Play the Card
When a player's opponent misses a week, the present player still earns points: their round is scored against their own average using the league's card table (a points table).
Play the Card ensures that players who show up every week are not penalized when their opponent is absent. It is completely separate from the absent player's miss points.
How It Works
- RoundBoss takes the present player's gross score and their at-the-time average (the average they carried into that week).
- Differential = gross score minus average, rounded down to a whole number. Example: 44 against an average of 42.6 is 1.4, so 1.
- The card table has one column per average range (9-hole default: Under 40, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, 55 and Over). The player's average picks the column.
- Walking the rows from the top (12 points) down, the player earns the points of the first row whose value in that column is at or above the differential. Blank cells are skipped.
- The points are capped at the league's per-match cap (default: 12).
Example (9-hole default table, average 42.6, "40 to 44" column): a 44 gives differential 1. Rows 12 (-4), 11 (-3), 10 (-2), 9 (-1) and 8 (0) are all below 1; row 7 has 1, so the player earns 7 points.
18-hole leagues use the same table over 18 holes: ranges Under 80, 80 to 89, 90 to 99, 100 to 109, 110 and Over, with every row's value doubled.
Required for Match Play and Team Match Play
Every match-play and team match-play league must have a missed-opponent rule: Play the Card (the default) or Use average for misses. Settings will not save with both off. New leagues start with Play the Card on and makeups off (makeup cap 0).
Setup
In Settings → Play the Card, keep the default table for your round length or edit the ranges and rows.
Play the Card is triggered automatically when a matchup is recorded with one player marked missed.
The present player's scores are entered (by the player or the manager) and RoundBoss does the card-table lookup automatically.
Team Match Play
In Team Match Play the same rule applies to each 1v1 pairing on its own. The team's week is the sum of its golfers' match points plus the sweep bonus, so:
- If one golfer on a team misses, only that pairing changes: their opponent plays the card against their own average, and every other pairing is played hole by hole as usual.
- If a whole team misses, every golfer on the other team plays the card.
- Each present golfer always plays against their own average. There is no single combined team average: the card table's columns are per-golfer average ranges.
When the Opponent Missed
The opponent who missed receives the league's flat miss points (default 0) and a Makeup Round the next time they play. With a makeup cap of 0 the makeup is recorded but earns no points. Only the first max misses per season misses (default 4) earn either; the 5th and later misses earn 0 points and no makeup.
Alternative: Use Average for Misses
If the league turns on Use average for misses in Scoring Configuration, Play the Card is replaced: the present player's score is compared against the absent player's rolling average as a virtual opponent (using the card table when one is configured), and the absent player always earns 0. If the absent player has no average yet, the present player falls back to the flat miss points.