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Hi folks, sorry for longish post but bit of an update / plea for your on-line help:
Monthly Challenge (Update)
The Jan challenge is going well with just over half the month gone and two (well, one & half) playing weekends left to go. If anyone has recently got a GG and has not had an invite to the GM Forum Users monthly challenge then either post here or drop me a PM and I'll make sure you get your invite.
As the take up has been good I'm happy to set something up on a monthly basis. One of the limitations to the challenges is that 'success' is all relative to gross scores so the lower handicap players will always end up at the top of the pile. I've been in email comms with GG on this as it sort of misses one of the great qualities of golf as a game in that the hcp system allows all to compete equally. They have informed me that "Adding a net score and net handicap challenges are on the product road map" and the "product development team has expressed strong interest in releasing this feature". They realise that the first step before creating challenges with handicap is determining each user’s handicap and also said "we plan to release a feature within a few weeks that should calculate a handicap. That will be the first step in creating handicap challenges." So good news but timesclaes are not yet confirmed.
Therefore I have a couple of alternative suggestions for Feb as a stop gap:
(1) I'll set up a challege on Putts/hole as a two part challenge. Feb will be part 1 and interesting to see who does well, but we'll repeat this in July and the greatest improvement will be the main measure as well as who wins in July. That way, mid / higher hcp have a good chance in the most improved stat? (This will only work if most think they will be putting on greens in Feb - does that rule too many out?)
(2) We could use the analysis tab and post a screen shot at the end of the month on a chosen parameter (I suggest FiR at the winter time of year) with the competition around the greatest margin above the benchmark for the relevent hcp range?
So thoughts, option 1 or option 2?? Post below please and I've got my eye out for further improvemets in the challenge areas so I'll keep you posted - which leads me on to..............
Your on-line help needed:
The other item that the GG team mentioned in their emails is to encourage people to sign in to the development forum and add / vote for features and ideas they'd like to see in the future. Two are relevant to the challenge area I'm trying to sort (so please add three votes each for these as a start!)
http://myexperience.gamegolf.com/fo.../suggestions/6290741-more-types-of-challenges
http://myexperience.gamegolf.com/fo...-let-s-level-the-playing-field-for-challenges
Thanks
Simon.
Monthly Challenge (Update)
The Jan challenge is going well with just over half the month gone and two (well, one & half) playing weekends left to go. If anyone has recently got a GG and has not had an invite to the GM Forum Users monthly challenge then either post here or drop me a PM and I'll make sure you get your invite.
As the take up has been good I'm happy to set something up on a monthly basis. One of the limitations to the challenges is that 'success' is all relative to gross scores so the lower handicap players will always end up at the top of the pile. I've been in email comms with GG on this as it sort of misses one of the great qualities of golf as a game in that the hcp system allows all to compete equally. They have informed me that "Adding a net score and net handicap challenges are on the product road map" and the "product development team has expressed strong interest in releasing this feature". They realise that the first step before creating challenges with handicap is determining each user’s handicap and also said "we plan to release a feature within a few weeks that should calculate a handicap. That will be the first step in creating handicap challenges." So good news but timesclaes are not yet confirmed.
Therefore I have a couple of alternative suggestions for Feb as a stop gap:
(1) I'll set up a challege on Putts/hole as a two part challenge. Feb will be part 1 and interesting to see who does well, but we'll repeat this in July and the greatest improvement will be the main measure as well as who wins in July. That way, mid / higher hcp have a good chance in the most improved stat? (This will only work if most think they will be putting on greens in Feb - does that rule too many out?)
(2) We could use the analysis tab and post a screen shot at the end of the month on a chosen parameter (I suggest FiR at the winter time of year) with the competition around the greatest margin above the benchmark for the relevent hcp range?
So thoughts, option 1 or option 2?? Post below please and I've got my eye out for further improvemets in the challenge areas so I'll keep you posted - which leads me on to..............
Your on-line help needed:
The other item that the GG team mentioned in their emails is to encourage people to sign in to the development forum and add / vote for features and ideas they'd like to see in the future. Two are relevant to the challenge area I'm trying to sort (so please add three votes each for these as a start!)
http://myexperience.gamegolf.com/fo.../suggestions/6290741-more-types-of-challenges
http://myexperience.gamegolf.com/fo...-let-s-level-the-playing-field-for-challenges
Thanks
Simon.
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still one week to go though 
