GAME GOLF's New Profile Insights Page

[iacas]

Somewhat recently GAME GOLF changed up the info you see when you click "Insights."

http://www.gamegolf.com/insights

What used to be the old view:

Now requires you to click "View Insights." Instead you see a view like this:

This is a little confusing at first, but here's your quickie guide to how this works:

1. This is where you set up your comparison. You can compare yourself to yourself or to other golfers, like scratch golfers or 15 handicappers. You can compare your last round, your last 5, 10, etc. You can narrow it down to a date range, and do all sorts of other things.
2. These numbers are the somewhat confusing part. The smaller grey number is the second thing, the "base" against which you are comparing yourself. In this image, the smaller grey number is the "3 Rounds" number - I lost 0.64 strokes off the tee, gained -0.47, -0.77, and -0.52 strokes in the other areas (presumably against a scratch golfer). So the grey numbers are the standard for comparison, and then the white numbers with the arrows are what you're comparing: in this case, the "Last Round." You can see I improved to saving -0.19 strokes off the tee, and that is a positive trend, so it's got a downward green arrow. I previously saved -0.77 strokes with my short game, but only managed -0.57 the last time, so even though it's still negative (a gain), I've trended negatively so I get a red upward arrow.
3. These are where the grey and white numbers (with red or green arrows) show up in a bar chart form. Simply that. The grey numbers above are represented by the grey bars. The white numbers are represented by the green or red bars that correspond to a green or red arrow.

So that's the top part. Below that, we get some interesting grids and graphics:

This section's a bit easier to digest. The blue numbers correspond to the blue shapes, the grey to the grey. Pretty straightforward.

Unfortunately some of my feedback has yet to be incorporated. See the "0%" in the middle graphic? Is this because I missed 6 greens from which I had a 101-150-yard shot? Or maybe I had 0 approach shots from that distance? Maybe I was 0-for-1?

GAME GOLF should add (the sooner the better!) some actual data here. 0% (0/0) would concern me a lot less (and 0% (0/6) would concern me a lot more!) than just saying "0%".

Scrolling down we see some more relatively easy-to-understand graphs, that also have some similar flaws:

4. The new Notes area is pretty nice. You can add time-stamped notes that remind you when you put that new driver into play, when you began working on your hips not swaying backward, etc.
5. 254 yards or 257, which is it? Well, I hit a hybrid 236 yards and a 3-wood 253 yards, so both are correct. But I can see how this might confuse some people, and honestly… well, I'm not entirely sure of the validity of the stat, but it's easily ignored if you don't value it. There are going to be times when you play a soggy course and hit a bunch of drivers that plug on landing, and other times when you hit a bunch of hybrids off the tee but get roll out. Is there more important information that could go there? Related to "Off the Tee"? I guess not.
6. Again, hopefully sooner rather than later we'll get some numbers here rather than just percentages. I happen to remember that I played 12 holes my last "round" so the 75% number is easy to figure out - I missed three greens. But did I get up and down 1 out of 1 times, and fail to get a sand save 2/2 times for my 0%, or was I never in a bunker and scrambled 3/3 times? The numbers don't tell me… But it would be so easy for them to say it. Just add "(3/3)" beneath the "100%" or "(0/0)" beneath the 0%.

So, I hope that helps. Again, to visit this area on your own account, visit http://www.gamegolf.com/insights.

P.S. One last note…Clicking the right arrow on a few of the regions takes you to the appropriate "old" screen that you're used to.

[Club Rat]

I like the new features, it would be great if users had the ability to change the back round shades/colors of the graphs.
I really like the comparison selections which give the user options in comparing various rounds or single rounds. 

[dennyjones]

8 hours ago, Club Rat said:

 

I like the new features, it would be great if users had the ability to change the back round shades/colors of the graphs.
I really like the comparison selections which give the user options in comparing various rounds or single rounds. 

 

+1

[ZappyAd]

Took a while to understand that I was comparing two things rather than just one thing to a benchmark (I was looking at last 3 rounds against last 5 rounds for a while and the numbers confused me!).  Also which one is blue and which is grey (adding a color key to the first panel would help with that).  But overall I quite like it.

I'd also like to see some of the actual shot numbers beneath the percentages (maybe a toggle to switch between).  

@iacasI noticed that on my stats page off the tee the scratch golfer is 53%:24%:21% - so that means missing left more than hitting the fairway?  I thought this might be a bug but looking at your last 3 rounds stats you have a similar pattern.  If you look at all your rounds do you still have that pattern?  I am just surprised if that means a scratch golfer is only hitting fairway 24% of the time.

[iacas]

4 hours ago, ZappyAd said:

Took a while to understand that I was comparing two things rather than just one thing to a benchmark (I was looking at last 3 rounds against last 5 rounds for a while and the numbers confused me!).  Also which one is blue and which is grey (adding a color key to the first panel would help with that).

Which is blue and which is grey is explained above, and… there is a color key. In my images, "last round" is blue and corresponds to the blue bars. Same for grey.

4 hours ago, ZappyAd said:

I'd also like to see some of the actual shot numbers beneath the percentages (maybe a toggle to switch between).  

I noted that in the other thread, and had suggested it to them. Actually, sorry, I noted it in this topic, in the first post. Yes, that would be nice.

4 hours ago, ZappyAd said:

I noticed that on my stats page off the tee the scratch golfer is 53%:24%:21% - so that means missing left more than hitting the fairway?  I thought this might be a bug but looking at your last 3 rounds stats you have a similar pattern.  If you look at all your rounds do you still have that pattern?  I am just surprised if that means a scratch golfer is only hitting fairway 24% of the time.

I get the same sort of information. I'll ask them about it. It wouldn't surprise me, but 24% seems a little low, yeah.

[coachjimsc]

27 minutes ago, iacas said:

I get the same sort of information. I'll ask them about it. It wouldn't surprise me, but 24% seems a little low, yeah.

The Benchmark stratch numbers don't match up with the new insight numbers.

Still like that feature though.

[iacas]

5 minutes ago, coachjimsc said:

The Benchmark stratch numbers don't match up with the new insight numbers.

Still like that feature though.

Hmmm, the 53% is there, though. Maybe they actually mean fairway 53%, left 24%, right 21%? (Which still isn't 100%.)

[Club Rat]

Can the "Bench Mark" be adjusted?
 

[iacas]

9 minutes ago, Club Rat said:

Can the "Bench Mark" be adjusted?

Yes.

[cutchemist42]

I like it!

[iacas]

10 hours ago, iacas said:

Hmmm, the 53% is there, though. Maybe they actually mean fairway 53%, left 24%, right 21%? (Which still isn't 100%.)

This has been fixed.

53% is hitting the fairway, with 21% left and 24% right.

[JonMA1]

Thanks for explaining this @iacas. It would have taken me some time to understand some of this on my own.

[Jeremie Boop]

I actually like this much better than the old way.

[RFKFREAK]

I haven't explored it much but it seems pretty cool.