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Dynamic Universal Pickleball Rating (DUPR)
DUPR is an online global rating system for pickleball players. It uses a player’s match results to generate a skill rating on a scale from 2.0 to 8.0. The system is dynamic, meaning a player’s rating is continuously updated based on performance in both casual and competitive games.
In England there are an increasing number of events and competitions that enter results into DUPR. However, many players have a rating based on a limited number of games eg just the English Open and Nationals, so their DUPR is more of an indication than an absolute. It is also better to have results from playing a wide variety of opponents rather than a selected few from one club.
For more information please go to www.dupr.com where you can join up. Some competitions you enter will require a DUPR ID.
Picklebook
Picklebook is the portal for pickleball players’ membership of Pickleball England. It also provides clubs with management tools including for membership, sessions and communication.
BaD is currently using Spond for these functions so will not be introducing Picklebook for the time being, although the club is registered.
However, we do encourage all players to become members of Pickleball England. Please see the link below.
https://www.picklebook.org/a/pbe
Some new features
A big thank you to all for embracing our implementation of Spond earlier this year – it has been really invaluable in centralising our member data, managing some of our sessions and generally communicating with everyone.
We appreciate that some are more familiar than others in navigating their way around it but, aside from messaging and events, we just wanted to draw attention to some of the functions that provide useful information for all members but you may not be aware of.
If you go to “Groups” then select “BaD” you should have access to “Posts” and “Files” (amongst others). We shall add items of interest to both these areas periodically so please review regularly. In Files there will be items such as minutes to meetings, team lists, policy documents etc and in Posts there may be upcoming events, team results, pictures, social info etc.
Hope you find this useful and happy Spond surfing!!
Changes to club sessions
* There will be a new club session at Bishop’s Stortford every Saturday at 2-4pm starting in the New Year (3/1/26).
It will be open to all members with no booking required and we have 6 courts so really hoping for a good turnout – just a note that on the first week there will be a 1st team match running so club courts will be reduced to 3.
* We also plan to use this court time for the occasional “Super Saturday” or “Saturday Special” to organise things like drills, coaching, mini tournaments, DUPR rating sessions etc, which would require booking/commitment upfront but these are yet to be discussed so welcome any feedback.
* Please also be reminded that from the end of November the Wednesday Wodson session has now reverted to 1-3pm and there be an additional hour on a Friday for 1st, 2nd and Senior team practise that will be managed by the respective captains.
New club shirts now available
Go green with your old balls!!
We all love smashing and dinking them around the courts but we seem to get through a lot of cracked or squashed balls every week.
PLEASE don’t just throw them away.
They can be recycled into paddles for use by children. Hand them in at the end of the session and we will do the rest.
You’re never too young…..
I thought I’d share this picture of Jessica, my six-year-old granddaughter with you. She had to give a two-minute talk to her school class on any subject and she choose Pickleball after coming to watch me play in the county match.
Hopefully she has inspired some youngsters to pay Pickleball one day!!
Colin Walker