Baby steps, I took you off of my ignore list since I feel like your posts have gotten better. I will be less snarky towards you.
But I understand handicap leagues, I just dont like that I can absolutely beat the course and shoot hot and still lose by a lot because of the handicap. Never liked that concept.
I've never cared for it, from the opposite end. If someone shoots 10 strokes better than I do, I can't bring myself to claim I beat him, because of our relative handicaps. It doesn't actually feel like a win. It feels like an advantage you might give a little kid -- a head start in a foot race, for example.
But I come from non-handicapping sports. A portion of disc golfers like handicapped leagues, and I'm all in favor of whatever people enjoy.
Best score (best ball) is far less popular, handicapped or not. We use it in a tournament I run, and I like it, but it hasn't caught on. If people are going to play doubles, they tend to like best shot, where most of their mistakes are erased, and there are more opportunities to gamble on a risky shot.
So mix best score & handicapped, and you've really narrowed down the number of players who might be interested.
I agree. We run one of our leagues with a handicap division. Offering both a raw score season and handicap season. We generally find AM3 players gravitating toward the handicap division and AM1/2 players playing raw score.