For anyone who is interested in learning about keeping stats at roller derby matches, General AK 40 oz of the Detroit Derby Girls Stat Army is teaching some of his new staff at upcoming DDG practices in Livonia, MI. Here's the schedule of topics:
Week - Topic:
4/20 - Lineup Tracking
4/27 - Penalty Box & Jam Timers
5/4 - Penalty systems/Ref calls
5/11 - Penalty Tracker
5/18 - Scorekeeper
5/25 - Referee & Action Tracking basics
If anyone is interested, contact me and I can get you in touch with AK 40 oz (or you could login to the DDG web forums and send him a PM). AK has usually been cool with folks from other organizations getting trained, although he usually likes to know ahead of time when/if folks will show up.
The DDG practices on Monday/Wednesday evenings in Livonia, MI, usually 8 to 10 pm or so.
I would recommend even GCR skaters attend these as not everyone will be skating in every bout and it would be good to have as many trained stats peeps as possible! Not to mention you can get in to some tournaments for free by working stats.
Rusty Wheeler
