[Jeff Hemmerling]

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

Seems to me just another aspect of the
game that requires strategy. Do you save the higher rated players for
the dubs rounds and risk losing the singles rounds? Do you use all of
your top rated players to make sure that you win the singles and then
hope to get the dubs match with the lower rated players?

I agree but not it's a compelling reason to not handicap doubles.

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

There is no requirement to field players
in the extra dubs match, but if they are present, wouldn't playing
usually be the choice instead of not playing? The dubs team with no
matchup only has to complete 1 hole better than +4 to take the match
point.

I didn't realize that if team A can field two players and team B
couldn't (or wouldn't) then team A got a point by default. I don't
like that because if a team can only field 4 players for the day they
are automatically going to lose 2 points against a team that fields 6
or 7. This turns team golf into somewhat of an attendence contest.
We already have a bonus point for all 7 playing.

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

Regardless, we are only talking about 2
out of 12 possible points coming from dubs. But I want to make the
competition as fair as possible.

So do I. That's what I'm ranting about.

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

What if we adopted the Dizzy Rule on this
year's dubs? Does even that address the problem of lower rated players
playing higher rated players in dubs? Should we handicap the dubs too?
Maybe use the highest player rating. This should have been hashed out
earlier, but we haven't started yet. If you have an opinion I'd really
like to hear from you.

I think using the highest rated player's rating for handicapping is
the most fair. It encourages the partner's ratings to be as close
together as possible which eliminates the problem we've had the last
two years.

Originally Posted by Sausage Fingers

My thinking on this year's dubs was will
the new format increase the number of players who show at each
event?

I agree. I really like the additional doubles and want it be fair to
the lower rated teams (use handicaps) and to make the
handicapping fair (use highest rated player).

Thanks for reading.