Pickleball Ladder League

Join us for the Buhl Park Pickleball Ladder League 2024

• First session: Tuesdays May 14, 2024 – June 18, 2024
• Second session: Tuesdays July 9, 2024 – August 13, 2024
• Warm-up Time: 5 PM – 6 PM
• Start Time: 6 PM – please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start time. 
• Location: Pickleball courts are located behind the Golf Shop
• Price: $40 per person + $0.95 online convenience fee added at checkout.

League Info:

1. Each ladder will run for 6 consecutive weeks starting on May 14 and July 9 and ending on June 18 and August 13.
2. If you need to report off for a night, you will need to send a text message to the league administrator no later than 4:00 PM on the day of play. Everything is done by hand as there is no magic program to do all the paperwork when someone doesn’t show. With that in mind, if you do miss and report off you will only drop one rung in the ladder. Each miss with a report off will drop you one rung each time. If you do not report off, you will drop an entire group. If you miss a second time without a report off, you will drop to the bottom of the entire ladder. Please try to keep all report-offs to a minimum.
3. The courts will be reserved from 5:00 PM on, so you will have plenty of time to warm up. We will start playing at 6:00 PM, so please be on time. Open play is encouraged after the ladder, so stick around and get some extra games in.
4. All groups will be scheduled for 5 players, but if there are report-offs, we will of course have to adjust that. What we try to do is keep the same group, so if a report-off occurs in group 1, we will just keep that at 4 instead of bringing up a player to make a fifth. This works well in keeping the movement of players where they finish and not jumping over some for no reason. All games are round-robin, so you will play with and against each player in your group. In groups of 5, one player will get a bye each round. Groups of 5 will play to 11 win by 2 and groups of 4 will play to 15, win by 2.
5. Your movement within the ladder is first by the number of wins, followed by points scored. If players tie in wins and points scored, the player seeded lowest will be the one to move up as the higher seed was expected to win that match. You will see lots of movement in the first few weeks until things get equaled out. If you win your group, you will move up to the next group and consequently, if you lose your group you will drop to the next group down. Seeding for the groups has been random first by grouping skill levels and then by a blind draw. Unfortunately, there really isn’t a good way to do seeding with so many players in the same skill level groups. We try to be as fair as possible.
6. Results will be e-mailed to you the following day and no later than Thursday.
7. In the event of a rainout, the make-up date will be added onto the following Tuesday after the final scheduled week of the league session.

Refund Policy:

• Refunds can be administered, minus a $15 administration fee, up to 7 days before the start of the league session start date registered for.
• No refunds will be given within 7 days of the league session start date registered for.
• Contact Director of Operations, Ryan Voisey, to inquire about a refund at ryan@buhlpark.org