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Ok, our Fall 2001 Season was wrapped up last week! Our last season we saw great battles throught all three leagues! I even had my doubts, being on the B Leagues winning Brewhound team. Going into our last match vs. The 4 Deuces, we found ourselves losing 0 - 2 and in desperate need to re-adjust our stategy! Needless to say, it was battle all the way! Our hats go off to you who call yourselves 4 Deuces! I am not sure exactly whats going on with the website.. you see I am not in control of our domain name (sfda.net), therefor when it became time to upgrade our server options (get more space), as far back as April 2001, I could only inform the party to which this name is under. I tried and became frustrated by November well after 7 months. So do not be surprised if suddenly we are at a new location like: sfdarts.com or sfda.tv or some other close venue. Of course we’ll let everyone know where exactly we’ll be at, and we still hope for resolution to the sfda.net issues. The main thing that I am doing now to keep our site up to date with current information and pictures is that I am archiving our 1999 pictures and soon our 2000 pictures. Don’t worry, they’ll be up as soon as these server issues are solved! I always burn a CD with our website and newsletter info every three months so we won’t lose a thing! Recently at a board meeting, I was trying to decipher the ever-complex line that our rankings and signups and match results take. Now I am no Einstein, but I sense that there may be a better way to handle all three cumbersome items. Lets say for instance we input our signups with the same laptop computer as we do our rankings on, now lets go a step further, this data we input in the laptop computer |
is at the same location as our match results get called in and conveniently the results from wednesday evenings matchs are typed in with ease. Tie all this up with the fact that there will be no more people who play matchs without their signup fee (the computer will red flag the name if they aren’t paid). Now imagine there was a vast information tecnology that circumfrenced the world and you could access this all with the push of a button... oh yeah you can, its called the computer. I understand that ‘new’ frightens most people, intil they themselves catch the fever that drives so many to operate computers. The problem to my solution is we do not have a laptop computer, nor the program to access all the pertinent information from. Let me get you deeper into this problem, because there are always counter-problems and other things that inhibit progress. Most of us see Bob Martell on his computer at all the major shoots around here and in Tahoe and for the ADO sanctioned events also! His laptop generates random shooters for tournaments, he does his website stats on it, and he can do alot more! Its not magic, its certainly not hard to learn if you really want to learn. Lets step on the ledge here, our Association needs to come up with ways to earn a little more money to keep staying even at the ledger. Think about it, 200 members x $20 membership fee = @ $4,000 add sponsor fees, say about 12 sponsors x $110 = @ $1,320 and the website/newsletter generates @ $460 , in total about $6,000 per season which is $12,000 per year, aproximately.
We spent almost $10,000 during this past season. I saw the itemized list. Its almost close to impossible to single out any one item in particular and say we could do without it. |
Our top expenditure is the ADO, but without it, we wouldn’t be sending out best players to win all the spots they’ve been winning. This alone is a grand advertisement to the spirit and dedication our S.F.D.A. provides. Our second stand out expenditure is the website. But again, spent $597 this year and got back $460 of it. With more money in advertising coming in this 2002 season, I see the website/newsletter as a money maker and great becon to our humble league in the west. So we spend @ $2,000 on our awards banquet including trophys, there’s $4,000 per/yr along with shirts one season, and our newsletter we spend less then $500 an issue, so its around $2,000/yr. So there’s the problem and the answer in a nutshell ... yeah I’m the nut. Lets buy a $1,200 laptop and a $300 program, then we’ll keep it at Bob’s house, (results line), but every 6 season weeks he’ll give it to Ron who’ll do the rankings and hand it back to Bob, who will, during board meetings, bring it with him so the webmaster can suck it dry of all its info, and Bob will return home with it. And on signup day he hands it off to JR or Lois who will input the names and fees added. BAM sounds too easy. I think the smoother our board runs things the more the board can concentrate on the one thing that will gain us moneys, which in turn will open up new doorways our Association can persue and that one thing is more members.
Its a win/win situation and if we budget correctly and utilize our resources correctly could have extra money every season and we could bring the large steel tip tournaments back to San Francisco! A pipe dream? hmmm you be the judge. Then again, it’s only my opinion.
your webmaster, - RAD {:-()> |
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