If this has been discussed already and I missed it then I apologize up front.
Other than making what appears to be a lot of people happy, what other effects would having same winds have? Anyone thought what the effect on scoring would be?
Hypothesis: Random winds increase the spread of scores. Same winds would decrease the spread of scores.
Take a RG with 2 par 5s as an example. With random winds you could get 2 tail winds or 1 tail and 1 head, or 2 head winds add in the cross wind there's a total of 6 possibilities. Chance for -3 or -4 on two tail wind par 5s are fairly good. Not so on two head wind par 5s. That will lead to variations in scores. Same with par 3s. or a long hard par 4. more variations in score.
The whole point of same winds is to remove the advantage from the few who get 2 downwind par 5s. The advantage is part of the variation in scoring above.
In the case of same winds everyone gets just ONE of the 6 options. Say all 50 get 1 head and 1 cross. Where's the eagles now?
Random wind gives that player with 2 eagles a good chance to win. But if everyone got two tail wind par5s the there would be more players with 2 eagles. Hence tighter scoring overall.
Now, you might be thinking so what, that's what I want.
Here's an example what that would do to payouts.
This is for a 100cr RG. The left hand column is what I saw on average in the score groupings when looking at 5 RG payouts I called it typical. The right column is an example of what I think could happen with same winds. 5 players might be tied for lowest score. Versus 1 to 3 tied in my sample. Without the variation in scoring the scores will get bunched up.
With scores more bunched up winnings will go down because you start bringing the lower paying places into the better score payouts.
I'm thinking with same winds the size of a group with the same score will get larger. And that in turn reduces the individual's payout.
Still the top 30 sharing the pot. But they're all in the top 5 scores.
Let the discussion begin!