In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Jean-Pierre Vidal wrote:
>> What is the definition of a beginner?
>> I think anybody is a beginner the first time (s)he plays golf.
>> Is this correct?
>
> Well, I suppose it is up to the tournament host.
> It will be interesting to see what Eugene does for
> the Dutch Masters.
Hehe, since I'm dutch too (even though I post from a belgian address), in
a sense we already had a "Dutch Open".
>
> Since I have never actually met anyone on the fwp
> mailing list, it is a bit hard for me to judge.
> So, I said you are a beginner if you claim to be one and
> such a claim does not generate *mad cackles* from the list.
I tend to define a golf beginner as
"is not yet very familiar with the classic perl golf tricks".
If i see someone using -p }{ and $; to save a space, I don't really
consider him a beginner.
>
> I was happy to allow people who were classified as a beginner
> in previous games to continue on as a beginner in my game.
> It seems a little harsh to ban Bill Jones, for example, from
> competing as a beginner in the next game, just because he
> has competed in this one.
>
Maybe any beginners that are "close enough" to the final winner should be
promoted automatically.
In fact, maybe we should drop the whole expert/beginner thing and have a
PGA rating.
Something like: in one game the winner gets 100 points, others get one
less for each stroke worse (cut of at 0)
new_rating = (9 * old_rating + game_score)/10
(possibly weighted depending on the game)
not playing is -2, unless you host the game.
Everybody starts at 75, you can't go below 0
