Ratings Updates

[Dan Michler]

Am I the only one that thinks these ratings updates need to be handled better?  I respect the fact that people are volunteering their time to do this and I accept that for now we aren't going to have automatic continuous updates (we should).  But, when it is stated when the update should be coming to hundreds of eagerly waiting dues paying individuals, it should be handled a little more professionally than to constantly be behind schedule.  I'd be embarrassed to continuously deceive so many people as to when the update will happen.  If your not sure when you can get it out, then say so!!!  This will keep me from checking the site every half hour for days on end.  Not that I'm concerned with my own rating this time around, but I like to look at alot of other people's ratings because for some reason I find that entertaining.    

[CEValkyrie]

They are late but they just uploaded them.  

[kyle]

I'm sure there are plenty of disc golfers out there that would be willing to help do  the coding to allow TDs to enter the info through forms online and have it all calculated right into player ratings.

[kyle]

I went up 9 points, better than going down like I did last time.

Brett, out of curiosity why is only the first round of the Blast rated? Same players, etc so it seems odd that only one round would get a rating.

[D]

Weeeeeak

Best round - 1003
Worst round - 813

Nearly 20 strokes difference, just call me Mr. Consistant

Congrats Brett for hitting 955

[CEValkyrie]

I went up 9 points, better than going down like I did last time.

Brett, out of curiosity why is only the first round of the Blast rated? Same players, etc so it seems odd that only one round would get a rating.

I have no idea why 1 would get rated & not the other. I'll e-mail the PDGA.

[mirth]

Here I was thinking my rating would go up this time & not down....

[SERG]

Broke the 900 mark...908

Look out Advanced Amatuer division....I'm coming at'cha!

[Dan Michler]

only 24 rating points to make up next year.  not a problem.

[CEValkyrie]

Dan updated the club members page with ratings. Make sure to refresh that page. Thanks Dan!

[Bruce Brakel]

I went up 9 points, better than going down like I did last time.

Brett, out of curiosity why is only the first round of the Blast rated? Same players, etc so it seems odd that only one round would get a rating.

It looks like we were really close on the number of gators needed for ratings at the Saturday Blast.  In the second round a couple of our gators look like they degatorized themselves by shooting 50 points below their rating.  

[Dan Michler]

I went up 9 points, better than going down like I did last time.

Brett, out of curiosity why is only the first round of the Blast rated? Same players, etc so it seems odd that only one round would get a rating.

It looks like we were really close on the number of gators needed for ratings at the Saturday Blast.  In the second round a couple of our gators look like they degatorized themselves by shooting 50 points below their rating.

Degatorization is a big problem.  I've degatorized myself more than once.  Carrol Marty comes to mind.  Next year if I have a tough round capitalized by like a 4 putt, I will just yell 'degatorization complete'.  Call me the Degatorizer.

[Bruce Brakel]

You might be the Autodegatorization Master.  You've done it twice since Pro Worlds, at Chanahon and Fairfield.  Maybe I should check my own stats before I go here...

[DougEDawg]

So, why didn't the PDGA rate either round of the Intermediates at the Prairie Open this year?  There were 16 people with 800+ ratings.  Don't tell me seven of them shot 50 points off their rating??  Maybe in one round, but both rounds?

[Bruce Brakel]

So, why didn't the PDGA rate either round of the Intermediates at the Prairie Open this year?  There were 16 people with 800+ ratings.  Don't tell me seven of them shot 50 points off their rating??  Maybe in one round, but both rounds?

A lot of those guys were not gators at the time because they did not have eight rated rounds.  I did not go through every name but I checked about seven and only three might have been gators.  

The QMCS [Question Mark Conservation Society] has been alerted to your post by the way.  They don't like it when three questions are punctuated with ten question marks.  

[DougEDawg]

So, the gator criteria is as follows:

1. Must have 8 rated rounds before the beginning of the tournament.
2. Must have an 800+ rating before the beginning of the tournament.
3. Must have scored within 50 points on either side of your rating at the time of
   the tournament.

Ratings criteria is as follows:
1. Must have at least 10 gatorized players for the PDGA to officially rate those
   players.

[Bruce Brakel]

I think that is correct.  

[DougEDawg]

Why is it called "Gator"?  Short for something?

[Brian]

Does the PDGA update everyone by "hand"?  If so there has to be a better way.  Like I was saying, get some grad. student to write a computer program to do it for the pdga, and they randomly check players to make sure that it didn't mess up.   If it only takes 1,200 or 1,600 to check the whole US population than it should take less for the PDGA.

[mirth]

Why is it called "Gator"?  Short for something?

propagator

edit: where's the damn spell chek around here?