By popular request, UDisc Leagues now supports handicap scoring! Run a singles event on a Smart Layout to unlock automatically-calculated handicaps for your league. Handicap scoring will help to give players of all skill levels a fair chance to compete.
Why can’t we run our series standings based on the handicaps rather than raw score? Not using the handicap defeats the purpose of providing us with the handicap as we still have to put the scores back into our spreadsheet to calculate proper standings.
Thank you for this feedback, James! Our team has heard this from a handful of leagues that use UDisc for standings points now, and it’s something we are considering for a follow-up development effort. We will keep you in the loop!
Thanks for your thoughtful message, Jeff! Advanced league events are not supported in the current version of handicap scoring on UDisc, so you wouldn’t be able to configure handicaps for a league event using pools (different divisions assigned to different layouts). However, you can use divisions for a handicap scoring event, which will give you a division-based leaderboard view in addition to a combined handicap-adjusted leaderboard view.
Some leagues have created multiple events on the same day to run handicap scoring across different layouts, so this would be a creative solution. You could for example create a Pro event on the long layout, and an Am event on the med/short layout. They could both be handicap scoring events, or even if you’re running both events through the same league, you could run the Amateur event with handicap scoring and the Pro event with just raw total number of strokes. I hope this helps!
My league has manual handicaps. I personally have faith the formula for handicaps is sensible, but the lack of transparency is a hard sell for most in my league. The blog post helps, but it’s a little abstract. We’ve been using a manual method of “older than 40, -1” and “pro, +1”, for example. We’ll not be using this feature, not this season at least.
Our hope as that we’d be able to assign score adjustments to qualifying members in the league based on our merits.
I’ve suggested this in a previous posts.
We do appreciate the update, and I continue to sing Udisc’s praises in the field.
Thank you for your honest feedback, Graham! Is there any particular aspect of the math for which you’d want more transparency for clarification on how the UDisc handicap calculations work?
Think we’ll have to play at least 5 events worth of league to have a better sense. I’d like to see how the handicap is displayed for players. I’ll follow up here next month.
Good question Graham! The players are all playing the same holes as each other for a given event, but the league may rotate to different courses and layouts week-to-week. And there might be different players in the field each week, so players could have varied historical courses and layouts played. There’s some underlying math which is related to players’ past performance and hole difficulty that calculates a projected score for each player’s round, and that projection is related to their handicap. Some players might excel on shorter wooded courses for example, whereas other big arms might score better in the wide open bomber-style courses. The handicap math model is designed to adjust for individual players’ strengths and how they apply their abilities on different unique styles of disc golf courses.
For example, my handicap might be a -2 from the blue layout, and a -5 from the gold layout at the same course. And if the league hosts an event at a different course altogether, especially if it’s much different in difficulty or length, then I may have a totally significantly handicap for that league event. I hope this helps!