DoIT Golf League Frequently Asked Questions
Question: How are the points calculated?
Answer: See the Scoring How-To.
Question: My teammate and I both have the same handicap. How is it determined who plays who?
Answer: Which ever team member is listed as Player 1 will play the opponent with lower handicap. At the beginning of the season when the teams are created, the team member who has the lower handicap is generally Player 1. If the handicaps are the same or there are no established handicaps then one player is chosen at random.
Question: I had a bad day and my score was pretty bad, but the score listed is lower than what I actually shot. What's up?
Answer: The league has an anti-sandbagger rule. See the rules, section I.G.1. The score keeper is only allowed to enter a score that is your average +9. The adjusted score is used to calculate your average. Your real score was used to calculate the team points.
Question: How are the average and handicap calculated?
Answer: It's a little complicated. First, you have to determine which average to use.
If you've never played in the DoIT Golf League before, whatever your score is for your first game is your average.
If you have have played in the league before, then:
If you have played 0-3 games this season, use the full season average from the last season you played in the league, even if you only played a single game in that season. If you have not played in a previous season, then use the average of all your previous scores from this season, even if you only played one game before.
If you have played 4-7 games this season, use the average of all the games played this season.
If you have played 8 or more games this season, drop your lowest score and then use the average of the next seven lowest scores. After you have played 8 games your handicap cannot go up.
Once you know which average to use make sure it has been rounded to the nearest integer. Then subtract 36 and multiply by .8. Round to the nearest integer and the final result is your handicap.
Question: Why is the handicap double rounded?
Answer: The average is rounded and then used to calculate the handicap, which is rounded again. This method of computation was carried forward from the mainframe. When I initially wrote my version of the program I found that the handicap it calculated was often off by one. Eventually I figured out the difference was that I was using the real average instead of the rounded average. Once I rounded the average first, everything came into line. The root reason was to save memory in the mainframe program. Storing an integer uses less space.
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