Big Jim hits it just about right. This year we will have
3,090 players spread amongst 164 teams. The top two levels,
Competitive and RecA play on Monday/Wednesday and
Tuesday/Thursday respectively, while RecB, RecC and RecD
occur on both pairs of nights. RecC is further divided into
Gold and Silver divisions. All in all it ends up being 8 ~20
team divisions.

Jim is also right that Madison has a well-maintained and
incredibly inexpensive parks system, with over 7,000 acres
of parkland within the Madison city limits. (Although that
counts beachers, golf courses, and other park facilities.
About 2,100 acres are parks that have sport field areas in
them) New neighborhoods that are emerging on the outskirts
of the city all have new parks built within the
subdivisions, and MUFA has built an excellent relationship
with the city parks department that has allowed us to get
early access to those parks. In summer we use ten parks that
we have a total of 30 fields at per evening.

It's a pretty spectacular feeling having ultimate becoming
the major recreational sport in the area. The inexpensive
nature of the parks and a healthy sponsorship from a local
brewpub allow us to keep the league costs very low, making
the league incredibly accessible.
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