Category: APBAnalyses

By now, it should be obvious that I love the APBA Golf Master Game. It’s smart, it’s fun, it’s (mostly) realistic, and it lends itself to endless analysis and speculation. What more could you ask for in a board game? Well, here’s the beginning of my wish list. If APBA ever gets around to updating […]

OK, I suppose I should be clear about what I mean by “history.” There is real-life history, such as PGA records on putting. And then there is APBA history–more specifically my GCRB putting data (which represents only a tiny spec in the universe of APBA Golf that’s been played over the past 60 years or […]

I thought it might be fun to look back and see what was the worst round I’ve played since I began keeping APBA Golf statistics. Amazingly, it was with someone who currently has among the best short games in all of golf! It happened during the fourth round of my 2019 U.S. Open replay at […]

I am curious as to who putts the best among APBA golfers. While I have a fairly large dataset to work with (19,314 holes), most of the data in it consists of one or two rounds per golfer–not enough to draw meaningful conclusions from in terms of Putts per Round. When I looked at all […]

While golfers strive to make as many greens in regulation (GIR) as possible, does it affect their putting performance? Just because a golfer hits a green in regulation, there is no guarantee the ball will be close to the pin. There are three things I looked at: What’s the relationship between GIR’s and putting performance? […]

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 […]