"All I'm saying is that you can't make the comparison with ratings to courses with such different SSAs."
Ok I guess, but you absolutely should be able to. Comparing different data sets is one of the basic tasks the field of statistics routinely completes.
But of course, don't want to go down this rabbit hole, and at the end of the day it isn't a huge deal if the RR isn't quite accurate. :thmbup:
Says who? The system wasn't designed that way. That's like saying caloric intake is huge in weight loss as is grams of carbohydrates, so there should be a way to compare 25 carb grams to 200 calories. You can't. Those are as different as apples and oranges.
yeah, we should be able to, and the way the current rating system is setup, that won't happen. With that said, I think everyone can agree that Klein's round yesterday is one of a kind.
Again, says who? The disc golf ratings system is absolutely perfect mathematically for what it was designed to do. Everyone who complains about it wants the system to do something it was NEVER designed to do. If you want a system to do the things you want, get with your local statistician/mathematician system creator and design the heck out of your system.
I'm really surprised that's the case. Imagine it's worlds, Paul is up by one going into the final round, then Ricky leads by 5 strokes after 16 holes and they stop due to weather and Paul wins. That would be a laughingstock forever. They seriously need to look at that for next season and beyond.
Minimum 13 holes to produce a rated round.
https://www.pdga.com/faq#t133n203556
If play is suspended the round scores will be determined by the most completed holes by the entire field. In the scenario McCready described, likely McBeth and Wysocki are both on one of the top cards and each would have finished 16 holes. If it was less than 13 holes, then the round wouldn't be official and revert to the leading scores from the prior round completion.
Yes. It's 9 holes (played by all players) to make an official round, 13 to make it a rated round. But remember that in your McBeth/Wysocki example above, only the holes completed by all players would count. Even yesterday, if the rule for counting the round was "any number holes," only the first three holes would count, so Kyle Klein was still trailing Ricky Wysocki.
It's OK as long as we stay ahead of Professional Hurling.
Did you mean "hurling" (the team sport) or "curling" (the duo/trio sport) or hurdling (the individual sport)?
Just curious.
FWIW, the gold medal in mens high jump at the Tokyo Olympics right now was decided by a tie. Rules say if the top participants have the same results throughout the finals, if they both agree they can both take home the gold. If one says no, they go into a jump off. Can you imagine risking gold just because you dont want the other guy to have his share?
Ps. What does a split prize look like? They carve it up right down the middle? "Give me half the bear, Cale!"
For most split prizes or co-champions (that I've been aware of), we allow the victors to each take photos with the trophy, then one takes it with them (usually via coin flip unless somebody says "you take it"), and the TD orders another trophy and later sends it out so each will have their own.
Once the DGPT has tour cards (it is coming), they could ask everyone who is tied for the lead to stick around until the next morning for a playoff. I'm not saying it would be fair, but part of the requirement of having a tour card might be to stick around the next day if the DGPT makes that call. Yesterday, it certainly didn't make logistical sense, but I can see them having a playoff the morning after a tourney was supposed to end to resolve any ties. It wouldn't be as much of a logistical nightmare as having every card finish a round. You'd still need some volunteers, but with the DGPT's employees, there could be enough.
With that said, I didn't see how it was going to happen yesterday. With idlewild in 4 days, that's a lot of time to wait in order to pack stuff up and transport it, employees that might have had days off now don't (or there's one less day to setup for Idlewild), etc. They'd need to have something built in so everyone knows what to do and it's simply a pivot to an extra day of golf rather than establishing a whole new plan.
Question -- and then (as part of the tour card) would you require the DGPT to be responsible for paying for each competitor's extra day of lodging, extra day of meals, rescheduled travel cost and arrangements, and reimburse their possible lost earnings due to having to stay an extra unplanned day??? If not, then who pays/is responsible?
Because if I'm playing and if the cost of having to change my flight last minute, spend an extra night in Illinois, lose/change my ride to & from the course tomorrow morning, cancel the planned money-making clinic or OTB Skins I had scheduled, etc., etc. gets up to somewhere around $2000-$3000, I'm smarter to cut my losses and say "to heck with this! I'm done." The difference in payout between 1st & 2nd being just at about $4,000 makes a couple three thousand dollars in cost very prohibitive for the player. to stay an extra day. Maybe you're thinking of a day with the bright ESPN lights and huge corporate sponsors where this event is paying them A couple
hundred thousand dollars. That would be way different imho.
We've got disc watching FANS complaining about they way it went down because they "paid" for the coverage (never mind that Sunday's was free), yet these same people would be losing their minds if DGN subscription went up to the same cost as a Netflix or Hulu or Disney+.
