{"id":1551,"date":"2024-07-12T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T09:42:43","slug":"handicap-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Handicap Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Handicaps <\/strong>can be be used in competitions and singles leagues to apply a \u201cstart\u201d to players based upon ability, whicb is entered in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/?page_id=1266\">Entries\u00a0<\/a>screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a drop down box that allows you to choose your handicap method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-2.png 770w, https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-2-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-2-768x186.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Net Start<\/strong>\u00a0will calculate the difference between the two handicaps and apply a start based upon the difference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Start on Handicap<\/strong>s will set the starting score for each pler to be their assigned handicap<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Net Start Except When Negative<\/strong>&nbsp;will follow the same logic for Net Start unless one of the entries has a negative handicap, in which scenario it will Start on Handicaps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stoodlarke Handicap Algorithm&nbsp;<\/strong>will try and balance the handicaps so that someone starts on 0, unless there is a positive and a negative handicap playing each other\n<ul>\n<li>If handicaps are the same, start on scratch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a negative handicap plays a positive handicap, start on handicaps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If both handicaps are positive, advantaged player starts on difference<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the net handicap is a negative number, start the advantaged player with 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handicaps can be be used in competitions and singles leagues to apply a \u201cstart\u201d to players based upon ability, whicb is entered in the\u00a0Entries\u00a0screen. There is a drop down box that allows you to choose your handicap method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rackemapp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}