Allurex
* Ace Member *
Here in KC, Dynamic Discs runs a ton of events (B-Tiers) and this year they decided to run them on 2 days instead of one. So the Pro Men, Pro Women, Masters, and Advanced players play on Saturday, and the lower AM Divisions, Grandmasters, and Women AMs play on another day, for example.
They've had great success with it, allowing for more than 72/90 players to sign up, and the course isn't nearly as congested.
I noticed on the most recent ratings update that the PDGA went ahead and combined the ratings for the 2 days, even though they were separate PDGA events, technically. Note how the SMP Frostbreaker was listed-
Frostbreaker Day 1 (MA2, MA3, MG1, FA2) - Link
Frostbreaker Day 2 (MPO, MPM, MPG, FPO, MA1, FA1, MM1) - Link
So the ratings were combined together for the 2 days (for example, a 60 was rated 927 for both days). Same course set-up, same tees and all of that.
The only problem was that it snowed 2 inches during the Sunday edition of the tournament, so the conditions were not nearly the same on both days.
When the ratings were unofficial, the ratings for Sunday were about 25 points higher than similar scores on Saturday. Many players, myself included, figured this was 100% correct, because of how much harder the conditions were on Sunday. Shooting a 60 was much easier on Saturday because of the better weather. So why combine the ratings?
They've done this for other events, but I think the average event doesn't have such drastically different weather conditions from 1 day to the next. When I asked the TD about this, he said that he just submitted the reports and the PDGA combined the ratings themselves, and that he didn't really see anything to be done about it.
Are ratings supposed to be combined like this? I feel like different pools playing events on the same courses shouldn't have combined ratings if the conditions are so drastically different.
If this was done in error, is there someone in the PDGA that I can contact? Is there a way to get it fixed?
They've had great success with it, allowing for more than 72/90 players to sign up, and the course isn't nearly as congested.
I noticed on the most recent ratings update that the PDGA went ahead and combined the ratings for the 2 days, even though they were separate PDGA events, technically. Note how the SMP Frostbreaker was listed-
Frostbreaker Day 1 (MA2, MA3, MG1, FA2) - Link
Frostbreaker Day 2 (MPO, MPM, MPG, FPO, MA1, FA1, MM1) - Link
So the ratings were combined together for the 2 days (for example, a 60 was rated 927 for both days). Same course set-up, same tees and all of that.
The only problem was that it snowed 2 inches during the Sunday edition of the tournament, so the conditions were not nearly the same on both days.
When the ratings were unofficial, the ratings for Sunday were about 25 points higher than similar scores on Saturday. Many players, myself included, figured this was 100% correct, because of how much harder the conditions were on Sunday. Shooting a 60 was much easier on Saturday because of the better weather. So why combine the ratings?
They've done this for other events, but I think the average event doesn't have such drastically different weather conditions from 1 day to the next. When I asked the TD about this, he said that he just submitted the reports and the PDGA combined the ratings themselves, and that he didn't really see anything to be done about it.
Are ratings supposed to be combined like this? I feel like different pools playing events on the same courses shouldn't have combined ratings if the conditions are so drastically different.
If this was done in error, is there someone in the PDGA that I can contact? Is there a way to get it fixed?