PDGA Ratings Breakdown

[ERicJ]

I pulled the data from the PDGA member database and did some number crunching. The table below includes all 11,203 players with player ratings in the database as of the Nov'08 update. There is no breakout by age or gender, strictly ratings.

It's interesting to see that while the Mean and Median for MA1 and MA2 are pretty well centered at the midpoint, the MA3 group is top heavy.

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|       |  Player   | Number |        |      |      |       |
|       |  Rating   | Mem-   |        | Med- |      |       |
| Class |  Min-Max  | bers   |   Mean | ian  | Mode | StDev |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   All |  114-1041 |  11203 |  895.8 |  908 |  918 | 69.01 |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   MA4 |  114- 849 |   2088 |  787.0 |  810 |  837 | 71.01 |
|   MA3 |  850- 899 |   2823 |  878.0 |  880 |  898 | 14.09 |
|   MA2 |  900- 934 |   2983 |  917.5 |  918 |  918 |  9.87 |
|  ~MA1 |  935- 969 |   2383 |  950.2 |  949 |  938 |  9.79 |
|  ~MPO |  970-1041 |    926 |  985.9 |  983 |  970 | 13.48 |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
| 1000+ | 1000-1041 |    148 | 1010.3 | 1008 | 1005 |  9.64 |
`-----------------------------------------------------------'

ERic

[scoot_er]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

I pulled the data from the PDGA member database and did some number crunching. The table below includes all 11,203 players with player ratings in the database as of the Nov'08 update. There is no breakout by age or gender, strictly ratings.

It's interesting to see that while the Mean and Median for MA1 and MA2 are pretty well centered at the midpoint, the MA3 group is top heavy.

.-----------------------------------------------------------.
|       |  Player   | Number |        |      |      |       |
|       |  Rating   | Mem-   |        | Med- |      |       |
| Class |  Min-Max  | bers   |   Mean | ian  | Mode | StDev |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   All |  114-1041 |  11203 |  895.8 |  908 |  918 | 69.01 |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   MA4 |  114- 849 |   2088 |  787.0 |  810 |  837 | 71.01 |
|   MA3 |  850- 899 |   2823 |  878.0 |  880 |  898 | 14.09 |
|   MA2 |  900- 934 |   2983 |  917.5 |  918 |  918 |  9.87 |
|  ~MA1 |  935- 969 |   2383 |  950.2 |  949 |  938 |  9.79 |
|  ~MPO |  970-1041 |    926 |  985.9 |  983 |  970 | 13.48 |
|-------|-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
| 1000+ | 1000-1041 |    148 | 1010.3 | 1008 | 1005 |  9.64 |
`-----------------------------------------------------------'

ERic

So that is based only on ratings so many Pro players may be excluded as they are rated sub 970 and/or play in other Pro classes. Also the bagger AMs are shown to be pros?

[ERicJ]

Originally Posted by scoot_er

So that is based only on ratings so many Pro players may be excluded as they are rated sub 970 and/or play in other Pro classes. Also the bagger AMs are shown to be pros?

This is everybody in the PDGA with an active rating. I wanted to break down the ratings into groups so I used the MPO/MA# splits for convenience. It's arbitrary. E.g. there may be players that play exclusively MPM who are rated 920, they showed up in my MA2 grouping. Like I said, this is based only on PDGA Player Rating. That's why I used the "~" prefacing MA1 and MPO.

Perhaps this is more accurate:

.---------------------------------------------------.
|  Player   | Number |        |      |      |       |
|  Rating   | Mem-   |        | Med- |      |       |
|  Min-Max  | bers   |   Mean | ian  | Mode | StDev |
|-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|  114-1041 |  11203 |  895.8 |  908 |  918 | 69.01 |
|-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|  114- 849 |   2088 |  787.0 |  810 |  837 | 71.01 |
|  850- 899 |   2823 |  878.0 |  880 |  898 | 14.09 |
|  900- 934 |   2983 |  917.5 |  918 |  918 |  9.87 |
|  935- 969 |   2383 |  950.2 |  949 |  938 |  9.79 |
|  970-1041 |    926 |  985.9 |  983 |  970 | 13.48 |
|-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
| 1000-1041 |    148 | 1010.3 | 1008 | 1005 |  9.64 |
`---------------------------------------------------'

[ERicJ]

...and yes, there really is someone with a rating of 114.

[Suemac]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

...and yes, there really is someone with a rating of 114.

ERic.....sorry you had to talk about your rating! j/k LOL

[tarazarr]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

...and yes, there really is someone with a rating of 114.

Just hang in there brother....you'll get better practice, practice, practice

[Miller]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

I pulled the data from the PDGA member database and did some number crunching. The table below includes all 11,203 players with player ratings in the database as of the Nov'08 update. There is no breakout by age or gender, strictly ratings.

It's interesting to see that while the Mean and Median for MA1 and MA2 are pretty well centered at the midpoint, the MA3 group is top heavy.

.-----------------------------------------------------------.
|       |  Player   | Number |        |      |      |       |
|       |  Rating   | Mem-   |        | Med- |      |       |
| Class |  Min-Max  | bers   |   Mean | ian  | Mode | StDev |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   All |  114-1041 |  11203 |  895.8 |  908 |  918 | 69.01 |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
|   MA4 |  114- 849 |   2088 |  787.0 |  810 |  837 | 71.01 |
|   MA3 |  850- 899 |   2823 |  878.0 |  880 |  898 | 14.09 |
|   MA2 |  900- 934 |   2983 |  917.5 |  918 |  918 |  9.87 |
|  ~MA1 |  935- 969 |   2383 |  950.2 |  949 |  938 |  9.79 |
|  ~MPO |  970-1041 |    926 |  985.9 |  983 |  970 | 13.48 |
|-------+-----------+--------+--------+------+------+-------|
| 1000+ | 1000-1041 |    148 | 1010.3 | 1008 | 1005 |  9.64 |
`-----------------------------------------------------------'

ERic

Don't you mean that the MA4 group is top heavy. But if you look at their standard deviation (a measure of how much the ratings are spread out) you can see that the MA4 group is the most varied group by far. Makes sense though since it is the catch-all group.

[tarazarr]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

...and yes, im one with a rating of 114.

EricJ - I took the liberty of condensing your qoute to "just the essentials"

[tarazarr]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

...and yes, really is me with a rating of 114.

and once more..condensed to "just the essentials"

[ERicJ]

Originally Posted by Miller

Don't you mean that the MA4 group is top heavy. But if you look at their standard deviation (a measure of how much the ratings are spread out) you can see that the MA4 group is the most varied group by far. Makes sense though since it is the catch-all group.

No, I meant MA3 is top heavy. Since it has a "normal" upper and lower limit on the range I expected it to look closer to "MA1" and "MA2". Your right that the "MA4" group will be skewed because it has no artificial lower limit set.

I guess personally I was surprised at how high the overall Mean and Median were. I expected there to be more "Rec" type players than those of advanced skill levels. I thought it was surprisingly well distributed. Possibly due to players of lesser skill not actually joining the PDGA until they get "good"?

ERic