Having reviewed the scores from the season it appears to me that the ‘Standard Deviant’ system is a complete load of bollocks. For those that do not understand read the following:
> In order to promote attendance at events, a handicap increase mechanic is to be trialled in order to prevent regular members being continually penalised for competing.
> Handicap increases of 0.2 for a Minor and 0.4 for a Major will be given to those competitors whose stapleforth points for that tournament are below 1 standard deviation from the mean – This calculation will be performed by the Prof, probably not in his head.
My Views/Questions are:
– Has the handicap increase mechanic trial finished now – When will it be labelled as a failure as that is clearly what it is…
– Can we agree a new system – i have a great idea on this, lets use the system that every golf club in UK use!!
– The standard deviant means that basically from this seasons results you would only go up if you scored about 21 points (as i understand it). This means that you could shoot around of 14 over nett and no go up!
– The standard deviant system has only changed 3 exact handicaps all year – Pres/Prof/TD, but has not affected their
actual playing handicaps – Therefore it has actually done nothing.
– Example – Pres has scored an average of 18.8 points in the 5 tournaments he has played in this season and is still off the same
handicap.
– Example – Ron has never played to 0 since being cut to 0 two years ago and still remains at 0
It’s time for a review – lets kick out the sub standard deviant
Cheers Ron
Note – this was supported, surprisingly enough, by Idiot
this was sent from Ron a while ago – did anything happen as a result?
I don’t believe so, I’ve seen no constitutional updates on handicaps in the 12 months since this was raised. Now Ron is on the board, he’s probably comfortable with the status quo.
Plus, I reckon he’s biding his time – give it a couple of years and everyone will be playing off completely unrealistic handicaps and therefore incapable of posting a winning stapleforth total. This is less devastating for low handicappers and Ron in particular – 2012 might be when he goes for an ‘invicibles’ season on tour.