The purpose of our Player Priority Assignment system is to select players for Torrey Pines tournaments when an event is oversubscribed. Our priority assignment software is designed to give each member a fair opportunity to play in Torrey events by giving higher priorities to those who have played in a Torrey event less recently (versus more recently). Normally this will mean that a member who signs up to play every Torrey event will miss no more than one or two consecutive events.
Each member has a date recorded by our website that is the last tournament played at Torrey Pines. These dates are downloaded for each member signed up for a tournament and Excel spreadsheets with embedded formulas are used to rank players based on his “last-Torrey-play-date”. Those who have last-play-dates furthest from the tournament date have higher priority to play. For members with the same last-play-date, a random number generator is used to determine priority.