Recent content by Steve West

Imported from another thread: Cgkdisc said: "Your way is ineffective for designing holes in advance or correcting them when the data shows the design for scoring needs tweaking. Has nothing to do with our "official" par definition that we and all of the posters suffering through thousands of...

That's not how birdie is defined. Birdie is one less than par. Par is the score that an expert disc golfer would be expected to make on a given hole with errorless play under ordinary weather conditions. That's the official definition according to the governing body of the sport. Trying to...

One, for can be done. But, the criteria for par is that a score can be expected with errorless play. For par 4, the PDGA Guidelines say if 1000-rated players are getting 35% or more 4s or better, then that's really good evidence that a score of 4 can be expected with errorless play - par 4...

Nice analysis. Perhaps the error is trying to combine those two 225 foot throws.

The 1050-foot hole #12 is a par 5 because that's what the TD set. It has usually scored like a par 6 according to the methods Par by Average Score (of the 1000-rated expert), and Par by Scoring Distribution. However, it is not clear why it should be scoring as a par 6. It would seem a smart...

At 2022 Worlds, Aaron had a 3 throw lead going into the last round, and Paul was still favored to win it.

Haven't done one of these in a while.

The basket is still standing, the trees are not. I'd say the basket won.

It's funny how a 45 minute drive seems not too bad if it's all within a metro area, but a huge long way if it is through flat open country. (Of course, a 45 minute drive would be 72 miles - the way I drove when I lived in Kansas.)

No, it wouldn't be cool. I've done that, and there is no evidence whatsoever that any players do better on certain courses vs. other courses. Rather than cool, it would be sad to destroy the mythology everyone cherishes so much. It would take away one more thing that lets us pretend that our...

I thought the Speedo was a dig at the sentence: "No ripped shirts, shorts, or pants are allowed on the course." Which could be read as disallowing any shorts or pants.

geebob's point was that his outfit would meet the dress code.

So 2.25 or 3 points. The way registration stands now you'd probably be put on a card with FA40 anyway.

You get points for every player you beat or tie. More points for higher tiers and higher skilled divisions. For MN Ams (an A-tier) you'll get at least 4 points for coming in last in FA40. More if you beat or tie anyone. You'll only get 3 points for entering FA55 by yourself.

When compared to standardized par, Anthony Barela's 16 under was equivalent to Paul McBeth's 18 under at Toboggan. Both would have been 15 under with standardized par.