2005 ESPN Fantasy Golf League

[Rafcin]

it shows you how big of a factor luck is...
I was away and didn't have a chance to change the lineup from last week... -11 first round, going strong this round too. it's like playing lottery

[iacas]

Philly Mick is -9 on his own card today. Anyone with him is bound to do well today. An eagle on the short par-4 17th and seven other birdies. Sure beats his first-round +2!

[iacas]

Philly Mick is -9 on his own card today. Anyone with him is bound to do well today. An eagle on the short par-4 17th and seven other birdies. Sure beats his first-round +2!

He ended up tying the course record, a 60, and finished at -11.

He couldn't hit a fairway yesterday to save his life, and today, this. Charles Howell III only contributed two birdies to the cause, putting me at -13 with B.Haas and Singh yet to play many holes (or none). Though they can't help much: the only open holes are 1, 2, 4, 10, 12, 18.

[Ben]

Holy F'in Phil! What a round. Thank you Phil.

Well, I'm -15 under right now, Vijay has yet to tee off, and Duffy still has some hole to play to fill in my missed birdies on the back.

[Mr High Anxiety]

Lefty tore it up today but I picked Singh instead. Hopefully he will come through for me but it's not looking good. par,par,par,par just sink a birdie damn it.

[iacas]

I had Phil and Vijay. And CHIII and B.Haas. So it ain't lookin' so hot for me this weekend.

[Mr_Slice]

I had two miss the cut. Yippee.

[Ben]

What did I tell you about the Duffman...

Birdie, par, eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie finish today!

Had one guy miss the cut though. I was between John Senden and Andrew Magee. And obviously picked the wrong one.

[Mr_Slice]

What did I tell you about the Duffman...

Wow, very nice. At least you have three guys on the course today, though. My two did alright. But pretty much all of us have Phil and at least half of us have Vijay. So, I won't be moving up. LOL

[Ben]

At least you have three guys on the course today, though.

Yeah, I suppose 3 is better than 2. But 4 is ideal. That one extra guy to pick up the stray birdie or two for the group.

[muskegman]

There's a little redemption for a bad start! Thank you Phil Mickelson.

[iacas]

So the guy who doesn't change his team from last week because he's travelling wins this week? Jeepers man!

[pre]Pos Name R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Pos*
1 Ben Tateel -8 -15 -12 -9 -44 4
2 Jason Job -7 -13 -10 -8 -38 T7
3 Rafi Lenartowicz -11 -15 -15 -11 -52 1
4 Thomas Goyne -10 -16 -10 -10 -46 2
5 Erik Barzeski -8 -14 -10 -9 -41 5
6 Jeff Smith -8 -14 -12 -11 -45 3
7 Aaron White -7 -14 -9 -8 -38 T7
8 J H -10 -9 -10 -9 -38 T7
9 Kiran Vakamudi -7 -10 -7 -6 -30 10
10 Todd Barnash -7 -9 -5 -8 -29 11
11 Braswell Brandt 3 0 0 0 3 13
12 John Hohman -8 -14 -7 -10 -39 6
13 Matt Hall -6 -7 -6 -5 -24 12
* This week's position[/pre]

To Aaron: neener neener.

I've picked three of the five winners this year and I'm in 5th of our 13! Tough competition!

[Ben]

He didn't even pick new players?! HAHAHAHA. Rafcin rocked everyone last week!

[iacas]

He shot the lowest score possible and earned himself 100 points. This week we get double points, and I'm slowly moving up the ladder. I'm comin' to get ya! (OK, I have absolutely no shot at that, but my goal is to finish this first swing in 4th).

[pahonix]

I'm sure glad I set my calendar to remind me on Wednesday mornings to edit my ESPN team. I went and checked today and ALL FOUR of my players from last week are not playing this week, lol!

But here's something weird, I picked all new players and did it so that I had exactly 50.0 points. I got this message:

Your foursome's salary exceeds the limit of 50.0. No statistics will be accumulated until you reduce your salary below that threshold. Please change your foursome.
TEAM VALUE50.050.0 --
REMAINING SALARY-0.0

WTF? Not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but some calculation is wrong there. I'll go substitute another player in the mean time so I can have my stuff counted. Then I'll go find where to submit a bug report.

[iacas]

I've had that "50.0 is greater than 50.0" error message before too. Pissed me off cuz I really liked my team.

This week I have a team that's 46.9. Anything in the 40s is a good team. My ideal team:
1) one guy who makes nothing but pars
2) three guys who make 9 birdies+eagles/round. I don't care what they get on the other 9 holes - triples, doubles, whatever. The par guy - or another of the three birdie/eagle guys - will make up for it.

[Mr_Slice]

I'm at 49.6.

That's a bummer about the error message. They need to get that fixed. It's a big deal.

[Mr High Anxiety]

Locked and loaded at 49.5. The most expensive team I have put together so far.