You ask, the IT Nerd answers….Dan Mahar asked that I take a look at how the cross-flight play has been doing. A little history before getting into the stats. There was some talk about discounting the cross-flight matches point values over a concern that the Flight 3 golfers would be at a disadvantage. The IT Nerd ran the entire 2013 season through the 2014 scoring system and it was found that there was actually a slight advantage to the Flight 3 golfers, but it was minimal. Therefore, The Commish made the decision to keep all match scoring the same.
Below is the Flight by Flight comparison. How this reads is that Flight 1 golfers are 8-7-2 and are +23 against their Quota’s when playing Flight 2 golfers.
| Flight 1 | Flight 2 | Flight 3 | |
| Flight 1 | 8-7-2 (+23) | 6-8-4 (-14) | |
| Flight 2 | 7-8-2 (-23) | 8-8-1 (-7) | |
| Flight 3 | 8-6-4 (+14) | 8-8-1 (+7) |
You can see that Flight 3 is outperforming both Flight 1 and Flight 2 (+21). Flight 1 comes in second at +9, with Flight 2 taking a pounding at -30.
The above data has three anomalies in it, however. Connor (Flight 2, +6) beat T-Brd (Flight 1, -4) by 10 points, Dickie (Flight 1, +8) beat sub Steve Burt (Flight 2, -6) by 14, and Devin (Flight 1, +10) beat Gary Thompson (Flight 2, -3) by 13. When you remove these three data points, here’s the breakdown.
| Flight 1 | Flight 2 | Flight 3 | |
| Flight 1 | 6-6-2 (+9) | 6-8-4 (-14) | |
| Flight 2 | 6-6-2 (-9) | 8-8-1 (-7) | |
| Flight 3 | 8-6-4 (+14) | 8-8-1 (+7) |
With the anomalies removed, Flight 3 is unaffected (+21) but it expands its lead on Flight 1 (-5). Flight 2 still is bringing up the rear at -16.
So who’s kicking all this butt in Flight 3? It’s no shocker to see that 3 of the top 5 for cross flight play come from Flight 3. Bobby Mo at 3-0-0 (+13), Bill Kirkby at 3-0-0 (+8) and Dan Mahar at 2-0-1 (+6). From three guys, that’s a record of 8-0-1 (+27)….and we were worried about the Flight 3 guys?!?!
| Bob Moran | 3-0-0 (+13) |
| Bill Kirkby | 3-0-0 (+8) |
| Drew Prucha | 3-0-0 (+6) |
| Rick Fanto | 3-0-0 (+1) |
| Dan Mahar | 2-0-1 (+6) |
| Pat Donahue | 2-1-0 (+10) |
| Nick Wight | 2-1-0 (+6) |
| Connor Brown | 2-1-0 (+6) |
| Sean Mott | 2-1-0 (+3) |
| Dick Donegan | 1-1-1 (+7) |
| Dale Russell | 1-1-1 (+4) |
| Vinny Procopio | 1-1-1 (+3) |
| Jon Carroll | 1-1-1 (-2) |
| Tony Massa | 1-1-1 (-3) |
| Craig Hawkinson | 1-1-1 (-4) |
| TJ Donegan | 1-1-1 (-5) |
| Joe Donegan | 1-0-2 (-1) |
| Devin Carrigan | 1-1-0 (+6) |
| Art Brillanti | 1-1-0 (+5) |
| Bob Zaleski | 1-1-0 (+3) |
| Bill John | 1-1-0 (+2) |
| Steve Donegan | 1-1-0 (-2) |
| DJ Mahar | 1-1-0 (-) |
| Tom Phillips | 1-2-0 (+4) |
| Marty Donegan | 1-2-0 (+1) |
| Mike Carroll | 1-2-0 (-) |
| Matt Lochner | 1-2-0 (-3) |
| Denny Welch | 1-2-0 (-5) |
| Jim Morgan | 1-2-0 (-6) |
| Gary Antos | 0-0-1 (-1) |
| Jack Donegan | 0-1-1 (+1) |
| Tom Donegan | 0-2-1 (-) |
| Brian Thompson | 0-2-0 (-12) |
| Pat Cregg | 0-3-0 (+2) |
| Chris Donegan | 0-3-0 (-2) |
| Gary Thompson | 0-3-0 (-6) |
