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Legend Score Saturation Skewed?

• PastorJon 283 Posts

  Tue, May 31 2016 2:54 PM

  For quite some time it's been determined that 500 games as a legend is the saturation point before your score stops going up and you can only lower your score.

  I've been looking forward to that day for quite some time, and finally hit it this morning.  So imagine my surprise when on my 502nd game as a legend, I shoot a 1 over par and my score goes UP!

  Have the calculations been changed for Legend's average score?

  Has this been noticed by anyone else, or has it happened at other levels?

  A number of other things like green speeds, wind effects on balls at different distances changing seemingly at random (Like 18-20 winds taking balls a mile from 120 yards and no effect from 85 yards with the same balls?) in the last few weeks.

• oneeyedjohn 9,588 Posts

  Tue, May 31 2016 3:11 PM

  Are u sure those 502 games don't include Best of Par 3 & 5's. 

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Tue, May 31 2016 3:15 PM

  Unfortunately, a final analysis ain't possible do to missing information.

  In general, the term "games" has some limitations concerning average calculation and saturation.

  1) Only ranked and stroke play tournament games count in, not CTTH, Blitz or MP matches.

  2) Those ranked [etc.] rounds must not take place on any Par3 or Par5 courses.

  Your score history (limited to 200 games) shows some CTTH or Blitz games - excluded.
  It also shows at least two Par5 games - excluded.

• PastorJon 283 Posts

  Tue, May 31 2016 4:04 PM

  oneeyedjohn:

  Are u sure those 502 games don't include Best of Par 3 & 5's. 

  As far as I know, I didn't think those games showed up in the tracked rounds, same as alt shot and match rounds don't.  I don't usually play either the all par 5's or par 3's except as alt shot games, though there may be a few in there. And I never noticed my average changing either way when I played those courses.

  I've always known the other kinds of games don't count, from day one, and that Match results no longer count towards your average score unlike they used to some time ago.

  I have played a lot of the best of famous/hardest, par 4 rounds, but these seem to all count for average scores, based on my average going up or down after I play them.

• Robert1893 7,729 Posts

  Tue, May 31 2016 6:10 PM

  PastorJon:

  For quite some time it's been determined that 500 games as a legend is the saturation point before your score stops going up and you can only lower your score.

  
  
  Earlier this year, I moved up to Legend. I can absolutely confirm that it was 500 rounds. I can also confirm that it's still using my top 500 rounds to calculate my average (I save all of my scores in an Excel spreadsheet).