“What kind of value are our advertising dollars buying us?” - @precisionpro
[pulls up slide with this meme]
“Well as you can see…” - @nlu
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someone @ me when we start talking about vibes or backstopping
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i’m not sure anyone vibes harder than @JScore
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So when and where exactly was this calm day you speak of?
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Just a reminder to the salty wannabe staffers that golf only gets more difficult the better you get. Your margins for error become tighter. The need to score gets higher.
The point of handicap is to get everyone in the mix.
The LCP here is thicc right now.
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Listen, if a gui can’t stand on the tee in front of 20 over-served refugees, deal with a loudmouth from MSP farting in his backswing, and piping it down the middle, what are we even doing here?!?
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Honestly my biggest golf highlight of the year was making a downhill four footer to save par on 12 in your presence.
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This is not a linear stableford game, and it’s not a non-linear stableford game. The math is really pretty simple.
Take a 0 and a 5 HCP. Assume for a moment that the 0 scores, on average, 5 strokes better than the 5 HCP (and yes, I know this isn’t perfectt both because of courses, and the fact that the HCP is not an average of ALL scores, but it’s a close enough proxy for these purposes).
In a NET linear (standard) Stableford, the 0 and the 5, if playing to their averages will be very close, because the 5 will get five strokes, equalling about 5 points.
In a NET non-linear (modified) Stableford, if they play to their averages, the 5 will likely have an advantage, because he gets 5 strokes, and he gets BONUS points where his opponent doesn’t, i.e., if he makes a gross par on the 1-5 HCP holes, he gets 4 points instead of 2. The 5 strokes he gets will have an EV of somewhere between 1 and 2 per hole, or between 5 and 10 points per round. So if he makes 5 pars on the 1-5 holes, he’d pick up an extra 10 points. If he even makes 5 bogies, he gets an extra 5 points.
But in the QUOTA (non-linear) game, the 0 has the advantage if they play to their mean, because those 5 strokes are worth AT MOST 5 points exactly. In reality, based on the chart from Grint data I posted above, they are both likely to make 2-4 birdies, and the 5 points will be made up on the 3rd birdie, and there are no penalties for double or worse. Five pars on the 1-5 holes, or 5 birdies, or any combination thereof does the 5 HCP no extra good; he gets the same points as the 0 HCP. The low HCP has the advantage in this game.
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edit: love ya, brotha
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Time for a poll!
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We all can aspire to those vibes.
I’m not sure what I was more impressed by, the drive or the fact that Baxter didn’t shit himself?
Wait, he didn’t shit himself?
Hmmpf. Who knew?!
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If only I could time my swing as well as that fart
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Baxter knew. Baxter knew.
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That explains the change in his gait and the foul stench surrounding him the rest of the night.
I just thought he was a smelly weird gui.
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My body is a finely tuned machine blimp. I’m well aware of what an inbound fart feels like vs. a shart.
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To be fair we were all downwind of a sewage treatment plant all weekend, so who could really say?
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RIP @BaxterMSP, gone2soon.
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