Fantasy League 2015 - Winter/Spring Session - Event #08

Fantasy League 2015 - Winter/Spring Session - Event #08

Arnold Palmer Invitational

Mar 19 - Mar 22 ___ Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida, USA

Tournament value: Weighted 1

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Leaderboard – Final Round

Pos. Name ____________ Cuts _______ Rd1 ___ Rd2 ____ Rd3 ___ Rd4 __ Finish __ Total

1. Beninho ___________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____  20 ____ 130 _____ 230

2. McLaren ___________ 50 (8/9) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____  05 _____ 80 _____ 195

3. 1GrumpyGolfer _____ 50 (8/9) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 50 ____  05 _____ 65 _____ 190

4. BlueCoverman ______ 40 (7/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 50 ____  05 _____ 75 _____ 180

5. I'm Never Wrong ___ 40 (7/9) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____  00 _____ 75 _____ 175

6. TheCleaver ________ 40 (7/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____  05 _____ 70 _____ 165

7. Davie _____________ 50 (8/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 30 ____  10 _____ 60 _____ 160

7. Pedro _____________ 40 (7/9) ____ 20 ____ 00 ____ 40 ____  05 _____ 55 _____ 160

9. Incontinentia _____ 45 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  00 _____ 60 _____ 125

9. Redrage ___________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  00 _____ 65 _____ 125

11. CJB ______________ 30 (6/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  05 _____ 55 _____ 120

12. Kouchi ___________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  05 _____ 50 _____ 115

12. Kwinigolfer ______ 45 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  05 _____ 45 _____ 115

14. Barragan _________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  05 _____ 40 ______ 95

15. EmmDee57__________ 40 (6/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 20 ______ 70

16. Sand _____________ 30 (5/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 25 ______ 65

16. SetupDetermines __ 30 (5/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 25 ______ 65

16. Super_Realist ____ 15 (3/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 20 ____  00 _____ 20 ______ 65

19. Boyhyde __________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 05 ______ 55

19. LadyPutt _________ 25 (5/9) ____ 10 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 10 ______ 55

21. Hibbz ____________ 30 (6/9) ____ 00 ____ 10 ____ 00 ____  00 _____ 10 ______ 50

21. SirBenson ________ 40 (7/9) ____ 00 ____ 00 ____ 10 ____  00 _____ 00 ______ 50  

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The old 1-2 punch from Beninho saw him storm the leaderboard and condemn 1GrumpyGolfer to follow in the footsteps of third round leaders on the PGA Tour.  Beninho had five picks score finish points and added the two low round shooters to put the icing on the cake.  McLaren also had five picks score points but could only muster a worst round shooter.  This was enough to sneak past 1GrumpyGolfer who had just three picks score points.  BlueCoverman, I'm Never Wrong, and TheCleaver all had four picks score points and they rounded out the next three spots on the leaderboard and, in that order too.  Davie, Incontinentia, and RedRage all had three picks score points.  Pedro had just two but it was enough to secure a top 10 finish.  Sand also had three score points but they weren't of the same quality.  CJB, EmmDee57, Hibbz, Kouchi, Kwinigolfer, SetupDetermines, and Super_Realist all had two picks of varying quality score points.  Barragan, Boyhyde, and LadyPutt each had one pick score points.  The picks that played all four rounds for SirBenson were in midtable obscurity but that doesn't score any points.

Matt Every shot 66 winning the tournament by birdieing the last.  Zach Johnson also shot 66 but dropped shots on his last two holes after holing out for albatross on the par 5 16th.  Beninho had both of these.  Keegan Bradley and Cheeson Hadley finished badly with 77s.  They were picked by a bunch of Fantasy Leaguers but Davie should get kudos or commiserations for picking both of them.  See below for the full list.  Freddie Jacobson finished in last place at +3.  No one picked him.

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Final Round Low Round (10 points)
Matt Every -6
1. Beninho

Final Round Low Round (10 points)
Zach Johnson -6
1. Beninho

Final Round Worse Round (5 points)
Keegan Bradley +5
1. 1GrumpyGolfer
2. Barragan
3. BlueCoverman
4. CJB
5. Davie
6. Kouchi
7. Kwinigolfer
8. Pedro

Final Round Worse Round (5 points)
Cheeson Hadley +5
1. Davie
2. McLaren
3. TheCleaver

Last Place (5 points)
Freddie Jacobson +3
1. None

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The final event of the Florida swing sees the Tour pay homage to Arnold Palmer at his winter home in Orlando, Florida.  Arnie has invited friends, family, and some old timer(s) to join him for his little shindig.  In all eight former champions are in attendance with Matt Every returning to defend his crown.  All four international winners are taking part with Ernie Els the only one of the four to win more than one.  Rod Pampling, Vijay Singh, and most recently Martin Laird are the other three.  Tim Herron, Chad Campbell, and Robert Gamez are the other three former champions.

Top 5 is in action, sorry not Patrick Reed, I meant the top 5 in the World are all playing. They're the only top tenners but it's still a very reasonable field with just over half of the top 50 playing.  Eight time winner Tiger Woods is missing just his third Arnold Palmer Invitational.  88 players are providing value to the OWGR points on offer for this event, for more detail see the OWGR threads that GPB, Robopz, et al contribute to.  

There are three Categories where you will need pick three players, plus reserve, from each one.  There are bonus points available if you get all of your picks through in any category.  Get all 9 picks through and you get an even bigger bonus.  It's all way down at the bottom in the scoring section if you are interested.

This is a full field with cut event, cut points will be available; see above.

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Everyone please notify others of changes in field before tournament starts and invalid or incomplete picks from participants.

Rankings based on the Official World Golf Ranking – March 16th 2014:

CATEGORY A

Rory McIlroy 1
Bubba Watson 2
Henrik Stenson 3
Adam Scott 4
Jason Day 5
Rickie Fowler 11
Hideki Matsuyama 16
Billy Horschel 17
Brooks Koepka 18
J.B. Holmes 20
Graeme McDowell 22
Chris Kirk 24
Kevin Na 25
Zach Johnson 27

CATEGORY B

Hunter Mahan 31
Ian Poulter 32
Brandt Snedeker 35
Keegan Bradley 36
Louis Oosthuizen 38
Bernd Wiesberger 40
Branden Grace 42
Webb Simpson 43
Shane Lowry 44
Danny Willett 45
Paul Casey 46
Gary Woodland 49
Harris English 52
Alexander Levy 53
Marc Leishman 56
Russell Henley 57
John Senden 61
Graham DeLaet 63
Francesco Molinari 64
Kevin Streelman 70
Daniel Berger 72
Ben Martin 73
Russell Knox 76
Matt Jones 78
Sang-moon Bae 79
Padraig Harrington 80
Robert Streb 81
Justin Thomas 83
Ernie Els 85
Brian Harman 86
Angel Cabrera 92
Shawn Stefani 95
Matt Every 96
Scott Stallings 98
Brendan Steele 101
Steven Bowditch 103
Freddie Jacobson 105
Seung-Yul Noh 107
George McNeill 110
Charles Howell-III 111
Erik Compton 112
Martin Laird 118
Daniel Summerhays 125
Carlos Ortiz 126
Boo Weekley 127
Richard Sterne 130
Ryo Ishikawa 132
Kevin Chappell 133
Camilo Villegas 135
K.J. Choi 136
Morgan Hoffmann 137
Kiradech Aphibarnrat 138

CATEGORY C

Chris Stroud 141
Chesson Hadley 144
Jason Kokrak 147
William McGirt 149
Jason Bohn 152
Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 153
Zac Blair 156
Tony Finau 158
Rory Sabbatini 162
Pat Perez 166
David Hearn 168
Ben Crane 179
S.J. Park 180
Brian Stuard 181
Blayne Barber 185
John Huh 187
Sean O'Hair 188
Billy Hurley-III 189
David Lingmerth 192
Andrew Svoboda 193
Retief Goosen 197
Carl Pettersson 204
Danny Lee 205
Vijay Singh 214
Brian Davis 221
Nick Taylor 225
Stewart Cink 226
Andres Gonzales 234
Nicholas Thompson 235
Rod Pampling 238
Charlie Beljan 251
Colt Knost 253
John Peterson 265
Alex Prugh 284
Steve Wheatcroft 286
Jim Herman 308
Sam Saunders 319
Ken Duke 320
Kyle Reifers 328
Hudson Swafford 331
Chad Campbell 333
Spencer Levin 353
Chad Collins 376
Ben Curtis 422
D.A. Points 435
Lucas Glover 479
Davis Love-III 484
Trevor Immelman 545
Tim Herron 708
Brandon Hagy 888
Gunn Yang 1135
Robert Gamez 1548
Rod Perry 1548
MJ Maguire N/A

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RULES

Picking players: Unless stated, pick a total of 9 players as follows:

Pick 3 players from each category, plus a reserve per category.

Event winner: The person with the most total points at the completion of each event will be declared the winner. In case of a tie, those involved will match-off each picks' final position score in descending order. i.e. Player A's best finish vs. Player B's best finish, Player A's 2nd best finish vs. Player B's 2nd best finish, etc... until one's pick finishes better than the other(s).

If there is a tie after all 9 picks have been matched against each other, those involved will be declared co-winners.

Order of Merit: The person with the most total points at the completion of the season will be declared the Fantasy League Champion. If there is a tie for total points at the completion of the season, those involved will be declared Co-Champions.

Player Withdrawals: If you pick a player who withdraws during a tournament, that player will be eligble for points for all completed rounds and making the cut if they withdraw after the cut. It must be apparent that the player completed their round for them to be eligible for either the low round, worse round, top 5, or top 10 low round scores.  If a player withdraws before starting the tournament then your reserve will be put in that player's place. It is up to you to check that your players are in the starting field.

Holidays / Absences: If you will be absent for an upcoming event (e.g holidays) you may post the numbers on the most recent fantasy league event and the respective tournament(s) that apply.  Example: Pick 3 players and 1 reserve from each category and the relative event number or name: Players 4, 5, and 8, reserve 9 from Category A, players 1, 3, and 7, reserve 5 from Category B, players 1, 2 and 17, reserve 12 from Category C, Event #12.

Failure to submit picks: If you do not submit picks you will be awarded zero points.

Deadlines: Picks must ideally be submitted before the first drive is struck on the first day of the tournament. However, late picks submitted after the tournament has begun must be for players who have yet to start (or are not showing a score on europeantour.com, PGATour.com, etc.), and these will not be valid unless they are seconded by any other league member.

All fantasy league disputes and discrepancies will be considered by the League Judge: LadyPutt. All decisions made by the League Judge are final.

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SCORING SYSTEM

______________ Weighted 1 ____ Weighted 2 ___ Weighted 3
Winner ____________ 60 ___________ 120 __________ 180
2nd _______________ 40 ____________ 80 __________ 120
3rd _______________ 30 ____________ 60 ___________ 90
4th - 5th _________ 20 ____________ 40 ___________ 60
6th - 10th ________ 15 ____________ 30 ___________ 45
11th - 15th _______ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
16th - 20th ________ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15

Last Place _________ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15

Low Round * _______ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
Worse Round * ______ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15

Make Cut ___________ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15
All Cat A Make Cut _ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15
All Cat B Make Cut _ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15
All Cat C Make Cut _ 5 ____________ 10 ___________ 15
All 9 Make Cut ____ 20 ____________ 40 ___________ 60

Round 1 Top 5 * ___ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30
Round 3 Top 10 * __ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30

Low Amateur ** ____ 10 ____________ 20 ___________ 30

* Points awarded for round only unless specified otherwise in the rules
** Where separate Low Amateur is specified in rules

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For those of you who don't read, won't read, can't read, or maybe are confused, it's back to three picks from each category.

Given my picks are vital to everybody elses choices I'll go first.

A) J Day, GMac, Horschel ( A Scott)
B) DeLaet, Fat Shane, P Casey (Poulter)
C) Fdz-Castano, Sabatini, Kokrak (D Lee)

Cheers Grumps.

Rory McIlroy
Bubba Watson
Henrik Stenson
(Jason Day)

Hunter Mahan
Ian Poulter
Brandt Snedeker
(Shane Lowry)

Chris Stroud
Chesson Hadley
Jason Kokrak
(William McGirt)


Really enjoying this grumps, so thanks for all the effort.

Category A
Adam Scott
Rickie Fowler
Graeme McDowell

Category B
Webb Simpson
Padraig Harrington
Steven Bowditch

Category C
Nick Taylor
Sean O'Hair
Lucas Glover

Good job you took last week off, Grumps. Let's give this lot a whirl:

A).Stenson, Day, Koepka (Watson)
B).Bradley, English, McNeill (Laird)
C).O'Hair, Glover, Davis (Campbell)

Thanks a lot,

A
Stenson
Scott
Fowler
Reserve: R McIlroy

B
Snedeker
Paul Casey
Levy
Reserve: F Molinari

C
John Huh
David Lingmetrh
Zac Blair
Reserve: Chris Stroud


Thanks Grumpy!

Scott
Stenson
Holmes
R-Arnold Palmer

Poulter
Bradley
Lair
R-Old Tom Morris

Kokrak
Perez
O'Hair
R-Tiger Woods

Rory, Adam, Brooks...Hideki

Bernd, Levy, Louis... Sneds

Brian D, Gonzo, Sean O....Chad

Cat A : Watson, Stenson and Horschel. R = McIlroy
Cat B : Snedeker, Poulter and Lowry. R = Knox
Cat C: Kokrak, Bohn and Crane. R = McGirt

Thanks Grumps.
P.S. Is Sirbenson confident all his picks will show up - or will he choose the same reserves as Pedro?

Rory, Adam Scott, Jason Day R = Bubba
Sneds, Casey, Harris English R = Poulter
Stroud, Gonzo, Crane R = Sam Saunders

I am on holiday for a few weeks, can I go for numbers 2 , 4, 7 (R 12) from Cat A, 1, 8 and 10 (R 4) from Cat B, 3, 9 and 11 (R 2) from Cat C.

Many Thanks

CATEGORY A: Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, Rickie Fowler (res: Graeme McDowell)

CATEGORY B: Ian Poulter, Brandt Snedeker, Keegan Bradley (res: Bernd Wiesberger)

CATEGORY C: Chesson Hadley, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, Sean O'Hair (res: Carl Pettersson)

Stenson, Day, Z Johnson,

Every, Snedeker, Noh,

Hearn, Saunders, Finau,

Rsves - Kokrak, Bae, Na

Thanks for all the work in keeping this going, I am annoying the wife by trying to watch and check the scores!

a lot of people picking Jason Peni$ Shelf

Category A:
Henrik Stenson
J.B Holmes
Kevin Na
Reserve: Bubba Watson

Category B:
Keegan Bradley
Harris English
Paul Casey
Reserve: Martin Laird

Category C:
Zac Blair
Sean O'Hair
Charlie Beijan
Reserve: Tony Finau

super_realist wrote:a lot of people picking Jason Peni$ Shelf

Who?

Kokrak

You have lost me.

Kok=c0ck=peni$
Rak=rack=shelf.

Keep up.

A - Scott, Day, McDowell (Matsuyama)
B - Woodland, English, Laird (Stallings)
C - McGirt, O'Hair, Svoboda (Danny Lee)

Cheers Grumps

CATEGORY A
Henrik Stenson
Adam Scott
Brooks Koepka
Hideki Matsuyama (res)

CATEGORY B
Keegan Bradley
Bernd Wiesberger
Harris English
Russell Knox (res)

CATEGORY C
Jason Bohn
Alex Prugh
Charlie Beljan
William McGirt (res)

Cheers Grumpy

CATEGORY A

Bubba Watson
Jason Day
Rickie Fowler
Billy Horschel (Reserve)

CATEGORY B

Louis Oosthuizen
Russell Knox
Martin Laird
Gary Woodland (Reserve)

Category C

Gonzalo Fdez-Castano
Pat Perez
Lucas Glover
Robert Gamez (Reserve)


Cheers

Cat A: Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson, J.B. Holmes. Reserve Kevin Na

Cat B: Ian Poulter, Keegan Bradley, Harris English. Reserve Justin Thomas

Cat C: Jason Kokrak, Sean O'Hair, Sam Saunders. Reserve Brian Davis

Cat A: Rory McIlroy, Rickie fowler & JB Holmes (res Chris Kirk)
Cat B: Shane Lowry, Paul Casey & Harris English (res Martin Laird)
Cat C: Sean O'Hair, Ken Duke & Jim Herman (res Lucas Glover)

Surely Rory can't play that badly three times on the trot?

Jason Day
Rickie Fowler
J.B. Holmes
Graeme McDowell (R)

Branden Grace
Webb Simpson
Shane Lowry
Danny Willett (R)

Danny Lee
Vijay Singh
Brian Davis
Nick Taylor (R)

Thanks as ever Grumps x

A:
R. McIlroy,
A. Scott,
H. Stenson,
J. day (R)

B:
L. Oosthuizen
P. Casey
H. English
S. Lowry (R)

C:
S. O'Hair
V. Singh
B. Davis
R. Sabbatini (R)

Cat A
Rory McIlroy
Adam Scott
Henrik Stenson
res: Graham McDowell

Cat B
Keegan Bradley
Graham DeLaet
Brandt Snedeker
res: Harris English

Cat C
Brian Davis
Jason Kokrak
Sean O'Hair
res: Retief Goosen

Cheers Grumps

CATEGORY A: Jason Day, Hideki Matsuyama & Henrik Stenson
RESERVE: Rory McIlroy

CATEGORY B: Branden Grace, Brandt Snedeker & Bernd Wiesberger
RESERVE: Justin Thomas

CATEGORY C: Chesson Hadley, Jason Kokrak & Pat Perez
RESERVE: Vijay Singh

Thanks GG!

First tee times 7:35 in Florida, 11:35 in sunny England. Still time for the slow coaches to get their picks in.

Grumps I think at least three of us will have to play our reserve. Accoring to the other thread, Watson is out. (Funeral for a friend, as Elton would say)

Grumps may not be able to reply before tee off but if it is true about Blubba then anyone who has already picked him still has the chance to alter their picks before first tee off if they wish (promote reserve and name another or put someone different into their starting lineup

Details here.

Thanks INW. As Davie says those who have Bubba as a pick or reserve can make changes to their Cat A picks to promote their reserve and add another one. Anyone who doesn't make the edit will have the reserve, if they picked one, automatically upgraded but will run the risk of anything happens to their other Cat A players.

EmmDee
CJB
Sand
INW
Kwini
Mac

Should all look at Cat A again to make any changes they see fit due to Watson's withdrawal.

Hi Grumps. Please promote Rory McIlroy to my team and put J B Holmes as my new reserve.

I'm never wrong wrote:Hi Grumps. Please promote Rory McIlroy to my team and put J B Holmes as my new reserve.

You got it.

And I'll request JB Holmes as my reserve in place of Bubba.

Thanks

A) Rory Mac, Stenson, Scott (J.Day)
B) Bradley, Casey, English (Woodland)
C) Goosen, O'Hair, McGirt (Sabbatini)

kwinigolfer wrote:And I'll request JB Holmes as my reserve in place of Bubba.

Thanks

Okay Kwini

Poulter reporting his son has been in hospital overnight with suspected pneumonia - no mention of him withdrawing (yet) but surely his head won't be in the right place

Davie wrote:Poulter reporting his son has been in hospital overnight with suspected pneumonia - no mention of him withdrawing (yet) but surely his head won't be in the right place

My thoughts too when I read his Facebook posting. I suppose it all depends on how ill the little chap is. Hope he gets better soon

Winkle shelf in the lead....

super_realist wrote:a lot of people picking Jason Peni$ Shelf

He's delivering the goods so far! Isn't he the double heart-transplantee??

Nope that's Prik Compton!

Oh yeah

Is Compton a cephalopod?

super_realist wrote:a lot of people picking Jason Peni$ Shelf

And those who didn't can hang their kok on a rak.

A pox on Levy. That French swine was one of my category B bankers, and lo and behold he's rooted to the (almost) bottom of the leaderboard, thanks in part to a 9 on the par 5 6th.

Bit late to this. Hope it's ok, but here are my picks for the week:

Cat A:
Stenson
Scott
Horschel

Cat B:
Snedeker
Bradley
English

Cat C:
Duke
Na
Kokrak

Cheers Grumps

Little bit late Ray, but some good picks you got there. Think you might have missed a trick with Morgan Hoffmann, perhaps you were thinking of him as a reserve.

Unofficial update for round 1

Super coined his nickname of Pen1s-Shelf but he's not been dicking around out there, Jason Kokrak was among five players who shot 67 to get into the Top 5 Low Round Scores. He was joined by another polarising figure in Ian Poulter. Ken Duke and Kevin Na were the other two picks to shoot 67. John Peterson also shot 67 but no one picked him. Morgan Hoffmann shot 66 to take the early lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Robert Streb and Rod Perry shot 79 for the worst rounds of the day.

Kokrak was selected by seven Fantasy Leaguers and Poulter by five. Four of those doubled down on the dicks. 1GrumpyGolfer, I'm Never Wrong, McLaren, and Pedro are the joint leaders. BlueCoverman, Davie, Super_Realist, and TheCleaver picked either Kokrak or Poulter. CJB picked Na and LadyPutt picked Duke. Beninho, suffering from LPRPitis, managed to pick two of the scorers in his three reserves. If your name has not been mentioned in the above then you didn't trouble the scorer.