SilentExodus04
Newbie
Wow, thanks for all the great information guys. I really learned a lot from it. I also learned that they don't do a very good job of explaining this on the official pages, so I appreciate you trying to do your best to answer this question that I'm sure comes up often in this forum.
It sounds like a bunch of smoke and mirrors if you ask me, LOL. I hope there is statistical math behind it, probably not worth trying to comprehend, but it feels so arbitrary to me and like anyone could 'change' the stats for any given round just because of a feeling they got, etc, or you know how hard the field played for the day.
It's just really interesting to me that it's not nearly as defined as I thought, and really much more flexible than I ever imagined.
It's cool to just give myself an idea of ok if I average par on most courses that at least means I'd be in the 800-900 range on average. I just love this game and want to learn more about it, so I'm not going to just "let it go" but I'm not going to laser focus on it either. I play to have fun, and I'm pretty competitive so just trying to figure out the next step of the game and I will probably start trying to check out a very low level league this year or perhaps a one off tourney to try to play in.
Really interesting to see all the different viewpoints and how much interest this thread brought though
Also thanks for the link to post 5 rounds and see an 'unofficial' ranking, that might be fun! I'll have to give it a shot and see what it spits out for me sometime just for fun.
It sounds like a bunch of smoke and mirrors if you ask me, LOL. I hope there is statistical math behind it, probably not worth trying to comprehend, but it feels so arbitrary to me and like anyone could 'change' the stats for any given round just because of a feeling they got, etc, or you know how hard the field played for the day.
It's just really interesting to me that it's not nearly as defined as I thought, and really much more flexible than I ever imagined.
It's cool to just give myself an idea of ok if I average par on most courses that at least means I'd be in the 800-900 range on average. I just love this game and want to learn more about it, so I'm not going to just "let it go" but I'm not going to laser focus on it either. I play to have fun, and I'm pretty competitive so just trying to figure out the next step of the game and I will probably start trying to check out a very low level league this year or perhaps a one off tourney to try to play in.
Really interesting to see all the different viewpoints and how much interest this thread brought though
Also thanks for the link to post 5 rounds and see an 'unofficial' ranking, that might be fun! I'll have to give it a shot and see what it spits out for me sometime just for fun.