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player travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Saturday, 9 June 2012, at 7:30 p.m.

From the Calcutta sheets of a dozen Midwest tournaments I attended since beginning of 2009, I approximated the travel times of individual players and tallied them for both the Open and Advanced/Intermediate divisions. You can use these as you like. I was mostly concerned with the totals, which show that half of Open players are more than 5 hours driving time with only 18% within an hour. Intermediates are closer, divided roughly 1/3 each among < 1 hr, 1 to 5 hrs, and more than 5 hrs.

			drive time	drive time	drive time
	year	tournament	<1 hr	1--5 hr	> 5 hr	total
OPEN
	2009	Pitt	5	20	38	63
		Midwest	22	12	31	65
		Michigan	17	27	50	94
		Wisconsin	4	22	20	46
		Peoria	5	24	9	38
	2010	Pitt	4	21	38	63
		Chicago	10	7	12	29
		Wisconsin	5	18	8	31
	2011	Chicago	21	8	29	58
		Michigan	9	24	43	76
		Peoria	5	19	13	37
	2012	Chicago	14	10	40	64
	sum		121	212	331	664
	%		18.2%	31.9%	49.8%
Adv/Intermed.
	2009	Pitt	10	25	25	60
		Midwest	24	17	19	60
		Michigan	17	18	23	58
		Wisconsin	5	9	9	23
		Peoria	12	11	3	26
	2010	Pitt	12	33	19	64
		Chicago	11	4	8	23
		Wisconsin	5	8	5	18
	2011	Chicago	21	9	12	42
		Michigan	22	16	19	57
		Peoria	17	12	1	30
	2012	Chicago	12	10	12	34
	sum		168	172	155	495
	%		33.9%	34.7%	31.3%

Messages In This Thread

• player travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys
  Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 9 June 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
  • travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys (rev.)
    Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 10 June 2012, at 3:23 p.m.
    • travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys (rev.)
      Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 10 June 2012, at 7:40 p.m.
      • travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys (rev.)
        Chuck Bower -- Monday, 11 June 2012, at 5:16 p.m.
        • travel distance for some US Midwest tourneys (rev.)
          Joe Russell -- Tuesday, 12 June 2012, at 12:45 a.m.