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Hi all,
It's been awhile since I've done an analysis on DG Courses so I thought I'd do it again.
I had a brilliant coworker pull all of the DG Course data from this site using Powershell and I did a very quick analysis. Below are some fun insights I found.
Year Established: We all know that the number of courses installed each year is growing, but does Year Established have an impact on course rating? It turns out that courses truly have been getting better! Courses designed in recent years on average have a better rating than courses designed in the early years of disc golf. The best year for DG courses was 2013 and 1989 comes in at #2.
Tee Type: It turns out that not having concrete tees on your course does damage to your course rating. In fact, having concrete tees boosts the course rating by a whole .5 over grass tees! Interestingly, carpet tees boost ratings significantly as well (+.5), but there are only 60 of them.
Hole Type: No major surprises here. DISCatchers make up the biggest chunk of baskets and people don't like home made baskets.
I wanted to keep this first post short, but if there are follow up questions, feel free to post!!
It's been awhile since I've done an analysis on DG Courses so I thought I'd do it again.
I had a brilliant coworker pull all of the DG Course data from this site using Powershell and I did a very quick analysis. Below are some fun insights I found.
Year Established: We all know that the number of courses installed each year is growing, but does Year Established have an impact on course rating? It turns out that courses truly have been getting better! Courses designed in recent years on average have a better rating than courses designed in the early years of disc golf. The best year for DG courses was 2013 and 1989 comes in at #2.
Tee Type: It turns out that not having concrete tees on your course does damage to your course rating. In fact, having concrete tees boosts the course rating by a whole .5 over grass tees! Interestingly, carpet tees boost ratings significantly as well (+.5), but there are only 60 of them.
Hole Type: No major surprises here. DISCatchers make up the biggest chunk of baskets and people don't like home made baskets.
I wanted to keep this first post short, but if there are follow up questions, feel free to post!!