2022 MGS FANTASY GOLF LEAGUE

[GolfSpy_APH]

6 minutes ago, TBS said:

Tips for a first timer - First time playing fantasy golf; I've been keeping up with this thread but I wanted to see if anyone had any tips before the season starts. Ultimately, I know there is a lot of luck involved (starting the right person at the right time) but is there anything that you do weekly that helps your team?

 

I'm looking forward to the upcoming draft!

Do your best to make sure you have 5 guys starting each week. It won't always be easy or possible, but gives you your best shot at scoring points. Outside of that I always like to roster guys I enjoy watching or cheering for. 

Join in on the Slack Channel and there is a lot more discussion there as well!

[STUDque]

Ok so good news, bad news.

Good news, the vote for an IR roster spot passed by a large margin.

Bad news, PGA doesn’t even track IR or COVID lists so this isn’t even an option to select in our league. 

Apologies for the wasted time and hope. Get to learn a little bit more about how pro golf really works each season. 
 

 

The WD vote is still up until Monday and the current results are very close so make sure you get into Fantrax to place yours if you haven’t yet. 

[Bucky CC]

Anyone willing to sell a 1st or 2nd rounder for FAAB?  I'd also throw in a 6-8 rounder as well.

[gavinski91]

Off to a good start this year - standings currently have me in 17th place!

(Only bragging because this will undoubtedly be the highest position in the standings I achieve this year).

[gavinski91]

24 minutes ago, gavinski91 said:

Off to a good start this year - standings currently have me in 17th place!

(Only bragging because this will undoubtedly be the highest position in the standings I achieve this year).

Actually I realized that it randomizes the standings before the season starts...

 

So of course I refreshed the page until I was 1st. Let's go!

[Quigleyd]

Looking forward to this kicking off again. It has made the last two season much more interesting for me. 

[STUDque]

By a vote of 28-16, the proposed WD bylaw passed. It’s your responsibility as owner to pay attention and act on a replacement notification. We have to make the change in commissioner mode and I can assure you the Commisheses won’t be chasing you guys down to get it done. 
 

Proposed ByLaw: If a started player WDs from an event, the affected owner(s) may select an alternate player from their bench to take their place IF they make the selection publicly (forum, Fantrax, or Slack) BEFORE the start of the next round of play.

[cnosil]

1 minute ago, STUDque said:

By a vote of 28-16, the proposed WD bylaw passed. It’s your responsibility as owner to pay attention and act on a replacement notification. We have to make the change in commissioner mode and I can assure you the Commisheses won’t be chasing you guys down to get it done. 
 

Proposed ByLaw: If a started player WDs from an event, the affected owner(s) may select an alternate player from their bench to take their place IF they make the selection publicly (forum, Fantrax, or Slack) BEFORE the start of the next round of play.

Dum question,  how do the points work?  Do you get the points from the original player up through withdrawal and then the new player, or do get the points for the substituted player for all rebounds?  I know when a player withdraws he essentially gets 0 points in fantasy, but just want to make sure I understand the details.  

[xOldBenKenobiX]

2 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Dum question,  how do the points work?  Do you get the points from the original player up through withdrawal and then the new player, or do get the points for the substituted player for all rebounds?  I know when a player withdraws he essentially gets 0 points in fantasy, but just want to make sure I understand the details.  

Very fair point actually

[Berg Ryman]

13 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Dum question,  how do the points work?  Do you get the points from the original player up through withdrawal and then the new player, or do get the points for the substituted player for all rebounds?  I know when a player withdraws he essentially gets 0 points in fantasy, but just want to make sure I understand the details.  

The way I understand it as proposed, and either other commissioner can come in correct if I'm wrong, is that the new player points earned for the event are what counts. 

Logistically, to do it the other way would require us to manually track points for a player who withdraws, then manually track the points earned only by the substitute from the point they are subbed in, and then editing both points together through a ending bonus. 

Admittedly this system is messy right now, but it's not a crazy total headache, doing it with carry over points is completely unfeasible at this point given the system we are working in.

[STUDque]

15 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Dum question,  how do the points work?  Do you get the points from the original player up through withdrawal and then the new player, or do get the points for the substituted player for all rebounds?  I know when a player withdraws he essentially gets 0 points in fantasy, but just want to make sure I understand the details.  

The replacement just takes their place as if you had started them from the beginning. There’s a lot of different ways I’d rather implement the rule but this is the best we’ve got within the limitations. 

[cnosil]

23 minutes ago, Berg Ryman said:

The way I understand it as proposed, and either other commissioner can come in correct if I'm wrong, is that the new player points earned for the event are what counts. 

Logistically, to do it the other way would require us to manually track points for a player who withdraws, then manually track the points earned only by the substitute from the point they are subbed in, and then editing both points together through a ending bonus. 

Admittedly this system is messy right now, but it's not a crazy total headache, doing it with carry over points is completely unfeasible at this point given the system we are working in.

 

22 minutes ago, STUDque said:

The replacement just takes their place as if you had started them from the beginning. There’s a lot of different ways I’d rather implement the rule but this is the best we’ve got within the limitations. 

Thanks for the clarification.  Just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page; hoping  the situation doesn’t occur but it does seem to happen once or twice a year. 

[GolfSpy AFG]

DRAFT DAY!!!

[Berg Ryman]

Will be very interested to see how the top of the draft plays out tonight. Intrigued to see who values whom.

[cnosil]

44 minutes ago, Berg Ryman said:

Will be very interested to see how the top of the draft plays out tonight. Intrigued to see who values whom.

I’m excited because I have a low first round and high second round pick so I should in theory get two highly ranked players.   Seems like everyone wanted my second round pick as I got lots of trade offers but basically on,y offered their third round pick in exchange.   Turned everyone down so I hope it works out for me 

[GolfSpy_BNG]

13 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I’m excited because I have a low first round and high second round pick so I should in theory get two highly ranked players.   Seems like everyone wanted my second round pick as I got lots of trade offers but basically on,y offered their third round pick in exchange.   Turned everyone down so I hope it works out for me 

I was offering a 3 and a 4 for a 2nd so I could go to bed early lol. Although I’m not sure I offered it to you since

[cnosil]

11 minutes ago, blackngold_blood said:

I was offering a 3 and a 4 for a 2nd so I could go to bed early lol. Although I’m not sure I offered it to you since

I think it was a late 3 and it just felt too far apart for my first two picks.  

[GolfSpy_BNG]

Just now, cnosil said:

I think it was a late 3 and it just felt too far apart for my first two picks.  

My offer was my 1/3/5 plus $ for your 1/2. I never offered the 3/4 to ya. 

[cnosil]

16 minutes ago, blackngold_blood said:

My offer was my 1/3/5 plus $ for your 1/2. I never offered the 3/4 to ya. 

Like I said, I felt the 1/3 vs my 1/2 had me giving up too much 

[GolfSpy_BNG]

19 minutes ago, cnosil said:

Like I said, I felt the 1/3 vs my 1/2 had me giving up too much 

Yep I got ya. Just clarifying that I never did send the second offer to ya. 

[sirchunksalot]

Looking forward to the draft tonight, I'll be able to hang around for at least my first pick, after that it'll probably be auto draft. I put players in my queue, so hopefully it won't cause the draft to lag too bad. Bedtime comes early for me. 

[GolfSpy_APH]

4 minutes ago, sirchunksalot said:

Looking forward to the draft tonight, I'll be able to hang around for at least my first pick, after that it'll probably be auto draft. I put players in my queue, so hopefully it won't cause the draft to lag too bad. Bedtime comes early for me. 

My alarm is set for 5 minutes before the draft. Should be fine waking up, get s coffee and get started. Finish the draft head into work and come home sleep all afternoon till work again... Thank goodness for 30 second timer! 

[poprocksncoke]

Daughter has swim lessons tonight, will probably be in for first part of the draft and use autopick from there on out.  Pre-ranked players are locked an loaded!

[Berg Ryman]

Dang, seeing Akshay Bhatia win on the KF tour makes me super pumped for his 2023 PGA Tour prospects... sleeper for next season

[gobama84]

This from PGA page.

2022 Farmers Insurance Open will feature Saturday finish on CBS

CBS Sports’ 2022 kickoff event to run Wednesday-Saturday including evening finish

[GolfSpy_APH]

2022 MGS Fantasy Golf Draft Recap- Jan 20, 2022 (cet 2:00am)

Hello all and welcome once again to another season of fantasy golf. This years draft we had 68 teams, 8 rounds and a total of 544 picks. This was a really fun draft with lots of back and forth in the chat and a quick 1:41 total time. So props to everyone who was able to attend, thanks for everyone who didn't who setup their autodraft and hope it did your picks justice. 

The draft was of course setup by a flurry of trades in the previous 2 weeks. A total of 36 trades were made before the draft even took place certainly setting a record for this league. I will certainly admit to taking part in a good portion of those. 

These trades left a lot of teams with a variety of picks, strategies and options for how they would construct their rosters. Teams like @palvord opted to trade back and gather a flurry of mid round picks while our trade master and reigning champ @blackngold_blood moved all 8 of his picks into 4 picks in the first 62 overall. Constructing a big 4 that will be hard to compete with, but 6 more spots to fill through the waiver process. 

The majority of the league had 8 picks, but again with all the trading that happen we had several who were on either side of that number either having to look to fill up extra roster spots via waivers or bypass it all together and just watch the initial chaos happen as teams scramble to fill their rosters. With so much cash available it will be interesting to see who spends where and how much... however that is a different topic all together. 

To nobodies surprise Rahm was first off the board with a pick owned by @HeathS16. This wasn't any surprise as he was the consensus #1 pick for this season given his dominance and consistency last year. In fact before we could blink 4 copies of him were gone in the first 4 picks with 1 remaining until recent winner and certainly top worthy pick Hideki & Bryson came off at picks 5/6 leaving the final Rahm copy to fall to @STUDque as Christmas came early for him.... or really late? haha

Morikawa who was likely the #2 overall ranked player came off the board shortly after and was unavailable by pick 17 with only one autodraft really throwing a wrench into things selecting Gooch. However this happens every year and for vets of this league is expected and in some cases counted on!

Other highlight players of round 1 included JT, Bryson, Cantlay, Xander and Hovland were all full taken in round 1. Several other good names were grabbed including Scheffler, Rory, DJ, Niemann, Im and many more had a single copy or more snagged as teams selected their main guys for the season. 

Round 2 was a lot more of the same with really good contributors for the season being taken. Finau, Smith, Spieth,  Berger, Brooks, Burns and Zalatoris all were popular picks. Nearing the end of the round we started to see some strong names from previous years and teams including Canadian Corey Conners, Harris English, P Reed, Abe Ancer, Webb Simpson and some surprises/auto draft picks Mav McNealy, Seamus Power, and Rickie Fowler. All in all a really strong round as it has been year over year. 

Rounds 3 & 4 year after year look pretty similar. Some dark horse players, some bigger names which may carry more value then their play and just some darn good picks. Wolff, Reed, Oosthuizen, Kokrak, Harman, Leishman and some english players were standouts to me. Lots of international picks in these rounds as well. 

Rounds 5 & 6 were last years final 2 rounds. Some blasts from the past show up with Sergio, Stew Cink and Adam Scott making their debuts on the draft board. While some of last years underperformers were also taken. These guys being Fleetwood, Hatton and Jayson Day. These are fun rounds because the picks are valuable, but seems like more risks are taken and there is certainly some nostalgia to some of the names taken. 

Rounds 7 & 8 were non existent last year as we only carries 8 players and drafted 6. This year with a format switch of start/sit and roster sizes to 10 get some bonus draft action. 
The variation of names in these rounds are all over the board. Most all the players taken in the previous 6 rounds will have all 5 copies taken, however here we will see some one offs and waiver type players who will likely be added and dropped over the course of the season. However Phil Mickelson does headline the big names along with Bubba and Gary Woodland. All players with a lot of success, but how can they do this season? Either way worth the pick this late in the draft. 

Mr. Irrelevant for our draft who is also owned by our team picking #1 overall is Taylor Moore. 

I have not gone through any of the teams in depth to see how they panned out, but can say I am extremely happy with how my draft turned out. I got all my target players and then some. 

With a brief look at the waiver wire only Henrik Norlander is a 4 copy owned player with the rest being 3 or less. Thankfully lots of flexibility there for filling teams. 

Thanks all who were able to participate in the draft. Good luck with all your waiver bids and be sure to make sure your line ups are set for next week when we kick off at the Farmers!

[tchat07]

I liked @jddaigneault @Weekend_Warrior @Josh Ross @GolfSpy_APH drafts. Just were the few that stuck out to me as solid teams. Two of which have Carlos Ortiz so good luck with him, he was someone who was in contention one moment and then imploded the next moment. Huge roller coaster ride with him on the squad last year haha.

[HeathS16]

All I am going to say is watch out for Mr. Irrelevant. Big things coming...

[Berg Ryman]

#TeamHeel has finally come to fruition after sttempts the past two seasons.

[Josh Ross]

1 hour ago, tchat07 said:

I liked @jddaigneault @Weekend_Warrior @Josh Ross @GolfSpy_APH drafts. Just were the few that stuck out to me as solid teams. Two of which have Carlos Ortiz so good luck with him, he was someone who was in contention one moment and then imploded the next moment. Huge roller coaster ride with him on the squad last year haha.

I tried to get him from you a couple times last year. I know he's a roller coaster but I'm hoping this is the year he breaks out!