DEV DIARY - TELEMETRY PART 2

hbdeveloper
On April 3, 2014

The second part in the Telemetry Development Diary entries demonstrates, using the data from the Closed Beta 3 build, the next level of analytics that The Golf Club is capable of tracking including Club Head Speed, Carry Distances, Swing Accuracy and Longest Putts Holed.

[Note that most of the tables are scrollable but we would still recommend going landscape on your phones to avoid the columns bunching up too much. Also, we have split all the telemetry into 3 pages to provide some break points from the onslaught of data.]

CLOSED BETA BUILD 3

The Closed Beta build 3 was a success for the development team. We made some key changes to the gameplay that seem to have been well received and moved things closer to one of the key goals of the game – making a golf game that is straightforward to play but difficult to master. The basics must be fun and intuitive. We want everyone to be able to pick up the game and instantly be able to hit the ball. However, we also want the best scorers to truly be the best players. This comes from being able to understand the game of golf, understanding its strategies and an ability to read courses. During development, eliminating the swing gauge made a very big difference to the sense of achievement gained from playing a good shot. Now, that has been furthered by removing the shot marker. Removing that precision guide now forces the player to think more about the next shot and generally makes the game more challenging without making it harder to participate and this, we feel, has been borne out by the telemetry.

We asked the Closed Beta players to put in as many rounds on specific courses as they could over the weekend to enable us to get some good coverage of Build 3 with the telemetry tools. The courses were Knoll Down Golf Club, Somerton Park, Weldwood Country Club and Pinehurst River. Congratulations to Closed Beta participant jsgregg for bagging the only Hole in One, on the 17th at Somerton Park, through the 116 rounds.

GRAND TOTALS (SCROLLABLE)

Here are the overall totals:

Rounds	Avg Score	Best Score	FIR%	GIR%	Avg Putts Per Round	Pars	Birdies	Eagles	Hole in One	Bogies	Double Bogies	Other	Avg Drive Distance (Yards)	Longest Hole out (Yards)	Longest Holed Putt (ft)	Bunkers Hit	Save%
116	74.43	62	77%	58%	29	1011	494	15	1	409	114	45	279.43	190.35	41.10	380	56%

STATISTICS PER COURSE (scrollable)

Following on from the overall totals, here are the totals per course. There are many more categories this time but the basic ones can still be directly compared to the figures from the Telemetry Part 1 post:

Course	Rounds	Avg Score	Best Score	FIR%	GIR%	Avg Putts Per Round	Pars	Birdies	Eagles	Hole in One	Bogies	Double Bogies	Other	Avg Drive Distance (Yards)	Longest Hole-Out (Yards)	Longest Holed Putt (Ft)	Bunkers Hit	Saves%
KNOLL DOWN	34	78.4	66	81%	54%	31.9	300	94	4	0	143	51	20	279	190	33	131	47%
PINEHURST RIVER	21	74.3	65	79%	62%	30.9	162	98	2	0	90	19	7	285	36	39	54	56%
SOMERTON PARK	37	72.7	62	69%	59%	26.9	309	194	6	1	114	25	18	277	142	27	115	57%
WELDWOOD	24	71.4	66	80%	60%	27.4	240	108	3	0	62	19	0	279	130	42	80	68%

THE TOP 10 LONGEST DRIVES

Whilst Lee Trevino doesn’t really like the way the game has come to cater to big hitters we all still love to know just who has smashed it the furthest so here is a table with the longest drives from Build 3:

RANK	USER	DISTANCE (yds)
1	vsi65	343.97
2	HBjer	341.55
3	Pulus	340.91
4	@[email protected]	327.35
5	JohnRC	325.97
6	Seamount4Life	325.45
7	Grim	322.12
8	HalkeFralg79	319.45
9	Exyt	316.28
10	jayadub	315.64

STATISTICS PER USER (scrollable)

Here are the statistics for every Closed Beta user that played a full round on the requested courses in Build 3.

Username	Rounds Played	Avg Score	Best Score	FIR%	GIR%	Avg Putts Per Round	Pars	Birdies	Eagles	Hole in One	Bogies	Double Bogies	Other	Avg Drive Distance (Yards)	Longest Hole-Out (Yards)	Longest Holed Putt (Feet)	Bunkers Hit	Save%
@[email protected]	6	70.83	68	89%	63%	27	57	31	0	0	16	4	0	275.38	0	21	23	52%
booterboy	2	85.00	81	46%	42%	31	15	3	0	0	13	2	3	267.61	8.87	24	4	50%
Dazmaniac	1	66.00	66	71%	72%	26	10	7	0	0	1	0	0	267.49	0	24	3	67%
Exyt	6	76.83	70	67%	56%	32	52	20	0	0	27	6	3	280.31	8.94	26	23	61%
Ganjatron	1	100.00	100	64%	44%	52	5	0	0	0	4	5	4	278.14	0	11	2	0%
GI_Joe65	5	76.80	73	70%	52%	29	43	18	0	0	18	9	2	271.74	16.22	19	17	47%
Grim	1	89.00	89	50%	39%	39	5	2	0	0	6	4	1	288.79	0	16	6	16%
HalkeFralg79	6	73.50	70	76%	53%	28	53	26	0	0	23	6	0	280.20	8.06	23	27	70%
HBjer	13	70.08	64	77%	61%	26	125	68	2	0	34	4	1	282.03	16.73	22	39	79%
Huckleberry	5	79.40	75	84%	60%	34	52	9	0	0	18	6	5	273.23	9.150	10	14	71%
JaguarUSF	9	74.00	69	70%	53%	28	87	35	0	0	31	6	3	273.69	10.01	13	31	71%
jayadub	2	89.00	86	71%	22%	32	11	1	0	0	16	6	2	270.14	5.33	11	17	24%
JohnRC	6	75.83	69	81%	62%	31	47	25	1	0	24	8	3	277.65	37.53	23	17	41%
jsgregg	3	92.67	84	33%	26%	32	15	5	1	1	13	11	9	262.56	142.94	24	10	30%
King Javo	3	74.00	69	83%	65%	30	31	8	1	0	12	2	0	276.89	16.39	12	6	50%
King Kyne	6	82.67	74	80%	38%	33	42	8	0	0	44	14	0	269.25	0	20	21	33%
Pulus	12	70.33	65	83%	65%	27	115	58	4	0	32	7	0	289.94	190.35	39	44	50%
Seamount4Life	14	70.57	62	87%	65%	27	119	81	2	0	40	7	3	272.09	36.18	41	33	60%
TeoKnight	1	90.00	90	43%	44%	35	6	1	1	0	5	2	3	269.31	13.14	11	6	16%
vsi65	14	69.50	65	83%	71%	27	121	88	3	0	32	5	3	298.31	130.85	22	37	62%

On the next page we go into more detail about each round a user played including introducing the Club Head Speed and Swing Accuracy telemetry as well as Drive Carry Distance and Average Drive Distance.

On page 3 we delve deeper into the telemetry per course by displaying the stats for each hole across all the rounds played.

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