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It doesn't fix the main problem with handicap leagues (the most consistent players don't win much). Instead, it's basically just a pure give-away to the players with lowest averages (granted, these are the people who complain most about not winning in handicap leagues).

I've always argued that multiplying by 80% does not work better. ;)

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Sadly, the operation "take average of the last five non-empty cells" is VERY hard to do in straight Excel. I spent a long time trying to find a straight forward way to do it but could only come up with convoluted solutions that look really ugly and are hard to modify. It should not be...

I am not really sold on the "percent difference from average" rating method since it doesn't really capture the spread of the scores. I reworked your worksheet using z-scores instead: zscore Rating sheet. Using raw z-scores a rating of of +2.0 means that you crushed everyone, and a -2.0...

Trail Gloves are my primary disc golfing shoe too. Super comfortable and grippy. I just wish they made a waterproof version.

Here is a list of a lot of the weeklies in SoCal: http://socaldiscgolfclub.wordpress.com/courses/monthly-tournament-info/ but none of those are really near you. However, the traffic is usually pretty good going west in the afternoon. :)

Kudos to davetherocketguy for actually uploading a spreadsheet. :) Have you tried this system in an actual league? I am all for trying to things other than the simple "strokes off your average" handicapping but I am never sure how open players will be to it. But... I am not sure that I...

The very best way to mark a mando is with a large net or section of tall chain link fence. ;) More seriously, in addition to an arrow on the tree or post, it is really nice if you can mark the "perpendicular mando line" somehow (as per http://www.pdga.com/mandatories ) so that it is easy to...

I used to live in SW Ontario and most of my disc business went to Marshall Street. sub-$100 orders generally avoid customs fees, and shipping was always pretty reasonable and always quite fast. The Canadian company with the best selection online might be http://www.fullflightdiscgolf.com/ - I...

I agree hyzer is the angle whenever, not just at release. Of course, I have an acute feeling that all this talk of angles is just obtuse. Right?

I had really negative feelings about the name of the new disc, but Steve's video has convince me not to hate on it. I might even buy one. His lo-fi video blog is the best. Also, it's too bad the unLace wasn't project #420 because then they could have said that it was good for rolling.

I don't know if you intend this, but I think that this system to going to really punish players with higher averages. If your averages are based on enough (4+) rounds, then the chances that a player with a +13 average shoots +8 or better are generally going to be much lower than the chances...

Dropping players' worst round before taking the average can help with that too.

When Axiom has a bigger line up or if Innova releases more overmolds, you could code for stability by rim colour and speed by flight plate colour (or vice-versa).

The DGCR SSE for courses is a decent proxy for a PDGA SSA (for these purposes). It doesn't matter too much if it is a couple strokes off. In your case, since you are capping handicaps at -6, you could use 47 or 48 as your SSE. Of course, in your case, I think the cap and the rounding do all...

Verbose thoughts on Handicap Any handicapping system, as long as it is applied consistently, can work fine for a weekly league I think. Most often, the handicap systems leagues use are chosen to be easy to explain to players rather than soundly designed to achieve the goal: "The player who...

Of course I built my project before I knew about the handicapping at DGU. The $0.25 per score doesn't really seem like a large overhead for running a league, but I suspect there are lot of people doing DIY who might otherwise use it. I wonder if a flat rate per week would make people more...

A spreadsheet to track handicaps for a weekly league is one of those wheels that we all keep reinventing. I'd like to get a nice collection of people's spreadsheets here so that someone trying to start a new league can see what other people have done. I'll start with my elaborate contribution...

I am a little surprised by the number of people wishing for a more overstable fairway. The Ascent seems plenty beefy to me. That said, a set of speed 9-10 drivers including something PDish overstable would be welcome, and more useful to me than the OLace, let alone the Four20.