LeBryson James
Double Eagle Member
Down 4 to 952.
Still top 10 AM in GA.
Still top 10 AM in GA.
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PDGA ratings are up. How'd you do?
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DiscNutt123
Double Eagle Member
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929 to 924
barely played in the past month due to rain/work, two sub-900 rounds from CAC were added as well
... can still bag it up in INT if I want to
Playing your rating isn't bagging. I can't stand when people give people crap for this.
gcanter2376
Eagle Member
Went from a 908 to a 905 but i got a feeling i will drop again at the next update. Played a tournament and starting goofingaround and doing silly stuff like taking aggressive lines and such. Shot a 750 rated round lol. Now i feel like an idiot cause its going to kill my rating lol.
That round won't count in your rating. If you're enough standard deviations away, it won't be used.
krupicka
Double Eagle Member
At over 100 below his rating, it doesn't matter what his SD is. It will be dropped.
Yeah, that too
NOStheBOSS
Double Eagle Member
but it will increase his sd which may include rounds that previously weren't counted
krupicka
Double Eagle Member
A player's worst round is not used in calculating his SD.
Dana
Double Eagle Member
Coming off my worst week of golf this year (Worlds), my rating went up 4.
Deebo4Discs
Par Member
Serious question here, not a pDGA member and don't have a rating so I have no cares either way.
If there is no good reason to move up, what are the good reasons not to if you are playing in that division?
I never can see myself winning in Charlotte because of you. That might not be a good reason, but it's a reason. I'm a 946 rated player who's never won a pdga, and I can't envision doing it here in Charlotte. Many players have risen like you, but they move up, or drop off. You've been up there in MA1 for years.
I'd have to raise my game 4 strokes a round, while you play at your rating during an entire tournament. That's 16 strokes a tournament and luck that you don't play well. I'm not the greatest player, but it would be nice to see guys move up. I only play once or twice a week, but I don't see a problem with playing "pro" to get better.
Will Burke
Par Member
The good reasons not to move up is that you can play a mediocre round and still be right at the top if not winning. Not a bad thing just playing the system.
jeverett
Double Eagle Member
Really, though, how would this be any different of a scenario if you were playing Open in a city where one of the world's top pros lived (and played local events)? It doesn't really matter how you care to group players, there's always going to be skill discrepancies. One-course disc golf tourneys simply aren't large enough (or attract enough players) to make division groupings small enough to effectively cancel out the skill discrepancies (i.e. give everyone in the division a near-equal shot at winning it).. you'd need division groupings of somewhere on the order of 20-30 rating points. e.g. 1000-970, 970-940, 940-910, 910-880, 880-850..
It's a good point, but the main difference being that Open is just that. Nowhere to go from there. I know that I just need to get better to beat him, but by the time I do that, I'm in Open, having never gotten a title in Advance. Meanwhile, I get better in Open and finally have the ability to win a MA1 title, but it's too late.
The other scenario is that I play and get better, move to Open and not except cash, then move backwards to try to win an Advance title. That's pretty weak. By staying as a top rated player in a division, I argue that you hinder the growth of the players rated below you.
haha, the legend of Mike continues!
There are only two players in the PDGA that are rated 1024 and neither of them was previously rated 905.
http://www.pdga.com/player-ratings-search?offset=10&division=MPO&state=&country=
Scratch that. I see now that it is an AM.
http://www.pdga.com/player-ratings-search?offset=0&division=M1O&state=&country=
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FWIW, advanced isn't below open, it's parallel. They're both open divisions, advanced is open to any player eligible for amateur competition with no ratings cap.
There en-lies the problem. Open divisions are usually closely rated players (depends on the region to the ratings). Adv divisions are people that range from 935 to 1000. It's not truly "open" as it's not open to specific players that have cashed. The 970 and below clause was put in place to avoid MA1 players bagging, but here in Charlotte, with the talent level high in the Am pool, that rating would need to be higher to be effective.
An interesting statistic I saw is the Brian Schweberger's rating of 1024 is based off of 127 rated rounds. I didn't see anyone else even close to that. That is an amazing amount of official rounds especially considering it doesn't look like any of them are "league rounds".
I figured there would be AM with more but I can't find one. Anyone else have more rated rounds in their rating?
I figured there would be AM with more but I can't find one. Anyone else have more rated rounds in their rating?
