Hello Ladies and Gentlemen
We had a talk at eh club the other day if we should implement some sort of handicap. This is purely for club based shooting (not competitions). The discipline we are talking about here is Olympic trap (so moderator please feel free to move this to the Trap forum, but this could be of other disciplines interests also).
We are not that many that shoot OT in the club, and the span of talent range from shooters that always shoot 23+ to people hovering around 13 to 15. Often shooters that are on par will shoot for small money ( we have a coin that roughly equates to 2,5£). But that will only be 1 vs 1. We would like to have the whole line in the pot, but understandebly it is not fun for the beginners and intermediates, they might just as well hand over the money. So we thought of some sort of handicap like golf. But how can we do it practcally. We thought of taking the persons average and subtract it from 25, and then have the number in the bank before first shot. Example 25-16,4, that shooter would have 8,6 targets hit before first shot.(Knowing we are not great scientists, we might just make it 8, so ones average will always be rounded up to the nex whole figure).
Will that be fair, or will it give the lesser average scores a clear advantage to win? No matter what handicap is, if a participants break 25 he will win, no matter handicaps.
Are there other ways to do this? Better ways?
And just to underline is just for the practice shoots, not competition or the like.
Lars
We had a talk at eh club the other day if we should implement some sort of handicap. This is purely for club based shooting (not competitions). The discipline we are talking about here is Olympic trap (so moderator please feel free to move this to the Trap forum, but this could be of other disciplines interests also).
We are not that many that shoot OT in the club, and the span of talent range from shooters that always shoot 23+ to people hovering around 13 to 15. Often shooters that are on par will shoot for small money ( we have a coin that roughly equates to 2,5£). But that will only be 1 vs 1. We would like to have the whole line in the pot, but understandebly it is not fun for the beginners and intermediates, they might just as well hand over the money. So we thought of some sort of handicap like golf. But how can we do it practcally. We thought of taking the persons average and subtract it from 25, and then have the number in the bank before first shot. Example 25-16,4, that shooter would have 8,6 targets hit before first shot.(Knowing we are not great scientists, we might just make it 8, so ones average will always be rounded up to the nex whole figure).
Will that be fair, or will it give the lesser average scores a clear advantage to win? No matter what handicap is, if a participants break 25 he will win, no matter handicaps.
Are there other ways to do this? Better ways?
And just to underline is just for the practice shoots, not competition or the like.
Lars
