What's the average handicap of players?

[<<] [>>] by Dave Kibble
7th October 2004 (Other News)

I had a quick look at the data in the CA database. There are 1510 current members who have a handicap recorded, their average handicap is 9.45, and the median is 9. Some of the handicaps are strange numbers, which is odd since people are invited on their subscription renewal to inform the office of their current handicap and changes should be reported by managers at tournaments, anyway, I report the unadulterated data first and an interpreted version second.

Handicap Number
-2.5 1
-2.0 12
-1.5 17
-1.0 33
-0.5 35
0 38
0.5 27
1 21
1.5 30
2 29
2.5 38
3 45
3.5 36
4 51
4.5 46
5 56
5.5 1 not a valid handicap
6 55
6.5 3 not a valid handicap
7 63
8 80
9 70
10 84
11 59
12 102
13 2 not a valid handicap
14 107
15 6 not a valid handicap
16 108
17 5 not a valid handicap
18 112
19 3 not a valid handicap
20 70
21 1 not a valid handicap
22 22
23 1 not a valid handicap
24 38
26 2 not a valid handicap
28 1 not a valid handicap

Moving people who have an invalid handicap upwards (e.g. 5.5 becomes 6): Handicap Number
-2.5 1
-2.0 12
-1.5 17
-1.0 33
-0.5 35
0 38
0.5 27
1 21
1.5 30
2 29
2.5 38
3 45
3.5 36
4 51
4.5 46
5 56
6 56
7 66
8 80
9 70
10 84
11 59
12 102
14 109
16 114
18 117
20 73
22 23
24 42

Crudely graphed (#=10):

# -2
## -1.5
### -1
### -0.5
#### 0
### 0.5
## 1
### 1.5
### 2
#### 2.5
##### 3
#### 3.5
##### 4
##### 4.5
###### 5
###### 6
####### 7
######## 8
####### 9
######## 10
###### 11
########## 12
########### 14
########### 16
############ 18
####### 20
## 22
#### 24