2022 MGS FANTASY GOLF LEAGUE

[GolfSpy_APH]

Week 5: The Honda (Carnage) Classic

After a pretty wild 72 holes with some very high scores from some great golfers, local Austrian and next door neighbor (country wise) to me and the first Austrian PGA Tour Winner Sepp Straka pulled up a great win! With a collapse by Berger and a steady Lowry in the final pairing Sepp managed to string together a great weekend and take home the win. 

Our high scoring team of the week goes to @Hobert with 195.7. He only had 4 make the cut, but had both Sepp and Lowry in the starting lineup who combined for greater then our league average which was at 120.55 (Sepp/Lowry earned just under 130 total). 

Also worth noting that nobody (obviously) broke the 220 barrier, which isn't a big surprise given the scores, but also for the first time nobody broke 200 which hasn't been too too hard to achieve with a typical league average of 160+. 

It was a pretty crazy week and a shout out to the other undefeated team @Gino5778. A lot of high scores and a lot of golf balls in the water, but overall a bit of a nice change of pace from the normal week to week events we see. 

Not many real standouts left on the wire this week, but given how many high scores maybe there were more then I'm listing here?

Now that we are a bit more then 5 weeks into this and nearing the first major and even though the playoffs are still some 20 weeks away I'm going to break the standings down a little differently to help aid in the playoff picture. As a reminder top 15 in both pools get in, top 10 total points scored in either pool after that also get in.Bonus points are earned for end of season standings. 

Our overall top 15 are as follows

@jddaigneault continues to lead the way for the second week in a row becoming our first back to back season leader, however his 10 game lead has been shrunk to just 1. 
 

Draw Division top 15


Fade Division top 15

The next part is hard to lay out, but I'll do my best. (number on the left if it is 31 or more you are likely eligible for the fantasy points scored playoff spot) This is not fully broken down, but gives you a rough idea. 

As you can see our defending champ has climbed his way from the depths and is starting to gain some real ground... I'm scared... are you? haha

Unfortunately due to work/family/illness/baby and more I didn't watch a minute of golf this weekend so only have the leaderboard and mgs/fantrax threads to go off of so hope everyone who did watch enjoyed it!

We now move onto Bay HIll for the Arnold Palmer Invitational with some exciting players back in the fields and hopefully some great golf to come!

Cheers!

[Hobert]

Nice summary! I started Sepp thinking that he would have a good chance to make the cut. Overtaking Berger on Sunday was not in my plans. I did hope Lowry would carry my squad this week and he delivered.

[GolfSpy_APH]

Just realizing this, but how the heck do we manage to have ties! That is wild. 

 

[jddaigneault]

5 hours ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

Week 5: The Honda (Carnage) Classic

After a pretty wild 72 holes with some very high scores from some great golfers, local Austrian and next door neighbor (country wise) to me and the first Austrian PGA Tour Winner Sepp Straka pulled up a great win! With a collapse by Berger and a steady Lowry in the final pairing Sepp managed to string together a great weekend and take home the win. 

Our high scoring team of the week goes to @Hobert with 195.7. He only had 4 make the cut, but had both Sepp and Lowry in the starting lineup who combined for greater then our league average which was at 120.55 (Sepp/Lowry earned just under 130 total). 

Also worth noting that nobody (obviously) broke the 220 barrier, which isn't a big surprise given the scores, but also for the first time nobody broke 200 which hasn't been too too hard to achieve with a typical league average of 160+. 

It was a pretty crazy week and a shout out to the other undefeated team @Gino5778. A lot of high scores and a lot of golf balls in the water, but overall a bit of a nice change of pace from the normal week to week events we see. 

Not many real standouts left on the wire this week, but given how many high scores maybe there were more then I'm listing here?

Now that we are a bit more then 5 weeks into this and nearing the first major and even though the playoffs are still some 20 weeks away I'm going to break the standings down a little differently to help aid in the playoff picture. As a reminder top 15 in both pools get in, top 10 total points scored in either pool after that also get in.Bonus points are earned for end of season standings. 

Our overall top 15 are as follows

@jddaigneault continues to lead the way for the second week in a row becoming our first back to back season leader, however his 10 game lead has been shrunk to just 1. 
 

Draw Division top 15


Fade Division top 15

The next part is hard to lay out, but I'll do my best. (number on the left if it is 31 or more you are likely eligible for the fantasy points scored playoff spot) This is not fully broken down, but gives you a rough idea. 

As you can see our defending champ has climbed his way from the depths and is starting to gain some real ground... I'm scared... are you? haha

Unfortunately due to work/family/illness/baby and more I didn't watch a minute of golf this weekend so only have the leaderboard and mgs/fantrax threads to go off of so hope everyone who did watch enjoyed it!

We now move onto Bay HIll for the Arnold Palmer Invitational with some exciting players back in the fields and hopefully some great golf to come!

Cheers!

I didn’t think there was the slightest chance of hanging on to first place. Two weeks in a row feels good!

[STUDque]

9 hours ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

Just realizing this, but how the heck do we manage to have ties! That is wild. 

 

In theory, there should be one tie every week. Using League Median (not average), it uses the 50th percentile score so someone should be tying it every week. There’s been 6 ties so far but only 5 weeks of play so I’m not sure how to explain that. 

I like Median as an opponent vs average because it truly shows whether you’re in top or bottom half of the league. 

[xOldBenKenobiX]

Hello Friends, this is the time of the week when I get a chance to update the trading list.

MGS Golf Fantasy trade chart 2022 V1.1

 

Happy trading

[Blueberry_Squishie]

On 3/1/2022 at 9:40 AM, STUDque said:

In theory, there should be one tie every week. Using League Median (not average), it uses the 50th percentile score so someone should be tying it every week. There’s been 6 ties so far but only 5 weeks of play so I’m not sure how to explain that. 

I like Median as an opponent vs average because it truly shows whether you’re in top or bottom half of the league. 

With 68 participants (even number), wouldn't it be unusual to have anyone tie with the median?

[STUDque]

4 hours ago, Blueberry_Squishie said:

With 68 participants (even number), wouldn't it be unusual to have anyone tie with the median?

Crap, you’re right. I dunno then. Maybe there’s been natural ties….. which isn’t that far out of the realm of possibility either. 

[Josh Ross]

13 hours ago, STUDque said:

Crap, you’re right. I dunno then. Maybe there’s been natural ties….. which isn’t that far out of the realm of possibility either. 

I know my tie with @Getoffmylawn was a natural tie during the WM Phoenix Open and we didn't have a single golfer in common. I was surprised by it for sure.

[GolfSpy_APH]

Week 6: Arnold Palmer Invitational Recap
Scottie! Our first double digit season winner on the tour. Guess when a guy is hot he is hot. Another somewhat surprising win in that he wasn't in the final group and was a few back going into Sunday and well apparently shooting even was good enough. Felt bad for Gooch and Horschel as the course played really tough Sunday and the scores reflected that. Between this and Honda those are two tough stops for the tour... makes Riv look easy. 

From a fantasy side it was a interesting week with some bigger/popular names missing the cut such as Reed, Power, Davis, Theegala, Higgo, Straka, Kisner and Na. Drop in lots of over par rounds and we saw another week with lower scores (fantasy points).

We have a new leader with @ZJBogey2overtaking @jddaigneaultfor top spot in the overall lead. The rest of our top 15 round out like this:

Our league median this week plummeted to a season low of 105.98 which is roughly 50 lower then the typical average. Just goes to show how tough a week it was. However myself and @Mtbryant01 were able to crack the 200 barrier with @GolfSpy_APHmanaging the top point scoring week at 210.7.

The other undefeated team this week was @Bunker Snot in the fade division. 

Fade Division at the moment is the seemingly slightly stronger division holding the top 3 spots in the overall. Fade top 15 looks like the following:


Draw division is of course still very competitive, but certainly looks a little different

As for the wild card spots (Top 10 in Points Scored remaining) it roughly at the moment includes the following (remember this is NOT official, but number above 30 on the left side eligible for that position)

Reigning champ @blackngold_blood is not unsurprisingly working his way back from a slow start and leading this by a good margin. 

There wasn't a whole lot left on the waiver wire. 19 guys who made the cut were available, but only these guys made much of a impact. 

A very interesting season so far and one that has lots of ebs and flows, but now we get into the meat of the schedule with The Players coming up next week, Masters just around the corner some good texas events and well simply a LOT more golf. 

Good luck everyone and wish everyone the best of luck moving forward next week!

[Peaksy68]

Hopefully I can keep climbing the leaderboard. It’s a long road back from a 0-34 start

[cnosil]

7 hours ago, Peaksy68 said:

Hopefully I can keep climbing the leaderboard. It’s a long road back from a 0-34 start

I seem to be descending in at standings pretty quickly so somebody has to be moving up 

[GolfSpy_APH]

Wanting to move Westwood for any of those interested. Prefer to make a deal around one of the players on my wanted list but would also sell for faab.

[jddaigneault]

Draw division is like 2000s NBA Western Conference. Stacked. Averaging around 5 points per team per week higher than Fade division. 

[Nolan220]

I’m starting to make moves made it to #40

[Berg Ryman]

Some would say I should regret passing on Jon Rahm to take Bryson DeChambeau... others would say I do regret passing on Jon Rahm for Bryson DeChambeau... I say... nothing.

[GolfSpy_APH]

3 minutes ago, Berg Ryman said:

Some would say I should regret passing on Jon Rahm to take Bryson DeChambeau... others would say I do regret passing on Jon Rahm for Bryson DeChambeau... I say... nothing.

I mean he did come out and say that Big Things Are Coming! So strong finish? Still have 20 weeks left in the regular season. 

[xOldBenKenobiX]

What a beautifully tough Sunday at bay hill was.

I have had the chance to update the trade sheet.

MGS Golf Fantasy trade chart 2022 V1.1

I will recheck tomorrow as at times the FedEx and OWGR do not update in a timely manner.

Happy trading my friends.

 

[cnosil]

2 hours ago, Berg Ryman said:

Some would say I should regret passing on Jon Rahm to take Bryson DeChambeau... others would say I do regret passing on Jon Rahm for Bryson DeChambeau... I say... nothing.

I took Bryson as my #1 pick and while Rahm wasn’t available I could second guess all day long on picks.   Still early and he could come back and win a few events for us.  

[JFish350]

I had a great week pulled into 56th place. Had almost as many wins this week as the whole season. I'm hoping by not trading my guys away will pay off. It's easy when all you have are 5 guys playing and they all make the cut.  All 10 going this week so I am sure to choose poorly. 

 

Good luck everyone

[cnosil]

For Hideki owners, you may want to pick a new player as he has withdrawn with a back injury.  
I know we voted to allow a player to be replaced if they withdraw but here is the fallout from that.   I have the player on my roster that replaced Hideki but I am not allowed to put him into play. 

[TCUfrog]

11 minutes ago, cnosil said:

For Hideki owners, you may want to pick a new player as he has withdrawn with a back injury.  
I know we voted to allow a player to be replaced if they withdraw but here is the fallout from that.   I have the player on my roster that replaced Hideki but I am not allowed to put him into play. 

@fantasy admins please advise on how to replace hideki in our lineups

[GolfSpy_APH]

Declare your replacement here or via Fantrax. 

[xOldBenKenobiX]

What a weekend, this players championship was awesome.

I have updated the trade sheet.

MGS Golf Fantasy trade chart 2022 V1.1

Happy trading.

[yungkory]

Bruh I keep forgetting to set my lineup I'm such a dbag

[GolfSpy_APH]

With most all the chat going on with Fantrax Chat the recaps will be no more. With other Forum work and priorities just not something I can really put the time into. Good luck all and enjoy the season and happy trading in the week off!

[Hobert]

2 hours ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

With most all the chat going on with Fantrax Chat the recaps will be no more. With other Forum work and priorities just not something I can really put the time into. Good luck all and enjoy the season and happy trading in the week off!

Totally understand. Thank you for all of the effort on past recaps!

[GolfSpy_APH]

That being said after this week shout out to @poprocksncokefor taking the overall lead! 

[poprocksncoke]

5 hours ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

With most all the chat going on with Fantrax Chat the recaps will be no more. With other Forum work and priorities just not something I can really put the time into. Good luck all and enjoy the season and happy trading in the week off!

 

27 minutes ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

That being said after this week shout out to @poprocksncokefor taking the overall lead! 

Thank you sir!!  We'll see how long it last, lol.  

Will miss the recaps but know you have a lot going on right now 

[GolfSpy_APH]

19 minutes ago, poprocksncoke said:

 

Thank you sir!!  We'll see how long it last, lol.  

Will miss the recaps but know you have a lot going on right now 

I'll for sure do one after the Majors and who knows if things slow down maybe I'll be able to get back at it, however for now time to put focus in more important places!