Getting an SSA rating for your course

[themontage]

I was trying to find any information about how to get a ssa rating for a course to determine the level of your course and how to compare that to the scores that you shoot on it. Does anyone know how this process is determined and how to get it approved (with the PDGA)?

I know that when I have played in tournaments that there is the SSA rating that shows what the base is for the difficulty of the course and that determines your round rating. I just want to know so I can get my home courses rated.

[gvan]

It's determined by sanctioned tournament rounds at your course. The SSA is the average a 1000 rated player would shoot. That's determined by having propagators (rated players with 8 rated tourney rounds) play tournament rounds there. It's a circular process. The players rounds determines the SSA which gives players a round rating which helps determine their rating which helps determine SSAs...

Imperfect, but it works for the most part.

[skurf]

Isn't there a generic formula you can use for courses that don't have an official SSA? Total distance of course divided by 285 plus 30? I have no idea how accurate this is, but I heard it on the interwebs so it must be true!

[Fore]

Things like the weather will change the SSA as well.

[DSmith]

Isn't there a generic formula you can use for courses that don't have an official SSA? Total distance of course divided by 285 plus 30? I have no idea how accurate this is, but I heard it on the interwebs so it must be true!


haha thats the worst thing I've heard relating to SSA!


To be serious you can determine it using average scores of a 900 rated player, doesn't have to be in a sanctioned tournament, also which for alot of areas is easier to obtain than a 1000 rated player. You can do this in league play. I think Chuck Kennedy has a spreadsheet for this.
Of course to be official in the PDGA's eyes you need to do it according to the 1000/sanctioned formula.

[themontage]

Thanks for the info! Does anyone know how that works when running a tournament(how to get pdga to recognize that, because I have played in one sanctioned tourney and I never received any ratings from it, just points.)

[bikinjack]

I started this thread a while back, and Chuck answered my questions.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9140&highlight=ssa

[DSmith]

I started this thread a while back, and Chuck answered my questions.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9140&highlight=ssa

I stand corrected, the innerwebs don't lie.