Skills assessment still sucks

[trumb1mj]

Here is a list of issues/improvements:

1) Adjusting yardages is tedious--there needs to be a better way (5 yard increments with larger +/- buttons?)
2) Need the ability to save multiple skill assessment types (short, mid, long game)
3) Why is there a limit on the number yardages in an assessment?
4) Randomized assessment: Ability to set to "random" and allow skytrak to send you to X amount of different yardage targets

I'm not pulling these ideas out of thin air--many have asked for these features in the past.

[Riverrun]

I have similar feelings on the OP's thoughts.

My priorities would be:

1. Driving range random yardage mode that you can select a range of yardages when you select your green difficulty. So select medium green 30 - 90 yards Random. Then we can hit 1 shot to each target.
2. Skills assessment needs to include the ability to do a ladder drill with 1 shot, every shot counts. So if I have 30,50, 70, 90. I can select 1 ball, 1 ball counts and go through the drill. I think the above random yardage range of 30 - 90 yards could be part of this as well. Not sure but the 10 second splash screen seems too long in between yardages now as well. Is that configurable??
3. It would be nice for it to tell us distance to the pin after each shot to a green if one exists as well.

Edit: I know its been said so didn't want to create another post. The skills assessment from 20 - 100 yards is overly harsh to low handicappers in terms of dynamic handicap. I have to be stripping it to get within 5 of my mid single digit cap. This is a low priority item but should make the road map at some point.

Keep up the great work Seth! every update makes the Skytrak better!

[SkyTrak_Seth]

We are making some adjustments to skills assessment 2 releases from now. This will include many of the requests listed in this thread. Thanks for the comments and suggestions!

[DannyMRICS]

I don’t think the Trackman Combine is “all that”. It’s too focussed on shots < 100y.

An overall “total” skills assessment would be good, or divided into <100y, 100-150y, 150-200y, and driving. Mark Broadie’s Every Shot Counts is an excellent reference for Fractional Remaining Length (FRL), or percentage distance left to hole, for different handicaps. I convert my FRL to a Mark Broadie handicap (which correlates very closely with Trackman’s handicapping system).

The overall “handicap” could be weighted appropriately (again, in line with Mark Broadie’s findings). Driving would be weighted quite heavily, at least compared to Trackman’s Combine. I’m not sure how distance v accuracy could be weighted with driving though.

Morini’s percentages are probably from Mark Broadie or Trackman as they are the figures I work to.

Dan.

[Morini]

I don’t have sim and wanted more realistic and relevant practice so I created a spreadsheet. I “recreate” a course by playing the distance of each hole in driving range practice. For example, on a 400 yard par 4 I hit driver. If total is 260, I then hit an approach of 140. I then track how far from hole. I enter this in my spreadsheet, and calculate Broadie strokes gain on all drive and approach shots (I don’t worry about short game or putting).

The benefit is that I get to hit exactly the shots I will see when on real course. Second, the numeric feedback in shots gained form is very motivational for a quant nerd like me. I benchmark against Broadie 80 golfer data which is close to what I actually shoot. Finally, I can have the spreadsheet spit out my weaknesses so I can target them.

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, real life strokes gained is a bit harder than sim strokes gained due to wind, bad lies, tough hole locations etc.

[trumb1mj]

I think an 18 hole GIR/FIR challenge would be amazing. SkyTrak could have a preconfigured par 72 course where you hit a tee shot, then hit an approach. You're graded on FIR, GIR and proximity to the pin. #nextlevel