I lurk on these boards all the time thanks to some great threads you all have here, but thought I'd chime into this one too. I played about 5 times a week over a decade ago, then got into running, did lots of marathons etc, then found out in 2019 by accident that there was a local tennis league and decided to check it out just for Ss&Gs. Fast forward two years later and now I'm VP of said league, which has definitely come with some challenges but has been a rewarding experience.
Not sure how popular this format is, and 2019 was the first time I had heard about it, but we play Quads. So on Thursday nights there are 10 quads, each person plays with the other 3 people in their Quad, and the person with the most games won goes up a Quad, the person with the least goes down, and the other two stay. We start in April, play till end of June, take a break during July, then part 2 starts at the beginning of August until end of October.
Last year I started around Quad 6, made it to 3 once, went down immediately and finished around Quad 5. This year I started on Quad 5, would have been elated to finish around 3 or 2 consistently, but actually punched way above my weight and finished on Quad 1. I'm determined to stay there when we start back in August, so I've been playing a ton and taking some private lessons with a club pro.
On the administrative side, as VP there's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes. We have to keep a pretty steady rotation of subs, and if a member gets injured or moves, I and the other officers have to try to scramble to fill that spot. The husband of one of our members also put together this incredible spreadsheet, so all I have to do is enter scores, hit a button, and the spreadsheet calculates games won and outputs standings for the next week, with players moved up or down accordingly. On top of that we have a season-ending banquet where we do some fun awards, maybe some giveaways, etc. It's definitely been stressful but I'm surprised at how addicted I got to the Quad format. I'm going to fight like a caged animal when I play on Quad 1 next week just to prove that I belong there.