PDGA ratings are up. How'd you do?

[VictorB]

+13 and finally making some progress on returning to playing better and more consistently. By this time next year all of my sub 900 rounds will have fallen off from 2017 and early this season. Just have to keep plugging along.

 

[Designjah]

No change - stayed at 942. Amazing how just one bad round can stifle the slow climb up in ratings...

 

[Nova P]

I turned Pro this year, and this month I rated myself out of playing any of the amateur divisions for women.

Definitely a weird feeling knowing many of my familiar haunts are no longer available, but awesome at the same time as it indicates progress.

Good. I need a caddie at the MAC.

 

[armiller]

Question: why would I be worried about PDGA "points?"

 

[jjtwinnova]

Question: why would I be worried about PDGA "points?"

The number of points you have determines whether you qualify for Amateur Worlds or not, and the number needed varies by state.

 

[brutalbrutus]

Question: why would I be worried about PDGA "points?"

To qualify for Worlds...




...well unless you are a 735 rated "pro" and world's doesn't fill up, so you don't need points.

 

[armiller]

Thanks. Can't say I'm interested in Worlds, but I guess it'd be fun if it was possible. And moving to West Virginia may have made it more likely! (Personally, I'm no pro, but my only tournament is an MPO that didn't fill... not worlds, fortunately, and I didn't even finish last!)

Is it career points or points in a season?

 

[brutalbrutus]

Season.

 

[JC17393]

The number of points you have determines whether you qualify for Amateur Worlds or not, and the number needed varies by state.

The bolded isn't necessarily true. There is a minimum number regardless of where you reside that will automatically qualify you. Where you reside is only taken into account if too few players in your state (less than 10%) reached the minimum threshold for a given division. In such a case, they take the top 10% of points earners in that state.

Should also be noted that this is the case for Pro Masters Worlds as well as Amateur Worlds. It is only Pro Open Worlds where points aren't needed.

 

[sisyphus]

Gotta love statistics!
Jumped 15 points to my highest rating yet. Playing less sanctioned events this summer, seven old rounds dropped off, so my standard deviation tightened up and a really poor round wound up getting tossed out as a result.

 

[NathanNoodleArm]

Well looks like my blow up round from my last tourney was actually so bad it isn't being used. So I only dropped one point to 921.

 

[roggenb3]

Highest yet - 944 (up 7)

Started this season kind of shaky, but have had by far my most consistent stretch of late.

Only 2 of my last 12 rounds are under 940 (925, 934), but also only 2 are above 960 (984, 976). Everything else is 950 +/- 10. 2 more rounds of exactly 950 are the only ones not counted yet.

Only 1 event left this year. If I can play really well there, I think I have a shot at ending the year 950+, which was my goal.

 

[Putt for D'oh]

Ratings are funny. I've finally played enough recent rounds that my blow-up at my last tournament wasn't used and BOTH rounds from my first ever tournament have been dropped.
So despite playing really poorly my most recent tournament my rating went up 4 points.

923 and I still feel like 935 is where I should be and ability for much higher if I can improve from horrible putting.

 

[DavidSauls]

Set a personal record. I knew if I kept playing like this, I could do it.

(Sadly, it's a new low.)

 

[VictorB]

No movement this update.

At least I can look forward to 3 sub 900 rounds falling off in the next one.

 

[chosenmatrix]

Dropped 5 back down to 943.... I kinda expected that, but it is still a bummer. I am playing much more consistent, but I had three rounds drop off from last year. 2 of them were fantastic rounds, and the third was my last terrible round that was not counting anyway.

 

[joshmo65]

Can anyone beat me for most rounds in which 100% of your rounds are used on your rating? I currently have 102 rounds over the last year and am not dropping a single round. Round ratings vary between 899 and 1050 with a rating of 968.

Thought I was shooting consistent enough recently to drop my standard deviation down to finally drop that 899. Guess not. :thmbdown:

 

[brentjacobs]

Up 7 to a personal best 956 and got my first 1000+ rated round with a 1008. Nice way to end the season.

 

[tbonesocrul]

happy to move up from 846 to 851. first time above 850. Now I just need to wait for my first rounds to fall off.

 

[armiller]

I dropped 7. My last rating was based on 3 rounds, this is based on 6, and my next will be based on 8.

Of those 8 rounds, the difference between best and worst round is 71 points. Standard deviation is 23. None are far enough below that they would get dropped. Could I drop a rating 2.5 SDs above my rating?

The rating side is kinda interesting to get into, and I'm still figuring it out. But the most painful thing is looking back on tournaments and remembering a few poor decisions, missed 10 foot putts, and bad breaks that prevented most rounds from being better. That card mate that opened an umbrella right before I threw a drive straight into a tree that kicked way off fairway, that drive that crossed OB and bounced back to put me at the drop zone, those poor decisions or poorly executed shots... That said, my rating should always be higher than it is. I try not to remember all the luck breaks I've had.