That's not counting those who don't seem to have a handicap of any kind (1458 or nearly 50% of registered NSW members!).
Do you mean 1,458 do not have a GC handicap or do you mean they do not have an AC or GC handicap?
As for the numbers you've quoted for GC divisions. Call me pedantic but the numbers alone do not prove there is a problem at either end of the spectrum similar to the quoted UK problem. To be clear I'm not saying there isn't a problem, nor would I know as AC is my game. However in my experience in AC & GC it's clear there will be more players in the divisions 2 & 3 vs 1.
Tim
Sent from my iPhone. My right thumb will be aching now.
On 28/03/2014, at 21:14, Wal Mills <walm@...> wrote:
This list is too quiet.
The Croquet
Association (UK) has extended the lower end
GC handicaps to -3 reasoning that, quote:-
"It has been obvious for some time that the lower end of the
GC Handicap scale was far too cramped with players of a very
wide range of playing abilities all sharing a 0 handicap."
While there doesn't seem to be statistics
for all of Australia, for NSW at least,
this very issue is at the other
end of the scale.
The latest statistics for NSW GC show
as at March 2014
100 players in Division 1 (0 to 4 H/C) (6.5%)
523 Division 2 (5 to 8 H/C) (34.1%)
912 Division 3 (9 to 12 H/C)
(59.4%)
That's not counting those who
don't seem to have a handicap of any kind (1458
or nearly 50% of registered NSW members!).
I don't
understand why the higher handicap players
are penalised in the
current system (with H/C range and Index) and why any
discussion is at the lower H/C end.
Unfortunately
my submission to the ACA on this
doesn't seem to have been loud enough.
