In our view, the type of miss often doesn’t give any further insight into what to focus on. We’ve found that dispersion allows coaches and players to quickly diagnose the root cause of the issue, leading to lower scores.

We’ve found that most players often have variable miss tendencies, i.e., left, right, short, and long. Multiple factors can often influence the miss tendency (e.g., flag position, wind direction, hazard, etc. The left and right miss also brings into question, miss left or right compared to what; the flag or intended target line.

In our experience, focusing on dispersion produces the most optimal way to measure and identify the underlying influencing factor that led to specific miss tendency/wider dispersion.

In addition to making it challenging to draw conclusions on player skills in the different categories, we’ve also found that compliance and data quality levels are reduced significantly when asking for additional data entry.

To conclude, adding additional categories to the data input process reduced compliance and accuracy of player shot ingestion and made it challenging for coaches and players to easily draw conclusions on player skills in the different categories.