League play questions.....

Does anyone have any league play in their area? If so how exactly are you guys doing it? Is it individual or team play? Can someone give me some details because we're trying to get it started here at out local course.

Thanx

We do a neverending league. Every week is a handicapped event with payout to the top 1/3 after scores are adjusted by handicap.

Read up on USGA handicaps for the right way to calculate them.
Extremely over-simplified it's the best 10 rounds of the most recent 20.

Do NOT use a moving 4-round average (as is very popular) becuase it over compensates for a single very-good or very-bad round. Also using an average of a large number of rounds (like 10 or 20) encourages sandbagging. If a player is having a bad round, and realizes he can't cash, there's a built-in motivation to really tank the round to bring his average down. Using best 1/2 (up to 10 out of 20) discourages sandbagging because bad rounds aren't used, and includes enough rounds that one or two spectacular rounds won't totally destroy a player's average.

Houston has been doing weekly leagues for years.....

Ranges between 6 and 8 weeks usually, with your best 4-6 scores counting, where so long as the division has less than 30 people in it, top score for the week gets 30 points, 2nd 29, etc etc....

point total at the end of league, wins, payout top 50% in AM divisions, I believe....

[johnrock]

Almost exactly the same here. We've been using this kind of handicap system for several years, and it seems to work very well. Our club member who does the handicapping has even done a computer program to help in the process. He just enters the players scores each week after the round, and he brings a new handicap sheet (with current handicaps) every Saturday. I say it works well, great for the newer players. I have the lowest handicap in this area (I usually hover around Zero to about 1.5 - even using the best 10 of your last tewnty scores still brings out a good average), and even by bringing in the lowest scores on a consistant basis, I rarely ever win a handicap round. Which is good because newer players get to experience winning, and being close to winning just pushes to better players to try harder. and like Jim said, there is not much reason to try to sandbag a few rounds to "pad" your average.

hmmm....what you guys have to say is interesting, and was actually in a totally different directio nthan what I had in mind. Let me try to explain what I thought would be pretty nice. And you guys can give me the pro's and con's of it.

We were wanting to do a team based league play. 3 man teams playing one round then combining the 3 scores at the end of the round. All teams would meet one night a week, lets say Friday night and play one round. At the end of the round the team with the best overall score would recieve the approriate amount of points, lets say 10 , then 2nd would get 9, ect, ect.....At the end of the season team with the most points would win and would receive a prize package, but no cash, the majority of the money would go to developing the course more.

The course here is very new, in fact we only have a front 9 as of right now, and there aren't any advanced or pro players around so the events will pretty much be all am's, so the teams wouldn't realyy have any advantage over any other team......how does that sounds guys?

[rhett]

Here's how they do it at Morley Field:

http://www.morleyfield.com/course/leagues.htm

It's a lot of fun. You use 4-person teams and throw out the worst score. Your handicap is 90% of your average, so people who average negative scores can still score points for the team.

The drawbacks to that format are players can't join, quit, or no-show any time they wish. You have to commit for the entire schedule. If you miss one week due you let your team down.

Rhett's idea helps with that. If one player misses, the team can still be competitive.

[PinHigh]

Here's how we do it in Appleton Wisconsin. Last night, we had 36 people show up.

http://www.aadgc.com/telulah2004.html

We try not to call them leagues so people don't have to feel they need to make them every week. We call them weekly competitions.

[quickdisc]

Here's how we do it in Appleton Wisconsin. Last night, we had 36 people show up.

http://www.aadgc.com/telulah2004.html

We try not to call them leagues so people don't have to feel they need to make them every week. We call them weekly competitions.


Cool.......I have an Aunt who lives in Appleton , WI.
She sends me the local newspaper articles on Disc Golf from
time to time. :D

Thanx for the help guys, we are meeting with the park director tomorrow to hammer out all the details. So if anyone is from or around Cookeville TN league plan is slotted to start up in mid June at the new Cane Creek Disc Golf Course.

I'm in Cookeville, and I know a couple guys who would be interested. We could add a team to the league. As my screen name attests, I am not an advanced player. Neither are my friends. But we love the game.

I was talking to Rick at Cookeville Leisure Services recently and he said the back nine will be up through the woods and will be more challenging. Where do I contact you about joining the league?

The easiest thing to do is establish the base number
each round equal to (best score minus 2) then players
with one score get 70% of their score minus the base
with two scores get 75% of their scores minus the base
three or more get 80% this is simple and handles variables.