I play 90% of my rounds at a par 70 course, but the scoring average is based on a par 72. Can you make it user selectable for par 70/71/72?

Also, when posting scores via android mobile app. I get a double score recorded after finishing my round. One score doesn't include #18, and the other does. I can close and reopen the app and it remains in the scoring section.

I agree, the average score stat is somewhat interesting, but if you play courses of different ratings, then it starts to become somewhat meaningless.

It would be good if the avg score somehow took the course rating into consideration (which should handle the lower pars too).

You'd have to call it something else. Avg score over rated par or something I guess.

For example, if a course has a rating of 70.2, then you play 95 on it. That would be 24.8 over par. Then average that value over time to see average gross score over par. Something like that. It might not be that simple, but that is the general idea.

alternatively, it could present the value as standardized par 72 gross score. So for example if the average is 21.3 over(taking into account the course ratings as described above), then the average gross score would be 72+21.3 = 93.3

also, personally, there is another avg stat I'd like to see in addition to that mentioned above, which is avg net over par. This would take the player's course handicap into consideration.

Our index excludes our worst 10 our of 20 last rounds. Basically the above would include those bad rounds, and we'd see essentially just how badly we tend to play when we aren't playing close to our index, while taking the rating/slope into consideration as well.

Then let's say my average net over par is +1.5, which says that including all my bad rounds and good rounds, factoring in course handicaps each time; over all, I end up net +1.5 over on average.

By knowing that, I can approach a course, and calculate my course handicap for it. let's say course handicap is 22 on a par 72 course with a rating of 72.2 I add 72.2+22+1.5 = 95.7, round up to 96 That becomes my status quo for how I've been playing past 20 games. If I play below 96 (on that course) I'm doing better than average and over 96 would be worse then average. An even 96 would be right on par for how I've been playing, on that particular course.

To me, this is the most interesting way to use our index to gauge how we're playing any particular round. It helps us to set expectations for ourselves that matches our current reality and the course we're playing on.

However, over time I don't expect this value to change much unless we become a more consistent player in general, in which case, the more consistent we are, the smaller it would become as an average. A large value would indicate big swings in our scoring and inconsistency, with bad games being REALLY bad.

The above statistic would basically provide a way to give a player a goal, the iphone app could provide a score goal, if our status quo for a given course based on our past 20 games, was say 96, as calculated above then it could display 95 as the goal. Any score of 95 or better would then be considered better than average for the given player on the given course, and reason to rejoice.

There might be a better way to do this by using differentials somehow, but include all past scores for a given period of time, either past 20 or this year or whatever, not just the best 10 past scores. Average differential.