Congratulations on another fine year of Ultimate, and thanks to Eric and LeighAnn for hosting the end-of-season party. Those at the party saw Bill award the traditional trophies, of which you must be present to win. And I had fun quizzing everyone to match up the records set for each of the last 16 years with a set of records. First place was a tie, with 2 out of 16 correct answers. I’ll have to make future tests a tad easier.

This year, we set just one all-time record, a disappointing tie for the most number of rainouts in a year (4). That wouldn’t have been so bad, except we also played at least 2 other games in drizzle. At least the field didn’t turn brown this year.

We did have some other more notable stats:

• We opened the season on April 6, the second earliest ever, missing the record set in 2000 by 2 days.
• We tied the record for the second-highest number of players in a game: 26 at the beach on July 27. That 4-way tie for 2nd place still pales in comparison to the stunning 34 players we had on the beach in 2002.
• We tied the record for the second-highest number of players for the season, at 69, tying with the 2002 season that had held for 7 years until shattered last year with the ridiculous total of 78.
• Our total of 24 new players was good for 5th best of all time.
• We had a respectable average of 14.1 players per game, even though we had 2 games of Hot Box with just 4 and 6 players, due the crummy weather I mentioned earlier.

Interestingly, only Brian had a streak of 10 or more games in a year. Several years we’ve had 4 or 5 players do this.

Below is the summary of players with 5 or more games played. Good luck topping your attendance next year!

	Bill	21
	Eric	19
	Brian	19
	Jeff	19
	Pete	17
	Kurt	17
	Erick	16
	Dale	16
	Bob	14
	Jon	13
	Scott	12
	Eliot	11
	Tim	9
	Roger	9
	Dave	8
	Jon	8
	Hope	7
	Sarah	7
	Darryl	6
	Rich	6
	Ara	6
	Ted	6
	Lauren	5
	Richard	5