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Sun, Nov 24 2013 1:29 AM (2 replies)
  • ebbwmikey
    441 Posts
    Sat, Nov 23 2013 5:25 PM

    can some  please  explain to me how i score 30 on congressional.cc and dint drop zip on my average but when i play st  Andrews  and score 31 i drop 0.01 just don't add up

  • alosso
    21,088 Posts
    Sat, Nov 23 2013 11:40 PM

    Short explanation: Them changes hide in the third decimal.

    Now take a glass of milk and a seat ;)

    Preliminaries:

    - With your history, I assume that your average is saturated. This means some guesswork is involved because we don't know all of your best 500 Legend scores.

    - Just gross scores count towards the average, no matter on which course.
    These 9 hole scores doubled, you played a 60 and a 62.

    The story:

    In a saturated average, a new score may kick out a higher one (if available) to provoke a change. As a guess, there may be some 64 scores in the mix. Now a 60 enhances the scores' sum by 4. Divide by 500 = 0.008. You may not see this change if the average was 62.144 before because 62.136 is rounded to 62.14 again.

    Next score, a 62, makes up for 2/500 change in the average. That's 0.004 only, but don't be surprised to see the new 62.132 average as 62.13.

    End of story.

    Side remarks:

    - I'm quite sure to have hit your true "highest score" because (65-60)/500=0.01 would have been visible at once. The story would work with 63, too, but not with 62 => impossible with an average above 62. no change from the second game.

    - it works similar in an unsaturated average of a high number of rounds, except for being linear, no "kick out".

    - lowest possible change is 1/500 = 0.002. Four of them may hide in rounding.

    (edited)

     

  • pdxdriver
    2,628 Posts
    Sun, Nov 24 2013 1:29 AM

    Crikey,i bet your glad you asked eh EbbwMikey :)

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