DestrehanTiger

I feel like your league's rule about winning no more than twice sort of promotes sandbagging. If you already won twice, you may as well tank the other rounds. I wouldn't do it, but I could see some take that route.

I feel like removing that rule would remove the incentive to sandbag since all the rounds used for handicapping are in the league. Sandbagging is an issue for other tournaments where a guy plays a bunch of rounds leading up to the tournament to get his cap up before. For your league, though, all the scores are part of the league. So, it just doesn't make sense to sandbag unless it's due to that one rule.

I guess a guy can tank a round when he knows he has no shot at winning after a few holes. That is why the handicapping system uses 8/20 rounds rather than an average.

Yeah, this will be tricky. There is also something you need to keep an eye on. When you play a round, if you click on the player, there is a toggle where you say if something counts towards handicap. If you want the handicaps to update after a round, keep that on, if not, turn it off.

I think this may be a situation where you need to put in some time to start to save you time later. You mentioned a guy having a spreadsheet. You should get that spreadsheet and put some formulas in for the slope and rating of the courses you are playing to have it calculate all the handicap differentials from past rounds. Then either use the GHIN formula for taking the best 8 out of 20 rounds, or just use average.

The more I think about it, the more I think you'll have a tough time with this. When you make an account on Squabbit, you can link your handicap to GHIN. I would imagine that is how most leagues keep track of everyone's caps. I realize that doesn't help you, but I am not sure of a way around this.

This is anecdotal, but I didn't realize it was on during the holidays. I watched yesterday's match last night after the kids went to bed. I would assume the ratings will be better for week 3. They might still suck, I don't care.

The biggest advantage of the suspension is the deterrent for current players to leave. If they allow Koepka back immediately, the next step will be for a player to take a check to play in one LIV event then come back.

The last few years have proven to us that the PGA tour is bigger than 1 or 2 players. I don't think the benefit of getting a declining Koepka (who has never really cared about tour events anyway) this season is outweighed by the benefits of keeping the path they have been on.

Now, if Rahm or Dechambeau were looking to come back, maybe you change the rules to potentially kill LIV altogether.

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Inflammable and Flammable

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I actually just read about this one. The word was originally inflammable, but it got confused with other words that start with im and imply the opposite. So, factories just stared dropping the im in the beginning to avoid confusion and potentially harmful accidents.

Now that I think about it, I think Squabbit can update your handicap in the system based on rounds played. I would just look into ditching the 3 month window to establish caps and let it run the whole year. It makes sense that guys may blow away their quota when they could have just played poorly the first 3 months of the season. Let the system do the handicapping for you and if a guy somehow beats his quota by 181%, then his future rounds will reflect it. I've only ever played quota with ghin handicaps, so it was hard to blow away your quota.

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3.5 hours is okay, 4 is miserable, anything over 4 is just intolerable

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I would love to be able to play in less than 4 hours, but if I am playing a public course where I'm not the first group off, I consider anything around 4 hours to be a win.

I'm a broken record on here with promoting walking, but walking would certainly reduce the perception of slow pace of play. Instead of driving and waiting to hit, you walk and the green is typically clear when you get to your ball.

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And appeared to be 100% AI generated as well. Terrible commercial.

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Yeah, it was definitely giving uncanny valley vibes. Something felt off.

It's kind of weird seeing a thread where a bunch of Big 10 fans are making fun of the IQ of SEC fans while voluntarily frequenting an SEC message board. You are the company you keep.

I think it's an impressive win for Iowa.

Yeah, Kevin was sent to bed at dinner time. They may have mentioned the time, but let's assume 7. That's still a lot of time to get the kitchen cleaned before going to bed.