Homie 10-11-09

[Bruce Brakel]

I really appreciate getting lunch and dinner at the tournament.  If you have a bad round like Diana, or play reasonably well but not good enough like Kira, at least you get the two lunches and a day full of frisbee golf with friends.  

I hope they get scores up promptly like they did with Indiana States.

[Sr.]

Did I hear it was a record for attendance at Homie?  Pretty awesome time with tons of great people.
Thanks to all involved for making this event happen.
Great cause for such good people! Lemon Lake Rocks.

[Chainmeister]

Damon, what time signature was that?

What a great day. I saw lots of friends. I made new friends. I played good courses. I overcame a rough start in both rounds to have a very good day on the course. I got fed. I came home with some new plastic. The best thing about the day? Getting a hug from Homie's mom.

[CEValkyrie]

Very fun day! Although cold the weather at the Homie has been rain free for the past 7 years. Lunch and dinner is a big bonus. For $50 this is the best value event I get every year. I played the Silver course a month ago and saw several new cement tee pads and and briges insalled since that day.. They are doing some good work out there.

The only constructive criticism I have is the lack of information about the courses and tees that will be played. Since the Silver/Gold course was installed there have been serious issues with groups playing the wrong tees. During round 1 there were groups playing provisionals and playing both gold/silver tees on holes. There were several groups that played the wrong tees and got penalized.  There was a major debacle at Indiana States as well.

[kcunning]

It might be beneficial for them to have a quick all players meeting at green building then send everyone to their courses for a players meeting just for those divisions starting on that course.

You can't explain all the courses or answer questions at that meeting.  It might take a little longer to assemble for another meeting at each course, but at least they could go over rules real quick for that course and answer questions relating to that course.

[Bruce Brakel]

I'm trying to be nice and avoid the constructive criticism.  I keep deleting the "But" paragraph! 

The additional benches are nice.  The new paver tee pads are cool.  Having the baskets and tee signs color coded according to the name of the course works.  Choosing simple primary colors works even better. 

Brian Cummings was talking about how they are going to make all the courses longer for Worlds.  It will be interesting to see what the courses become. 

 

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Tom - Thanks for picking out discs for me! Its hard to believe I won anything at all after the last round. The Homie is something I'll definitely do next year. The courses and people were awesome and I was glad just to be a part of it all. It was a great event but unfortunately I let my anger get to me and left after 2nd round.

[Bruce Brakel]

Tom - Thanks for picking out discs for me! Its hard to believe I won anything at all after the last round. The Homie is something I'll definitely do next year. The courses and people were awesome and I was glad just to be a part of it all. It was a great event but unfortunately I let my anger get to me and left after 2nd round.

Diana heard that this year's might have been the last one.

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How sad... Why wouldn't they? Is it getting too big? That sucks! I guess we'll have to wait and see...

[Bruce Brakel]

The sponsors are thinking about or planning on moving somewhere distant. 

[OvEr HaNd AsSaSiN]

Pretty sure the fall tourney will always happen.. maybe without all the bells and whistles..

[can't putt]

Scores are up.

Great event.  $30 am fee  plus $4 park fee gets you a t-shirt, two meals, all the bananas and apples you care to eat strategically located on the course, good courses, nice facilities.  Brian handled the crowd well.  Bruce, it was a pleasure sharing your card for two rounds.

[pickax]

Scores are up, but ratings are wrong. They haven't put the course info in.

[Bruce Brakel]

Well, ratings are correct for the *average* player!    

For the first round, unofficial ratings would be about 30 or 40 points low for the Gold-Silver pool, about 40 points high for the White pool and close on the average for the Red and Blue pools.  The second round would be similarly skewed, low for Gold-Silvers and high for whites. 

[WkeBrd3]

Scores are up, but ratings are wrong. They haven't put the course info in.

What?!?! You mean I DIDN'T shoot a 1063 rated round? Damn....

[Bruce Brakel]

Actually, white is looking more skewed than 30 or 40 points, especially the second round.  It is possible that the rounds on White will never get official ratings because the course is so easy. 

[Chainmeister]

Actually, white is looking more skewed than 30 or 40 points, especially the second round.  It is possible that the rounds on White will never get official ratings because the course is so easy. 

I don't see why the easiness of the course would matter in that regard.  The compression will be high, maybe 13 or more points/stroke. I do not think the course is much easier than Parkside from the shorts or Lippold. Right now the ratings for white are so  high that its hard to forecast what the ratings really are. The pro ratings look awfully low.  The red course (2nd round Rec and Intermediate) looks pretty accurate. I see they have Diana's PDGA number wrong and have her rated 926. That should have had a somewhat depressive effect on the white ratings but apparently, did not.

[pickax]

Since they didn't enter course info. The ratings were calculated as if all divisions played the same course for each round. The unofficial ratings are worthless until that is straightened out (or I just run the numbers myself).

[Bruce Brakel]

Dave, the PDGA ratings system has a minimum course SSA requirement for generating ratings.  Chuck mentioned this before on pdga.com about the White course after Indiana States.  I think it is 42, the answer to life, the universe and everything.  There's a good reason for it, but it is mathematical and hard to explain or understand.  When courses get easier than that, a certain 850ish rated junior girl could whup her 935ish Am Master dad with her short driving accuracy, and that is true throughout the field.  She used to love those courses!  Ratings cease to be meaningful at that point.  They picked 42 and White can go under or over.  With only rec and novice players in the morning field, it might make it over 42. 

Mike, if you ran ratings, what did you get for the White SSAs? 

[Jon Brakel]

If the person or persons who upload the scores for the Homie read this forum but don't know how to get the right people onto the right courses and would like some over the phone help, please feel free to call me. Even if you don't know me. 224-five 6 seven-3 three 9 three.