Alaska PDGA Winter Series #14

Thanks to the 27 folks who came out last week despite some extremely chilly temps to start the round! We had a lot of new folks, so it's exciting to get some new blood in the competitive disc golf com ... show more ›

Thanks to the 27 folks who came out last week despite some extremely chilly temps to start the round! We had a lot of new folks, so it's exciting to get some new blood in the competitive disc golf community! Ratings were reversed from last week - the higher rated players had a slight edge with the 12 ratings point per stroke handicap. Overall between this week and last league, though, 12 is the correct number.

Jeremy Boyd took down A Pool with a 56, managing to shoot 28 on both the front and the back 9! I'll have to do the math on the average scores but off the top of my head, I'm about 5 strokes worse on the back than on the front. Shout out to James Beckner who got the overall lowest score with a 50, and also managed to pick up a deuce on hole 5 Blue. Still no one has hit the "Davis Bounty" (which is empty currently) but Beckner has now come the closest by getting a total of 12 strokes on 3, 5, 6, and 9 Blue.

Julia Musser took down a 17-person B Pool with a 66 raw score and a best-of-the-week 51. She shot a really solid 28 on the front 9, and kept the back 9 under control. Check the spreadsheet here for the math, and feel free to ask questions in the comments about how any of it works: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15pb-zq2YRzagnoxVrDYeEzhwZrB9-8gaBBGxxq8GyIE/edit#gid=0

A few notes: Let's continue to enforce PDGA rules in these rounds - if you're new to competitive disc golf, I encourage you to read the PDGA rules, especially focusing on how to mark a lie, and what a foot fault is: https://www.pdga.com/rules/official-rules-disc-golf/80205. I don't want anyone to be a dick, but do give gentle correction if you see someone doing something the wrong way.

I'll be updating some of the handicaps this week - even if you're a propagator, if you don't have a ton of rated rounds, I may just give you the average of your League #13 rounds and the first two rounds of this league if they are significantly different.

I'll also be possibly updating the Davis Park handicap this week - it may stay at 12 ratings points per stroke, but Week 1 suggested maybe 13 is appropriate. If you want to see some of the math behind the handicaps, check the Google Sheet I posted above - and I'm happy to take you through any of the math. Basically I change the handicap until the trendline drawn through all of the scores has a slope as close to zero as possible. When it's flat, that means that nobody has an advantage over anyone else. We're all happy little Harrison Bergerons.