{"id":1268,"date":"2023-10-05T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2023-10-05T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T23:01:46","slug":"good-clubs-big-districts-or-little-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/05\/good-clubs-big-districts-or-little-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Good clubs: Big districts or little districts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do big districts or little districts do a better job of supporting their clubs? There’s a logical argument going either way; big districts have more resources and depth in talent, and small districts allow more focused attention. I ran the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roughly, for every additional 100 clubs in the district base, there’s 11% higher level of distinguished clubs, e.g., from 100 clubs at 38% to 200 clubs at 49% to 300 clubs at 60%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance base is the last 5 years across all districts, spreadsheet attached <\/a>with graphs to make the story clear. Stratifying the data into deciles of performance makes the trend even more apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you get past the 200 clubs level, it’s VERY unusual for the percent of distinguished clubs to drop below 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think the reason is that while areas and divisions are all about the same size regardless of the district, the trio candidates come from a much larger pool in big districts, resulting in better trios and better better club performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My own district (originally 30) has ranged in size from nearly 250 (2013-17, pre-split) to 80-odd clubs (post split, and still shrinking). We often had multiple good candidates for LGM\/CGD before — and now we struggle to get one decent candidate and a weak placeholder candidate to meet the required two minimum. We’re recycling past PDGs\/PDDs into the trio again more often as well (which we NEVER did as a large district).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the action? When splitting, I mean REFORMING districts, I think we should set a higher threshold, like 120 clubs in the resulting districts. Let bigger districts get a little bit bigger before splitting if necessary. Close\/consolidate districts sooner than a low end of 60, maybe set a minimum of 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do big districts or little districts do a better job of supporting their clubs? There’s a logical argument going either way; big districts have more resources and depth in talent, and small districts allow more focused attention. I ran the numbers. Roughly, for every additional 100 clubs in the district base, there’s 11% higher level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[148,73,147,149],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-toastmasters","tag-big-toastmasters-district","tag-dcp","tag-distinguished-clubs","tag-little-toastmasters-districts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}