Handicaps for Cornhole

Scoreholio’s handicapping system is designed to level the playing field, giving every player or team a fair shot regardless of skill level.

Tutorial Video

🔢 Enable Handicaps

  1. Click Run a Tournament

  2. Click "Create New"

  3. Scroll down to "Enable Handicapping" and toggle the switch to turn it on.

  4. Choose your Handicap features

🎯 Handicap Options

Fine-tune how handicaps are calculated and applied in your tournament using these customizable options. Whether you're running a casual Switcholio or a high-stakes league, these settings help you dial in the balance between fairness and competitiveness.


⚙️ Handicap Max

What it does: Sets the maximum number of handicap points that can be applied to a player in any given game.

Example: If a player's calculated handicap is 12 and you set the max at 10, only 10 points will be applied.

This ensures no player gets an outsized advantage, even if there’s a large skill gap.


📊 Handicap Format

What it does: Determines which player stat is used to calculate head-to-head handicaps. Choose from four formats depending on how recent or dynamic you want the data to be:

30-Day PPR

  • Uses each player’s average Points Per Round (PPR) from the last 30 days.

  • 30 day ppr updates after every match is submitted.

120-Day PPR

  • Uses each player’s average PPR over the last 120 days.

  • 120 day ppr updates once daily at 2:00 AM PST.

Dynamic Round PPR

  • Adjusts handicaps after each round, based on a player's PPR within the current tournament.

  • Great for fast feedback and rewarding in-tournament improvement.

Dynamic Match PPR

  • Adjusts handicaps after each match, using only a player's performance in the current tournament.

  • A good option when you want adjustments to feel gradual but responsive.


🧮 Starting PPR (For Dynamic Modes)

What it does: When using Dynamic Round or Dynamic Match modes, players start the tournament with a baseline PPR of 0. This option lets you set a starting estimate based on historical data.

Choose to initialize a player’s starting handicap with:

  • Their 30-Day PPR

  • Their 120-Day PPR

This helps prevent early matches from being too skewed while allowing the handicap to adjust over time.


⚖️ Weighting

What it does: Determines how much of the calculated handicap is actually applied.

Example: A calculated handicap of 4 with 80% weighting means the player starts with a 3-point advantage.

This is a great way to ease into handicapping without giving full credit for the skill difference.

Viewing a Handicap

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