Club Ratings

[Jon Brakel]

I just doubled the weight of the HPCM. Here are the adjusted figures.

[Jon Brakel]

Here are the latest ratings.

[Jon Brakel]

May and June's Safaries did not have enough people to be mathematically significant. The weekly singles leagues haven't either. So, April is actually up to date.



Anyone, it seems, can request the ratings spread sheet materials from the PDGA, but I was asked not to post the actual spread sheets.

[Jon Brakel]

Don't be too hard on yourself Brett. You had some great shots out there. That course can eat you alive when you get off the fairway. And, of course, when you're not in the groove, a deuce or die course is difficult to recover any ground once you get behind. Consistency is the key, Grasshopper. You will get there soon.



I was pleased to finish and to find 11 deuces in the first round (even though I found 8! bogies). Then to finish the second round with 4 deuces on the last 6 holes was cool as well.

[Jon Brakel]

The West Park Flyers are almost exclusively NOT online, so I doubt they will be posted anywhere except pdga.com for ratings.



I finished the day even par -3 from the whites, +3 from the reds. I came in 39th place out of 53. Considering I was playing up a division, I think I did ok. Brett was hot and cold all day. He came in +3 for the day in 44th place. He had some great shots and some other experiences in the shule as well as not very much chain love (they are Mach II there so there isn't too much chain love out there). Bruce shot under par all day and came in 2nd in the old guy advanced division. Becky won the Women's intermediate on Saturday and came in 2nd in women's advanced on Sunday. Scott Martin won again for Open. Fun was had by all of the Brakels.

[Jon Brakel]

Gary doesn't have a website. The West Park Flyers are not represented in the cyber.

[Bruce Brakel]

Jon, I'm not getting anything when I click on that link.  When I click on that link a window pops up in Word that says Embed Excel 8.

[Bruce Brakel]

.doc is the default extension for Word files.  I can display Word.doc files without a problem.  Can you offer any suggestions as to how I can display the .doc file you posted?

[Bruce Brakel]

This might be helpful to help you help me if you are inclined to be helpful:



The first two .docs on this thread are Word files with Word tables in them.  They open fine.



The second two .docs on this thread do not open for me.  Maybe you could repost the table as a Word table in a Word file.



Thanking you in advance...

[Bruce Brakel]

I can read .pdfs at home.  Reading them at work is strange.  Sometimes they open, sometimes they lock up, and sometimes they lock up my whole system.



At work I just have this crappy little laptop, which is all I need for what I do, but which often is not enough for what I'm doing.



I can't read Excel files at home.  I have no idea whether I can read an Excel file at home if it is sneaking around with a .doc extension pretending to be a Word file.



Jon, since you are reading this thread and not the other, do you want to use my small leaderboard cards or make your own.  I'm about to run a batch and if you want to use mine, that's fine.  I'll do twice as many.  I posted a sample as a Word file on the Illinois Open thread.



I'm doing them color coded in yellow, ivory, white, blue and green.  I'm making cards for the ten most popular divisions!

[Bruce Brakel]

I wish those rounds were in the PDGA database.  It might get me an invitation to Am Nationals on rating!

[Bruce Brakel]

There are 19 total advanced amateurs in the great state of Wisconsin.  Shawn is 12th of those 19.  That will be really close on getting an invite on ratings.  



By contrast, there are 40 adv ams in Michigan and I'm 47th.  : (  I don't think I'm making the cut.  Next year's strategy: play all the rated winter golf I can since I shoot over my rating in the winter.  If I can tweak the rating up, then I'll have to take over running the popstand at the sanctioned tournaments!

[damonshort]

jon: sent you a private message w/ some light on this and I'll quit cluttering up the board...

[damonshort]

Jon Brakel (02-11-2003 11:18 p.m.):

...So, Damon's rating is not used. He shot much higher that his rating which had the effect of lowering the rest of the ratings. Not using Damon's rating has then raised all of the ratings a bit. Another rule I found was that any score that is 70 points above or below a player's rating should be thrown out. Since I can't use Damon's rating, I don't have to throw out his score.

I'm used to being underrated, but it's been as a musician, not a golfer....



I would be curious to find out how they got that number though.



Hey Jon, can you email me the number-crunching stuff you got from PDGA? (damonshort@compuserve.com)

[damonshort]

... and oh yeah, is there a listing of WCP ratings for courses somewhere?



e.g., Shawn knew that Channahon was 46, but...how?

[damonshort]

ok, I found - http://www.pdga.com/events.pdf



'zat it?

[damonshort]

...hee, hee.... based on the stuff I've found on the PDGA site, I plugged in the absolute worst round of any sanctioned tournament I've ever played in. And it still came out higher than what my rating is listed as.

[damonshort]

...so is the plan to use the club ratings for spring doubles league? (i.e., rank everyone w/ a club rating then split the list in half for upper/lower?)

[damonshort]

Bruce_Brakel (04-16-2003 02:15 p.m.):

Jon, what was the format for the HPCM?  3 rounds of 12?



If so, the HPCM should count for two events (36 holes instead of 18) when you are calculating averages.

Especially since in effect every round was a different course.

[damonshort]

Jim (04-16-2003 02:57 p.m.):

A course is a hoarse, of horse of coarse.....

but it would be coarse to say that the course made Jon hoarse.



Keep going Jim, only 90-some posts for you to go....;)