Send me a PM. We are exploring ways for our club to be more active as a club and am wondering if match play format works club against another team?

A club could easially form a team. you'll need 5 two man "squads" with at least 3 extra alternates.
The entire "team" would never fish together unless you made it to the championship where two entire teams fish against each other. 10 boats, 20 anglers

So how would your reccommend that we get started in something like this?

Well, match play wont start up again until April or may and I'm sure the teams will start forming by FEB. I dont know that I'll be running things this year, but Money will need to be in probably the month before the season kicks off. For the last two years its been $500.00 per team which comes out to $50.00 per man. The alternates dont pay. If you havent already, you can click the link in my siggy to get a little more info.

raidergrad,
The workings of the Matchplay are pretty simple. The schedule comes out at the first of the year and you see which team you are to fish against for each month. Then you contact that team and decide on a lake and date and fishing times for the match. You meet, fish and then send in the results of the match and at the end of the year the two top teams fish for the championship.
The best things about the format are meeting some great people and fishing different lakes. This year I had the opportunity to fish Lake Graham and Holbrook for the first time. Jim even put us up at his house for the night before our Graham tournament and we had a blast. We also met Jody and Steve for dinner before our Holbrook night tournament which was great. And then to meet Les Kennedy for our match on Richland Chambers and talk to him about his upcoming trip to Lake Toho in Florida for the Federation National tournament was great. We also had matches on Richland Chambers, Cedar Creek & Ray Hubbard so most of the year we didn't have to go very far for our matches.
And of course being lucky enough to be in a second championship and winning was great but it was also fun just meeting some more of the guys involved in the Matchplay.

Hey Raidergrad, you might try going to Basschamps homepage and find about about thier match play program. I don't know if they are doing it this year but that setup would work for a club. But it is more on an individual basis instead of a team. They would start with lots of fishermen and then eliminate til they only had 4 left and they would fish a championship. You could work it down to the top 6.

http://www.basschamps.com

Jody

Chad,

I hope you are still running it next year. Good help is hard to find and you are TOP NOTCH.

You did an awesome job this year....


Jody

What Donny said and then some!

He did a great job taking over for Bob Smith (The Father of TFF Matchplay)

Team SWEEEET Salutes you both...

sure would like to find someone to take the reins.

I'm not finding anything on Basschamps about matchplay. Maybe I overlooked it..
Did they have the matchplay Championship aired on TV last year?