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Sensitivity measures the degree to which a hole gives lower scores to higher-rated players. The actual value is the ratio of the slope of actual scores (as a function of rating) to the slope expected of a wide-open flat hole of the same length.
For the Slope of the equivalent wide-open flat hole, is that based on data from real holes?
also by slope I'm assuming you mean slope of linear fit of player rating (x) vs score on hole
Blobby lookin' fellow, any significance to the seemingly weak positive correlation?For some reason, I decided to calculate Hole Length Variety for 289 courses for which I have hole lengths. This is a measure of how many different lengths of holes a course offers. One hole is 100% "different" from another if the longer hole is as at least 20% longer.
The actual calculations involve taking the log to the base 1.2 of the ratios of the lengths of each hole to each hole, rounding to an integer and then count the number of different integers using the Scoring Spread Width formula.
Anyway, here are the results.
The average across all courses was 6.08, which is about like having an even spread of hole lengths from 208 feet to 518 feet.
Here are the hole lengths (shortest to longest) for the courses that had the most variety (8.53) and the least (2.97).
Blobby lookin' fellow, any significance to the seemingly weak positive correlation?
"Bunching" is what I call someone thowing their fist fowud when I have a code."Bunching" is what I call the tendency of random scores to create ties. Which is bad.
a few ideas for the compactness of scores
gridlock as in high performers and crappy performers are all stuck at same spot due to hole design
bottleneck where a better player is prevented from distancing from a lesser than due to hole design
socialist/communist haha as in we prevent the gifted from outperforming the challenged due to hole design
Hole Enables Lesser Players or HELP as in I was having a hard time keeping up with McBeth until I got to that stretch of HELP holes and I was able to hang around
The leading candidates now are pithiness, succintness, and compactness. I want a positive connotation.
"Bunching" is what I call the tendency of random scores to create ties. Which is bad.
Sorry to thread drift, but where would hole 4 at brp fit on the "bunching" meter?