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The Mysteries of the Swing Meter...

• DakotaDog61 115 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 1:20 PM

  Perhaps I am a little slow on the uptake and a lot of you already know this, but I am curious about the following:

  I notice this with putting, and most shots from the fairway or rough or hazards, but never see it with the ball in the tee box.

  When I draw back to swing, if I hold onto the mouse, and not let it begin the down swing, two lines on the swing meter will begin to draw in, towards the center of the ding line. If I wait long enough, they stop moving.

  Is this related to club precision? Ie, the club starts "wide", and focuses down to its rated ability, or is this some kind of "player settling his feet before shooting thing"?

  Playing around with it in practice, I have found it seemed to make my putting a lot better. I wasn't having so many of those, "are you freaking kidding me" misses.

  I searched through the forums, but found little of use regarding the make-up of the swing meter. Anyone have any ideas?

  Thanks,

  DD61

   

• alosso 21,092 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 3:04 PM

  That zone is a tolerance zone and IMHO it's negative if it becomes smaller. Thus it punishes a slow player for holding the swing. Eventually, it will release by itself, but it would be better to cancel the shot when the lines start moving.

• keidan 311 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 3:23 PM

  +1

  I agree to swing before the lines start moving.  Here's another description I found from another player that I thought was pretty good.  -Keith

   

  jeffdos924:

   That light blue area on either side of the ding line represent your margin of error .. the farther you miss the ding, the more off-line your shot will be. In real life, the swing is a pretty fluid motion -- smooth back swing, slight pause at the top, then the downswing.  Here in WGT land, you'll notice that that light blue zone doesn't start shrinking until you stop your backswing. When that zone shrinks, so does that margin of error. A 1 or 2 pixel miss isn't bad at all when you have a full blue area. Hold at the top of your swing and let that zone shink to almost nil, and that same 1 or 2 pixels will go a mile off line.

• DakotaDog61 115 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 3:29 PM

  Thank you very much. That makes a lot of sense.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 4:18 PM

  Pausing at the top of the back swing gives the CPU in your computer time to settle down which usually makes the meter smoother during its march to the Ding! (Excellent) line.

  Ideally you will have little if anything other than the WGT game client page running on your computer when you play so the CPU in your computer can be as quiescent as possible as the meter moves from left to right.

• DakotaDog61 115 Posts

  Sun, Sep 14 2014 4:42 PM

  ApexPC:

  gives the CPU in your computer time to settle down which usually makes the meter smoother during its march to the Ding!

  Yeah, I rarely suffer the dreaded meter stutter. Usually smooth as butter.