Re: ShopTalk: Tournament Pairings Help

[Ed Reeder]

Tom, Thanks!  That gives me some ideas. /Ed TOM FLANAGAN wrote: We average the handicaps. Suppose the avg. is 58. We then try to make each group handicap match close as possible to the average. It could turn out to be a 5 and 3 16's . . . or not. That's when judgement time comes. Of course this only applies if you're playing a 4-some event. But still, within groups we have team bets, Generally the high and low vs the 2 in the middle, or something like that. Again, we try to match up total handicap strokes. TFlan --- Ed Reeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm hoping that one of you smart guys can help me out. From time to time I participate in tournaments with other clubs and we create foursomes which usually consist of two players from one club and two players from the other club. At times the number of players on each side may be different, so instead of 2 from each side, it could be 3 and 1, or even 4 and 0. Right now we do this by hand, with no real guidance on how to fairly allocate the players. I'd like to have a way to automatically and fairly create foursomes. Though we typically have only two clubs to draw from, I could see that three or four could be a possibility. I've got a few questions: 1. Is there a formula for fairly creating the foursomes? 2. Is there a way to automate this in Excel, with the ability to draw players from 1 to 4 "pools" of players? 3. Is there a cheap software package that does this? Thx, /Ed