I do not understand WGR rating

[JosiaDB]

Now granted, I am not a golfer like you guys are and don't watch it.

But I just don't get how that WGR rating works.     On weeks that I think I have done well, it goes slightly down sometimes.   On weeks that I don't even make the cut,  it goes up.   

For the past six months, it has been creeping upwards slowly, though, over time.   I have been watching it, trying to  gauge my progress as I try to get better.   It goes up and down, but rarely over 30 pts.

This past week, I had one of my better tournaments.   I placed 13th, and was very happy!    I looked at my stats this morning, and my WGR dropped by 300!!!

So how does that work?   How does it go up when I do bad, and go down when I do good, and go down by the most in six months, when I do what I thought was one of my best showings in six months?

I don't get it.

[up mup kupen nup]

Jul 1, 2024 7:44:19 GMT -5 JosiaDB said:

This past week, I had one of my better tournaments.   I placed 13th, and was very happy!    I looked at my stats this morning, and my WGR dropped by 300!!!

So how does that work?   How does it go up when I do bad, and go down when I do good, and go down by the most in six months, when I do what I thought was one of my best showings in six months?

I don't get it.

Hi, I'm not sure if you're on Discord, but the question came up there as well. Doyley indicated that "WGR didn't run during the normal finalizing process - so likely the cause for the charts being wonky. Will hopefully correct itself next week."

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

[On3PmpWond3r]

WGR is based off of your last 40(I think) events. So let’s say 40 events ago you won your tournament, but this week you got T25. You’d lose the points for the win, and replace them with the points for a T25. Same goes the other way, maybe 40 events ago you missed the cut badly and lost points, but this event you MC but were close to the cut line, you’d likely still see an increase in points.
Hope this helps.

[JosiaDB]

Thank you both for the info and the explanation!   

I do have discord, but I rarely pay much attention to it.