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Date: 17 Sep 2006 17:19:55
From: warren montgomery
Subject: When the USGA handicap system asks if you really mean it.
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That's always painful -- having to respond yes, I really sucked that bad.
It's clear I don't understand the algorithm though. Yesterday I had to put
in an 85, over my norm with an 8.8 index, but not a real blowup round (I've
shot plenty in the 90s) But I was surprised when the thing told me it was
out of my normal range. I always thought it was simple statistics and I
wouldn't have though 85 was high enough to be suspect, but I now wonder
whether it actually looks at the variance of my scores Most are tightly
clumped around 80 (thank you ESC for not making me count those big numbers
on 3 and 6)
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Warren Montgomery (wamontgomery@att.net)
http://home.att.net/~wamontgomery
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Date: 18 Sep 2006 04:45:06
From: Larry Bud
Subject: Re: When the USGA handicap system asks if you really mean it.
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warren montgomery wrote:
> That's always painful -- having to respond yes, I really sucked that bad.
> It's clear I don't understand the algorithm though. Yesterday I had to put
> in an 85, over my norm with an 8.8 index, but not a real blowup round (I've
> shot plenty in the 90s) But I was surprised when the thing told me it was
> out of my normal range. I always thought it was simple statistics and I
> wouldn't have though 85 was high enough to be suspect, but I now wonder
> whether it actually looks at the variance of my scores Most are tightly
> clumped around 80 (thank you ESC for not making me count those big numbers
> on 3 and 6)
What's the differential? an 85 could be a 20 differential or a 10.
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Date: 17 Sep 2006 18:01:47
From: Birdie Bill
Subject: Re: When the USGA handicap system asks if you really mean it.
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warren montgomery wrote:
> That's always painful -- having to respond yes, I really sucked that bad.
> It's clear I don't understand the algorithm though. Yesterday I had to put
> in an 85, over my norm with an 8.8 index, but not a real blowup round (I've
> shot plenty in the 90s) But I was surprised when the thing told me it was
> out of my normal range. I always thought it was simple statistics and I
> wouldn't have though 85 was high enough to be suspect, but I now wonder
> whether it actually looks at the variance of my scores Most are tightly
> clumped around 80 (thank you ESC for not making me count those big numbers
> on 3 and 6)
That IS surprising. Are you sure you didn't enter it as a 9 hole
score,
or something? I would think that 85 is well within the range of scores
that an 8.8 would shoot.
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