So, USTA League Nationals are over, when will 2018 year-end NTRP ratings be published?

With the completion of Mixed Nationals this weekend, everyone's attention will now turn to year-end ratings so players can prepare for their 2018 leagues and form teams at the right level.  Naturally, to know the right level, players need to know their 2018 year-end rating.

First, players that played at least three matches in a league that counts towards ratings will receive a new year-end rating for 2018 (there are a few more qualifiers, but that is the basic criteria).  If you didn't play the requisite three matches, your prior rating will carry over, unless it is 3 years old in which case it will expire and you will have to self-rate again to join a team in 2019.

In some areas like mine, 2019 leagues start early in January and teams must form in December.  In fact, we have to have team forms with minimum rosters turned in the first week of December, so learning what rating one is at as early as possible is desirable.

The general rule of thumb is that ratings are published around December 1st, or another rule of thumb is the week after Thanksgiving.  These are usually close to the same, but this year Thanksgiving is very early, and December 1st is a Saturday.  Hopefully they don't want for the first Monday of December as that would be the 3rd and really put a squeeze on teams in my area having to turn forms in I believe on the 4th.

Here is a history of when they've been published the last few years, typically late in the day/evening PST which is sometimes early AM the next day EST:

• 2017 - Thursday November 30
• 2016 - Wednesday November 30
• 2015 - Monday November 30
• 2014 - Monday December 1
• 2013 - Monday December 2
• 2012 - Monday November 26

We see a lot of Monday releases, but the last couple years they were mid-week.

Given that Thanksgiving is so early, my guess (and hope?) is that ratings are published mid/late the week after Thanksgiving, somewhere around the 29th.  Although, in 2012 when Thanksgiving was early, they were out early the week after.  I do not think they will wait for December though.  But who knows, my guess could be wrong.

Last year the USTA put a countdown timer up on TennisLink telling us when ratings would be published.  It will be interesting to see if they do that again.

We are less than two weeks from the ratings likely being published, so many of you will just wait to see where you end up, but if you are interested in a more detailed analysis showing how I estimate all your matches have rated and how they affected your dynamic rating, contact me for a report.