Alaska PDGA Winter Series #14

Top of this post, and I'll reiterate all week: cutoff for registration for weeks 5-7 is going to be Friday night - I'll be running the league remotely, so get your stuff in early. I *may* be able to g ... show more ›

Top of this post, and I'll reiterate all week: cutoff for registration for weeks 5-7 is going to be Friday night - I'll be running the league remotely, so get your stuff in early. I may be able to get you in after the deadline but no guarantees. If you need to pay with cash, find someone at the league who has my Venmo and give them the cash so they can pay me. If you know someone in this league who doesn't read these updates, please spread this around!

Smaller turnout this week, but still solid! No aces, and because I like to keep track even when there wouldn't be a payout, no one hit the Bounty.

Robinson Culver picked up first place in A Pool this week with a 53 - he had his share of 4s but also grabbed a ton of birdies to keep it under ironman par. Shout to Jake Haskin for his league debut, and shooting only the second round in the 40s at Davis for either this league or the last one. (Joe Schact and myself both shot rounds in the 40s in the Ace Pool week but that was unrated.)

Tyler Pohler grabbed B pool with the lowest handicapped score of the whole league, continuing his rapid improvement as a disc golfer.

This week the proper "points per stroke" to keep everything fair would have been 14.2, which is huge - this means that lower-rated players had an advantage this week, because we used 12 points per stroke. However, because of the split between A Pool and B Pool, only a couple of place-finishes were impacted. We might move to 13 points per stroke at Davis, but based on 8 rounds worth of data now, it's still right around 12.5 overall...this week was a bit of a fluke, likely.

I'll be updating handicaps this week shortly - I think in future leagues, we might use ratings at first, but then after like 4 leagues played we might use just the league data. The reason I'm thinking this is that, for example, my rating is based on a variety of courses, but on shorter technical courses like Davis and Westchester, I have a bit of an advantage, so it might make sense to lower my handicap. We'll still go based off of PDGA ratings for this league, but just a thought for the future.