Skytrak Skills Assessment Dynamic Handicap needs major tweaking

[Little_Stickner]

I love the idea of the skills assessment but the scoring that is done needs some major tweaking to get it back in line with reality. The attached screenshot is from the official Skytrak skills promo video.

It gave the user an overall handicap of 7.7 for that session.

I compared the results to FAIRWAY proximity to the hole for the 2016 PGA Tour season.

There are 6 categories covered in the sample skills assessment. The user would have ranked:

• Worse than dead last on tour for the 85 yard shot
• 177th place for the 100-125 yard shots
• 125th place for the 125-150 yard shots
• 77th place for the 125-175 yard shots
• 81st place for the 175-200 yard shots
• 70th place for the 200-225 yard shots

A person hitting the ball this well is striking the ball at a tour quality level yet they have a dynamic handicap of 7.7.

They should be a plus 3 to plus 5 handicap, not a 7.7.

I am not complaining. I love my Skytrak so far and bought this thing mainly for the skills feature. But the calcs for the handicap should be drastically improved.

[shimonko]

The major issue IMO with that dynamic handicap is a handicap can't be judged from approach shots only. That would be assuming the ability in the rest of the game matches approach shots, which is never the case.

I know plenty of mid handicappers who would give bottom of a stats category touring pros a run for their money in that particular category. But the Tour Pro would smash them in all or nearly all other categories.

The 190th Tour pro at 85 yard average 29' - his real life handicap might be +5. The Pro in first place at 5' also might be +5. Very little correlation.

That pro averaging 29' - it's a very weak part of his game. If his putting/scrambling/driving didn't make up for it, he wouldn't be on Tour.

Also pros have wind and uneven lies to deal with, even on the fairway.

[Sam Mendoza]

I personally ignore the handicap comparison to real life handicaps.

Just use the number as a baseline and try and improve on it.