A one-line data modelling decision that determines whether correcting a handicap fixes the future or rewrites the past. We shipped this wrong, so here is the argument.
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League & season design
How to build season tables that stay fair when members play irregularly — and what we learned building ours.
Raw Stableford totals are not comparable across round lengths, and adding them to a season table quietly makes the longest round count double. The fix and the trap inside the fix.
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If season points accumulate over every round, attendance is a scoring term and your table ranks availability. The argument, the arithmetic, and the one-line fix.
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A form board that rewards recent scoring, tolerates irregular attendance and cannot be gamed by sitting out. The four decisions that took three attempts to get right.
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Every decaying performance measure has the same awkward property — playing can cost you. Here is the maths, why the alternatives are worse, and what to tell members.
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Once you have two seasons of scores, a handful of simple queries answer questions societies usually argue about — handicap accuracy, course difficulty, pace, and who is quietly drifting away.
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