Awards and/or Statistics

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Hello All,

I am wondering if there are any Intramural programs out there that do either Statistics for games or Awards for Intramural participants at the end of each year/semester/season etc (other than just Championship teams). I have a large force of student workers and one of the suggestions I continue to get from participants is to have my student workers track stats during games (goals, points, rebounds, saves, assists, highest participating Male and female, etc.) and maybe give an award to the leader in those categories. We give championship T-shirts to our winning teams in each sport so we could very easily give the leader of certain categories a prize like a T-shirt as well.
I wanted to get a feel though on if any other Institutions do this already? If so, what categories do you specifically recognize and how do you recognize them?

Thank you,
Jen Wehner
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI): Troy, NY

I like the idea personally, but I don't have the budget or staff to track statistics. We do post the folks that play the most at the end of the semester, however. No prize is associated with it.

Hi Jen,
We have gotten requests for that as well. But for sports like Flag football and basketball in which I have already have 4-5 student employees working it becomes difficult with budgeting and my smaller staff. However, what I have seen that has been very successful is doing just for championship games and announcing the championship game MVP based on goals, touchdowns, points etc. Those MVPs do not get an additional shirt or anything but they get to hold the game ball and it is announced they are MVP when we post results. Maybe that is a direction to think about. Hope that helps, good luck!

Mike Brosenne
Edinboro University

Based off of stats on IMLeagues, we had our first all-star games. We tested it out with basketball. 18 players for each league (A Leauge, B League, and Co-ed). Top two players from each league (based on stats) were the captains and they drafted their teams. This was a fun way for students to play with other students at their level, meet new people, and interact. Winning teams were posted on our "Wall of Champions" and on our Instagram page. We also have season MVP's and those are also posted on our social media and our "Wall of Champions." Students love seeing their name and love receiving recognition and I believe this is one of the best ways to do that. Also, it gives students a drive to become an "all-star" or an MVP, for bragging rights!

Prefacing this comment with that we cross train our staff, which may affect this a bit. We started trying to have our scorekeeper/table official keep stats throughout some games. With this we found that it is very difficult. We reverted to basically recording who scored a points as the additional seemed a bit over the top currently.

With flag as noted having multiple staff we have our back judge keep score and added a custom column for TD thrown/Caught and XP thrown/Caught that we asked them to record when they record the score. Granted this takes an extra moment, and some were more proficient than others, but I think is possible.

Other sports we hope to add assists eventually if possible and for goalies saves/blocks. Though we will see how this continues to develop next year.

Currently one of the challenges as noted is the varying abilities/knowledge of our scorekeepers/stat trackers, as some games we get a fairly thorough account others missing part of or the majority of points. This creates a large disparity as far as making an MVP or All-Star selection.