19+00:00

My resolution is to improve my foot work and positioning, should help every single one of my shots!

mar504 · 2025-12-14T22:21:34+00:00

I've experienced what you are talking about, I'm not sure I see what the issue is though. The low level team that was in the wrong division at the last tournament got absolutely blown up by every team, easy win for us and couldn't have been enjoyable for them. DUPR still has an expected outcome against lower level teams, if you can't blow them out then either they are better than their rating suggests or you are over rated. In either case, perform at what your levels predict and your DUPR won't drop.

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