Category: APBAnalyses

I had a chance to watch a little bit of the RBC Heritage tournament on tv Friday. The blustery wind there reminded me of the APBA All-time Greats (ATG) tournament I have in progress. The first ATG round was played at Yatch Club (Harbour Town) with blustery wind and soft course conditions.  I thought it would […]

In a recent post, I looked at the relationship between Fairways Hit and Round Scores, using my Game Caddie Record Book (GCRB) dataset. I found a statistically significant -0.19 correlation, suggesting that hitting fairways off the tee is associated to some extent with better scores when playing by Master Game rules. However, the amount of […]

It would seem to be obvious that hitting fairways off the tee leads to lower scores, but what do the data say when it comes to APBA Golf? Is the game realistic enough to capture that aspect of real golf? I did an analysis of 1,054 rounds of APBA Golf, looking at the correlation between […]

Yesterday, I posted about the APBA ratings for the 2021 season player cards. One of the rating categories I discussed is Sand Points. In this post, we’ll look at some preliminary data to see if Sand Points make a difference in terms of sand saves or scoring.  Here’s what the distribution of Sand Points looks like […]

The first step in exploring the effect of APBA card ratings on performance is to look at the ratings themselves. This post examines ratings for the 2021 season. There are 80 players in that season set. Here is a summary of what those ratings look like numerically:  It probably makes sense to think of the […]

Yesterday, I uploaded the records in my APBA Golf database* in the form of an Excel file to the Downloads area of this site. I did this to give others a chance to explore questions they might have about how APBA golfers perform.  Several of the blog posts here are based on that dataset. I […]

A post on this blog by ishmail66 on the Tendencies of Today’s Bombers got me to thinking about how driving distances of recent APBA golfers compare to those from the past. While recent APBA season cards seem to have lower Average W’s and more Player Result Numbers (PRNs) of 31 or higher in the W […]

In a comment to my recent post “Are There Putting Patterns?” ishmail66 speculates that my APBA average putting scores (1.57/hole) may be slightly lower than those of real-life pros from the past couple of seasons (1.61/hole), because my dataset probably has quite a few All-Time Greats (ATG) included in it. He’s not wrong. The dataset […]

For some time, I have believed that par 3’s in APBA are more difficult to one-putt than par 4’s or par 5’s. I reasoned that it has to be harder to get the ball closer to the pin on a par 3, since there aren’t really any short approach shots involved (a few 100-yard par […]

[Ed. Note: This post by ishmail66 is in response to an earlier post, “Tendencies and Probabilities” by me.] Understanding the Left and Right tendencies of a player can really help hitting the smaller greens on some courses and getting it close to the pin on others. I’ve also noticed something else with the more recent […]