neildiamond11790:
Dscroggs and others, the putting stat listed is so annoying and off in this game, but its actually correct. You are thinking that out of 100 putts from 5-10ft you make only 12.11%, but thats not what the stat shows. What it shows is out of your total putts what % fell from those distances.
So for dscroggs:
11989 Total putts
Of those 11989, 45.22% you made from 0-5ft, 12.11% from 5-10ft and so on.
Its really a dumb statistic that makes little sense because it is not telling you what percentage you make from 5-10ft, but out of your total putts what distances you made the from.
Yep.
That particular stat is a little screwy and really doesn't allow you to understand anything about the person's putting ability.
For example, some average players might be looking at a 10-25 ft putt every single time they get on the green, and they'll have, let's say a 20% putts made from 10-25 ft stat, whereas the best players might only have 40% of their approaches land in that range, and they might have a 15% putts made from 10-25 ft stat, but that doesn't mean the average player is better than the best players when putting from that distance. The fact that the best players are in the 10-25 ft range only twice for every three times that an average player is in that range often offsets the fact that the best players are far better putters, but the way the statistic is implemented, their "% putts made from 10-25%" stat will be exactly the same or even make it seem as if the average player is the better putter.
Pretty much the only stats worth looking at to get a gauge of someone's putting is avg distance to pin on approach and one-putt percentage... but even that is thrown off by what courses they play (KIA and ST A greens being harder than BPB greens) or whether or not they sometimes just simply get on the green and screw around in practice rounds.