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Average Calculations??

• nevard1 51 Posts

  Sun, Feb 1 2015 3:27 PM

  Here is your statement on calculating averages within a Tier.

  Your Average Score will be based on multiple best scores within ONLY your current Tier, not scores that you shot when in previous Tiers, which better reflects your current skill competing with the tee boxes and green speeds in your current Tier. Your Average Score will be based on ONLY your best scores, so completing a bad round will not negatively impact your Average Score or Tier. So be sure to finish all your rounds and gain the extra experience points, as a bad day won’t matter. Please note that scores from the Best of Par 3 stroke play course will not be counted towards your Tier ranking.

  Since reading this statement where only  multiple best scores are used in calculating averages I finished all 164 ranked rounds and find that all 164 rounds are being used in my average calculation, not just multiple best scores. Now I find that I will have to shot 60 or better on several hundreds of rounds to reach the Tour Legends Tier.

   Had I known this or not read your statement I never would have finished any round over 60. So that after a hundred round I would have made it to the Tour Legends Tier. My  total # of RR is 887. The hundred and 164 RR are the ones in which my average is calculated since reaching Tier Legend and every RR is used in calculating my average.

  So now since with heavier winds and more difficult distances my average is 66.41 base on 164 RR  with all RR being averaged

  If I were to shoot 54 on every round on the next 180 RR my calculated average then would be 59.99. If I were to shoot an average of 59 it will take 1080 RR rounds to achieve a calculated average of 59.99.

  So this system really means that the likelihood of me ever reaching Tour Legend Tier is next to or actually impossible.

  Perhaps you could reword your statement or come up with a better way of calculating averages somewhat like real handicaps are worked out. One really doesn't worry about  experience points when it takes over 100,000 points to go from level 91 to level 92.

  Perhaps after reaching Legend Tier + 500 total RR + 100 RR after reaching Tier Legend. Use the last 25 RR scores minus the worst round  and the best round, then average the remaining 23RR to ensure that the next Tier can  be reached. Not just a multiple of the best rounds or in reality every round after reaching Legend Ter.

  Thank you Nevard1

   

   

• Mushy01 2,567 Posts

  Sun, Feb 1 2015 6:19 PM

  500 RR's and avg of 60 to TL in Legend tier.

• NorCalMega 179 Posts

  Sun, Feb 1 2015 9:05 PM

  nevard1:

   Had I known this or not read your statement I never would have finished any round over 60. So that after a hundred round I would have made it to the Tour Legends Tier.

  IMHO, quitting round after round to manipulate or protect your average misses the point and would taint any levels reached. That said, as another poster pointed out it takes 500 RR with an average of 60 to reach Tour Legend. I will agree that "average" can be a bit misleading if you don't realize it's the average of your best scores up to 500 rounds(or wahtever the nbr is for the next level someone is trying to achieve) versus an average of your running scores indefinitely.

  It took me something like 470 RR to reach Legend and if I had an average for all 470 rounds it would be quite a bit higher then the 61 average needed for my best 50 rounds as a Tour Master to move up to Legend. Reaching Tour Legend takes commitment. Took me just under 4 months to get to Legend but as I expect to play less here going forward and need to play better to boot I would not be surprised if I didn't even sniff TL until 2016, especially since some of the equipment I need will be slow going from now on out as XP needed to level up are really going up now.

   

• alosso 21,093 Posts

  Sun, Feb 1 2015 11:11 PM

  nevard1:

  I finished all 184 ranked rounds and find that all 184 rounds are being used in my average calculation, not just multiple best scores. Now I find that I will have to shot 60 or better on several hundreds of rounds to reach the Tour Legends Tier.

  The number "multiple" being 500, your 184 fit into that rule. By chance, they are now "all", too.

  nevard1:

  Had I known this or not read your statement I never would have finished any round over 60. So that after a hundred round I would have made it to the Tour Legends Tier.

  Unknowingly, lucky you failed to commit a common error about "average protection". Those scores which do not fit into the final 500 for an average of 60.000 are irrelevant for tiering. Play them or not, no difference. Alas, their XPs count in for the levels (important for access to better equipment) and practice: Those who quit prematurely miss experience on the last holes.

  OTOH, to play the game mainly for tiering up seems questionable to me.

  Have fun!