Golf Contest 2008 - Kick off with Masters?

[dmehra]

Tiger Woods
Vijay Singh
Retief Goosen
Charles Howell III
Jose Maria Olazabal

Alternatives:
Phil Mickelson
Sergio Garcia
Mike Wier
Sean O'Hair
Jeev Milkha Singh

[kujo]

Thanks Jaydeep. Sorry, won't be participating as much this time around.  PM me your email address, if you want any of my excel files.

cheers
-kujo

[PKBasu]

Tiger Woods
Vijay Singh
Retief Goosen
Daniel Chopra
Jeev Milkha Singh

Alts
Phil Mickelson
Adam Scott
Andres Romero
Scott Verplank
Johnson Wagner

[SaniaFan]

Geoff Ogilvy
Vijay Singh
Hunter Mahan
Daniel Chopra
Jeev Milkha Singh

Alt:
Addres Romero
Bubba Watson

[jaydeep]

My picks for the Masters -

1. Phil Mickelson
2. Padraig Harrington
3. Mike Weir
4. J. B. Holmes
5. Fred Couples

[suresh]

Jaydeep,

You forgot to give your alternates.

Suresh

[jaydeep]

No need as my selection generally fight for bottom places in majors ...

So this time I avoided selecting posted players (by participants).

[PKBasu]

It's fun to be able to pick three Indian names among the likely winners of a major. Just the pleasure of doing that coloured my choices!

But good luck to Jeev Milkha Singh (pure Indian citizen), Daniel Chopra (half-Indian by parentage and surname) and Vijay Singh (Indian by heritage and name, and certainly quite Indian in the eyes of the original inhabitants of the island where he, his parents and grandparents were born).

[Red_Indian]

Vijay Singh
Sergio Garcia
Retief Goosen
Justin Leonard
Jeev Milkha Singh

Phil Mickelson
Rory Sabbatini
Daniel Chopra

[jaydeep]

Wow, great to see Kunal's list ...

[Kumar]

Jaydeep had a cracking second round of 72, While PKB had 64. Guys if you can check your individual scores to make sure that I calculated correctly(this was done manually, so lot of chance for error). And jaydeep has a big lead.

Totals after two rounds,

Kumar - 98 (3 players remaining)
Suresh - 92 (4 players remaining)
USAIndian - 90 (4)
Ajay - 86 (4)
Jaydeep - 118 (4)
Mehra - 96 (3)
Kunal - 104 (4)
PKB - 108 (4)
Saniafan - 86 (3)

[Kumar]

Ajay topped the 3rd round with 64, but PKB takes the lead.

Kumar - 142 (3 players remaining)
Suresh - 128 (4 players remaining)
USAIndian - 138 (4)
Ajay - 150 (4)
Jaydeep - 158 (4)
Mehra - 140 (3)
Kunal - 152 (4)
PKB - 164 (4)
Saniafan - 116 (3)

[dmehra]

Can someone explain the calculations for coming up with the numbers above?

[Kumar]

Please see Guest aka atithee's quote from last year,

From yahoo site (all blue text): A golfer can receive a maximum of 20 fantasy points in each round of a tournament. The golfer with the lowest real-life score in a round receives 20 points. Other golfers receive 2 fewer points for every stroke they finish behind the leader (e.g., a golfer 1 stroke back for the round receives 18 points, a golfer 2 strokes back gets 16. Golfers 10 or more strokes back receive 0 points).

You receive the total points earned by all active golfers on your team in each round provided that they haven't already been active in 10 tournaments (see the Maximum Starts section for more information).

You do not receive points for golfers in a non-activated (reserve) position in your lineup.

Additionally, while a golfer might win a tournament, they might not have the lowest score in the final round of play. As such, the tournament winner doesn't necessarily earn 20 points for the final round of play.

Bonus points are awarded for golfers placing in the top three at each tournament. First place golfers earn 20 bonus points, second place 10, and third place 5. To earn bonus points for your team, a golfer must be active for at least one round of the tournament. The golfer can be in a non-activated (reserve) position at the end of the tournament and still earn bonus points for your team.

If a tournament round is officially canceled, no team receives points for that round. All other scoring rules stay the same. If a round is delayed or postponed, no points are awarded until it is completed.
I got to run, but I advocated this format for our contest.  As a proposal, I will score the tournament based on these rules.  These calculations are done in a hurry and the final rounds are not complete for some players, but here is the standing after today.  I think you will find this scoring interesting as there is interest in every round and winner doesn't run away with the points as in our current scoring system.  FYI - Padraig has 20 points for today's round and the score of +2 and below gets zero points.  A score of E will get 4 points.  Please excuse any errors.  I will fix them once I put this into Excel.

[Kumar]

sORRy for the late update, guys. PKB wins the first tournament.

PKB - 204 (4)
Ajay - 194 (4)
Jaydeep - 194 (4)
Kunal - 180 (4)
Kumar - 178 (3 players remaining)
Mehra - 174 (3)
Suresh - 162 (4 players remaining)
USAIndian - 156(4)
Saniafan - 134 (3)