Respectfully, wondering what the point of the course fit tool is if it can only be viewed week of a tournament at that particular course? Any reason why it’s not just available for users to load any given players into any course at anytime?
The exact player adjustments are not given because we don’t want to provide another element of the player skill decomposition to the bookmakers before our model is posted.
Just checking, but you are aware that there is a dropdown on the left where you can select any course, right? Once you’ve used our site for a bit, I feel like you should be able to get the rough adjustments for a given player by looking at the course fit profile + the player’s profile. Here is TPC Twin Cities overlayed with Sedgefield:
Pretty obvious how fit adjustments will change this week relative to last week.
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Thanks for the response. I suppose I didn’t imagine the bookmakers really digging in with the tools on the site. I think they’re far more apt to just copy and/or adjust lines based on volume when DG posts odds. But I guess I wouldn’t put it past them.
Yeah, they probably wouldn’t be digging into specific pages, although I do think opening lines are much more in line with the DG rankings now (perhaps that is partly due to betting volume from previous weeks). So I do think they look at that.
Anyways, that was part of the rationale for why player lists aren’t available for all courses at all times. But I also just don’t find the player-specific adjustments to be that additive, unless you are looking to incorporate some exact values into a model of your own. I know for the typical user (based on emails and I what I hear on podcasts), they can glean the essentials of what a course demands and who it will favour just by looking through the course and player profiles. Plus when the course isn’t hosting the current week’s event there isn’t an obvious way to restrict the player list, so you end up displaying hundreds or thousands of players in a table.
The amount of value with CF and CH adjustments vs the Baseline value is a good example of this.
I think I said this a few months ago, but bigger CF adjustments seem to lend to more value on the board