[General Scales]

Originally Posted by emmarose

weak. sauce.



your rating (with enough rounds under your belt, anyway) is a pretty darn good indicator of the type of golfer you are in a tournament situation... and that includes when you play like poop... which happens more for some people and less for others.

yes, i am sad that i didn't break 900 this season but it is not because of an unfair rating system it is because in several tournaments i played like poop. and if you can't accept that sometimes you play like poop... well, then... freaking get better...

the slosh finale at Lunchtime was a horribly humiliating experience for me... i didn't want to look at anyone, or talk to anyone or finish the damn tournament... easily the worst golf i have ever played in my life... 804 rated round... i did not drop out to save my rating... i came back (knowing there was no chance for me to win and quite possibly had just screwed my goal for the season of breaking 900 before the season even really started) and pulled myself together and shot a 900+ round because the humiliation of shooting 804 is nothing compared to what a lame-o crybaby i would have felt like if i'd dropped...

and my karmic payback? despite not knowing the "2.5 times your standard deviation below your rating" rule, my round was so terrible it didn't end up counting anyway...

That's because you're a disc golf soldier! Droppers make me sad.