So I had some free time on my hands while Kara was sleeping in and I thought it would be interesting to look at where people tend to finish in our official rounds of Disc Golf. We officially began postings scores in our Recaps back in the middle of November. Granted, there were many rounds played between April and early November that were never recorded, but we do have over 20 rounds of data to work with.
What I was thinking is that we tend to play in teams during our Roundbrand games and that a ranking system could help us determine how to set our teams up. We used this system for the first time yesterday and we actually saw movement in the rankings based on yesterday’s results. A Recap of yesterday’s round will be coming soon, but for now here are some tidbits of info from my work, the methodology behind the scoring and the first published Ranking.
Rankings will be published once a week from here on out. They are based on a 1st Place finish getting 4 points, 2nd Place gets 3 points, 3rd Place gets 2 points and any finish below 3rd gets 1 point. A person then gets a Score based on the Sum of their points divided by the number of Roundbrand Rounds they have participated in. I am splitting the Rankings into two groups of people. The first group, labeled Regulars, is people who have participated in at least 25% of the rounds we have scored. The second group, labeled Part-Timers is people who have been involved in less than 25%. Each week I will show the players current Score followed by what their Score was the previous week and then the number of times their team finished 1st. This weeks Rankings have yesterday’s round included in the score.
Tidbits: Weaver has never finished below 3rd. Ethan and I have only finished below 3rd once each. No one is close to Jonathan with nine 1st Place finishes. I expect this to self correct, but there is no way Kara should be ranked 8th out of 9 regular players. Especially since she recorded the 1st ever Roundbrand Hole in One Sunday! Enjoy and feel free to give feedback on possible changes to my method.
