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Post by b101 on Jul 31, 2021 4:49:22 GMT -5
Figure a number of people do something similar to this, but I thought I'd share the sheet I've come up with for pre-publish final checks. It's not exhaustive, but will ensure that you are able to quickly see whether various pinsets are balanced and that you haven't missed anything major. In terms of how to use it, I will first look to balance pins away from the course then have this open when doing final playtests and check everything per hole, putting the box in green when I'm happy it's done. Some are very quick checks, some take longer. As an example - this is how I'd note if greens are all fine, but I've missed some important planting. You'll also notice that I've got some pin variety issues with pin one (there will be others, I haven't checked this fully yet). 7 of the first 10 pins being on the right feels unbalanced, as does the final four all being left - I now need to think whether these are ok, or whether I need to change them. You don't need to go right, left, centre etc, because not all right pins will play the same, but being mindful of those sorts of patterns is very useful. You will also notice something immediately with pin 3. Even though I'm happy with the balance of R/L/C and F/C/B pins across the whole pinsets, where they occur in the round isn't balanced well enough yet. Green hole numbers denote par threes, orange are par fives. You want to balance these as their own subset so that pin 1 isn't always a front pin on the par threes etc. --- Link to the spreadsheet below. To adapt for your pins, just type in F, C, B / R, L, C to denote the locations and the formula will add it all up for you. It's relatively crude, but I've always found it flags a few things up. www.mediafire.com/file/3qjoi39y0kyqjnh/prepublishcheckingsheet.xlsx/file
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Post by Crazycanuck1985 on Jul 31, 2021 12:13:45 GMT -5
Since we're sharing, here's mine. Slightly less detailed then Ben's, but gets the job done.
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Post by TeeeJ9798 on Jul 31, 2021 12:59:01 GMT -5
I’ve been using like 6 post-its with similar categories as this. I’m not as organized as some apparently
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Post by aeastwood54 on Jul 31, 2021 15:13:54 GMT -5
I’ve been using like 6 post-its with similar categories as this. I’m not as organized as some apparently Designing on PS4 so I've a trusty pen and paper.
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Post by BaconJunkie1 on Jul 31, 2021 15:25:43 GMT -5
Thanks for the spreadsheet ... I've been keeping a To Do list on my works in MS Word but it gets added to a lot, the more I read / watch, the longer it gets.
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Post by richnufc99 on Aug 6, 2021 5:35:50 GMT -5
I have a similar spreadsheet for pin locations but it goes slightly further with the proportion of pins in each location so you can review whether you need less of pin 1 in the Front-Right position for example - this is in the Pins tab (on the link below) There is also a Par Distribution tab - on which you type in the yardages for each hole on each set of tees. You pre-set the yardage ranges in columns P to S and it reports back how many holes of each Par you have that are short medium or long. Helps you figure out if you have two many long par 4s for example. The other thing I did was a bit of an experiment around course naming and cos I had a bit of spare time in a hotel room last September. The namegen tab contains 6 columns of words. I broke down potential golf course names into 6 parts. Column A | Prefix | Royal, Northern, Grand, National etc | Columns B+C | Place name parts - col 1 first part, col 2 2nd | e.g. Liver and Pool,Man and Chester | Column D | Any kind of animal, bird, tree, colour, object | e.g. Cedar, Eagles, Golden | Column E | landforms, place etc | e.g. Pool, Marshes, Ranch etc | Column F | Terms to denote a golf course | E,g. Golf club, golf links, Golf Estate |
Then, in the names tab there are 10 panels with 5 entries, that are essentially random combinations of the word lists as described in the table. The reason there isn’t just one list, is that (as you know) golf courses sometimes are really long and mention the course name and where it is, some are just the place name and various combinations. So the header of each coloured panel tells you what the combination is (e.g, BC E F, or A D E F @ BC). You can then just browse the panels and see what pops up!… click in a blank cell, hit space bar and click to another cell and the whole thing will refresh and you have another set to look at. Some of the combos obviously work better, and it was done more as a challenge rather than to necessarily use the output… Anyway, all of this is at Google sheet. If you want to use it I’d suggest saving a copy, else someone may log in and overwrite yours. Be interested to hear any thoughts!
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