Why I love my noontime ultimate group.

I play ultimate frisbee at noon MWF with a rag tag group of technical types from the local area. When I introduced myself one of them asked what I did for a living. When I replied that I was unemployed, he followed up with, "Oh, what kind of engineer are you?". That would be electrical...

So, we have an email list that everyone responds to so we can get a head count for the games. If there's not enough interest (usually need 8 people) the game is cancelled. One of fellows (Casey) has created a program that creates (he claims) balanced teams by tallying the responses and comparing the players present to a skill table that he created. The email discussion went something like this:

Casey wrote:
I have written an Outlook add-in that attempts to pick even teams based on the day's disc-l mailing list responses. At 11:30am M/W/F it will send out an email, telling you which shirt to wear out to the field.

Let me know if you are interested in me turning this thing on. If the general consensus is yes, I will send out more information about it, and turn it on for Friday.

Andy wrote:
Ok, I'll be the one to ask: does it generate the teams randomly, or have you assigned some role-playing game-esque statistics to each of us?

Tom wrote:
Andy, I've seen his data. You are a level 5 Orc with +2 charisma.

Tim wrote:
What is a 5 orc ??

Chris wrote:
It doesn't matter since anyone who knows doesn't have charisma either.

Andy wrote:
It looks like Tim just outed himself as someone who probably had dates in high school...


For the record, I never dated in high school, but even then I knew what a level 5 orc was....