NSL League Info - Summer 2012

Registration Page | Calendar | AFDA Fees | League Costs | Nationals Players | League Regulations | Commissioners | Lost Property | Shoes

Registration Page

The Registration Page for the NSL Summer League 2012 can be found here.

Calendar

AFDA Fees

The AFDA (Australian Flying Disc Association) is the National body for disc (frisbee) sports, which provides us with insurance cover. As a result, each event that you play in includes AFDA fees to cover the costs of insurance, plus other benefits. AFDA fees are set at $1.32 per game, and these AFDA fees are included in the total league fee payable by each player in the table below.

Summer League Costs

The cost per division (including AFDA fees) for the NSL Summer League 2012 is as follows:

• Please note that the NSL Bank Account details have changed recently. Delete the old account from your bank records and ensure you use the new account.
• In order to qualify for the team discount, all registered members of a team must pay together by EFT or cheque in one single payment by Friday 28 October.
• If a person is registered on a team that pays in a group payment, and is not included within that team payment, that person will be charged $80.00, regardless of whether or not they pay by Friday 28 October.
• In order to prove that an EFT payment has been made, players will need to email, or give to, their divisional commissioner, a copy of their receipt. Without a receipt, payment will be considered NOT to have occurred and players will need to repay before playing. The onus is strictly upon players and captains to ensure that documentation is provided as proof of payment.
• EFT Payments can be made over the Internet or at any Westpac Bank Branch. Players should ensure that the transactions they make have sufficient details attached to them that the payment can be easily located by the relevant divisional commissioner. An example of this would be: John Smith paying $80.00 for his Division 2 individual league fees in Team Z - "Div2-JSmith-TeamZ" Where a team payment is being made, just the Division number and the team name is required. An example of this is John Smith paying $650.00 for Team Z in Division 2 - "Div2-TeamZ". All NSL payments should be made to the New South Wales Flying Disc Association Inc NSL Account.
• Please note that any players who make payments into incorrect accounts (including AFDA held accounts) will need to seek refunds for themselves from the relevant account holders. The NSL will not be held responsible for player payments made to incorrect accounts.
• A 3-week trial period will apply to new players in divisions 3 and 4 only. To qualify, that person must be someone who has never played ultimate before. Having "only played in a hat" or "tried ultimate at the towel" does not qualify a player for a trial period. A trial player must be registered with an AFDA number. A trial player who wishes to continue playing for the remainder of the league must pay their league fees before the fourth week after they began playing. The trial period exists for 3 consecutive weeks only!
• IE: Players who begin their trial periods on the 1st night of league (Monday 31 October) and decide to play the remainder of the season, must have paid their league fees before their 4th possible game (Monday 21 November).

Nationals Players

Division 4

No more than 1 Nationals Level player on the field at any time

Division 3

No more than 2 Nationals Level players on the field at any time, including a maximum of 1 Worlds Level player on that team roster

Division 2

No more than 7 Nationals Level players on the team roster, including a maximum of 2 Worlds Level players on that team roster (NB: A Nationals Player is considered to be anyone who has played at Nationals Level Event in the previous 18 months, counting backwards from the NSL League season start date.)

The NSL recognises that there are differences in standards between players who have played at Nationals Level Events, and that not all players who play at Nationals Level Events should be considered as "Nationals Players". As such, any team that finishes in the bottom 15% at a Nationals Level Event (Open, Womens or Mixed) will, by rule, be excluded from consideration in determining a players "Nationals" status. In practice, this will apply as follows:

Any enquiries about a players 'status' can be directed to the League Co-ordinator.

League Regulations

1. The NSL has a gender split ratio of 4/3 offence decides. In all Divisions, the team that is on offence at the beginning of the point will decide whether they wish to play 4 men/3 women or 4 women/3 men on the field. Whatever on field ratio the offense chooses to play with, the defence MUST match them for gender in that point.
2. Each team is responsible for keeping score. At the end of their game, each team must email their divisional commissioner the next day (Tuesday) with their spirit and game scores by 5pm. Any team that fails to do this is liable to forfeit that game.
3. If a team is found to have submitted deliberately false scores to their divisional commissioner, they will receive no points from that match. A second such offence will see that team removed from the competition.
4. Pick up players are allowed, but they must be approved by the opposition captain. The commissioner of that division must also be advised after the game of any pick up players used.
5. Once a player registers for a team, they are not a pick up and must pay before playing again with that team.
6. A pick up player must be a registered AFDA member.
7. A pick up player may play up to 4 times during a season in a division without paying (however only twice with any one team). They must pay league fees before playing their 5th game in that division, otherwise the team they play with will forfeit. (Please see the NSL Rules page for "International Pick-Up Players"). League Commissioners will do their best to advise team captains of when players have played 4 matches in a division, but the onus rests strictly on captains to check with pick-ups how many games they have played.
8. Teams can be forfeited if less than 5 people are on the line 15 minutes after the game should have started. This will be enforced at the commissioner's discretion.
9. When the time cap goes, teams are allowed to play out the point.
10. Players can only be registered on 1 team in each timeslot. This means, for example, it is not possible to be registered on teams in both Divisions 1 and 3 during the same season.
11. Players may switch teams (in the same division) until the half way point of the league, but only where the relevant Divisional Commissioner has approved such a transfer. Players may not switch teams after this point in the season.
12. Players must play at least 3 games for a team during the regular season to be eligible to play for that team in the Finals.
13. "Commissioners discretion" can be applied where extenuating circumstances can be shown.

League Commissioners

Each Division has its own league commissioner, whose responsibilities are listed below.

The current NSL Commissioners are:

Lost Property

Each season, there is a significant amount of lost (and found) property. The NSL has a Lost Property Officer to co-ordinate these items. The Lost Property Officer will keep a list of things that have been lost, and who has lost them, AND a list of things that have been found, and who the current holder is. If any of these items can be matched up to their correct owners, the Lost Property Officer will attempt to do this.

If you have lost (or found) something, please contact the nsl-lost-property [at] ufnsw [dot] com [dot] au (Lost Property Officer) so that we can return the item to its owner, if possible.

Responsibilities of Commissioners

• Collect payments and receipts from teams in their division and verify that all players have paid.
• Field enquiries about their division.
• Blow whistle at appropriate game start and finish times.
• Collect scores at the end of games.
• Ensure cones are at the fields for each game, and that they are recovered at the end of the night.
• Keep a list of pick ups in their division and take adequate action if a person plays four games as a pick-up within that division.
• Enforcement of league rules

Shoes for Summer League

Ultimate Frisbee NSW, along with other summer season sportsground hirers, has been approached by the councils where we hire fields for the Northern Suburbs League (Ryde Council, Willoughby Council, North Sydney Council), to change the shoes we wear for the Summer League competition. The main reason for this is that last winter was harsher than normal, and the fields in these councils have not recovered as well as they normally do. As part of the hiring conditions for this summer season, we will need to use the grass/turf type of shoes that are typically used for touch football. These have small dimples rathet than cleats or moulded studs, and a softer sole. These types of shoes have a lighter impact on grass fields than normal cleats do.

Therefore, based on this requirement from councils as part of our field hire this summer, the NSL will require players to only wear these styles of grass/turf shoes for Summer League (we will be able to again wear normal cleats for Winter League play) in all divisions. We have no choice but to implement this if we wish to continue playing on fields in these councils over summer.

Some examples of legal shoes are shown here:

Most sports stores should have these styles of shoes, including Rebel Sport, and possibly big retailer such as KMart and Big W.