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\"TheNext year we get to witness the “NASCAR-ization” of the PGA Tour. The guys in the big offices of the PGA headquarters wanted to make the end of the year more exciting than watching paint dry, watching people struggle to keep their PGA Tour cards, and the occasional Michelle Wie sighting.<\/p>\n

So what we will have is a points system unveiled last year<\/a> that will determine a playoff field. The points will be reset for a final points chase. Is all this good for the PGA Tour? Is there a better way? I’ll talk about that and more this week in The Numbers Game<\/em>.
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\nHow it All Works<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Hawkins of Golf World was was able to shed some light<\/a> on just exactly how next year’s FedEx Cup points system will work. If you’re lazy and don’t want to click the link, I’ll sum it up for you.<\/p>\n

Every PGA Tour event will have points available. These points are allotted differently for different tournaments… but the difference is not very large. Here is the breakdown:<\/p>\n

Normal PGA Tour events            25,000\r\n\r\nWorld Golf Championships          26,250\r\n\r\nMajors & Players Championship     27,500<\/pre>\n
Clearly, the PGA Tour was trying to stress the majors (and their own tournament) and the World Golf events, but with only a 10% bump, the majors are not stressed much at all. Much of the advantage will go to players who actually qualify<\/em> for WGC events and majors, many of which have smaller fields or lack 36-hole cuts like regular Tour events.<\/p>\n
At each tournament, points are distributed the same way prize money<\/a> is distributed. Using that logic, here’s a list of the points given for the top 10 finishers in a normal PGA Tour event:<\/p>\n
Place    Points\r\n\r\n  1      4500.0\r\n\r\n  2      2700.0\r\n\r\n  3      1700.0\r\n\r\n  4      1200.0\r\n\r\n  5      1000.0\r\n\r\n  6      900.0\r\n\r\n  7      837.5\r\n\r\n  8      775.0\r\n\r\n  9      725.0\r\n\r\n  10     675.0<\/pre>\n
Simple enough so far, right? But wait, there’s more… To make the tail end of the PGA Tour season interesting, things change after the last major. After the Carolina Classic of Greensboro, the first tournament after the PGA Championship, the top 144 in these standings will enter the “Chase for the Cup.” Instead of blanking everyone’s point totals like NASCAR, the PGA Tour will re-allocate points from 1 to 144: player #1 will get 100,000 points, player #144 will get 84,000.<\/p>\n
As if that wasn’t enough, “Chase” tournaments also see a jump in available points: doubled to 50,000. PGA Tour officials hope that this will lead to more play by the bigger names on the PGA Tour, as they’ll have to play – and play well – to maintain their slimmed-down leads. The field is then cut again for the season-ending Tour Championship. It’s not yet known how many points will be available there, but it is known that the winner of the season-long championship receives $10,000,000.<\/p>\n
Current Standings<\/strong><\/p>\n
So now that we better understand how the FedEx Cup will work, let’s apply the logic above to the current year and see how the proposed points system is faring. Using the purse breakdown to extrapolate points would be easy if exactly 70 players made the cut every single week and didn’t tie. The only way to get each player’s percent for each week was to break it down into two tables.<\/p>\n
First I had a base table with each tournament, it’s points value and total purse. It looked something like this:<\/p>\n
Tournament        FedEx Points        Purse\r\n\r\n----------        ------------        -----\r\n\r\nMercedes Champ    25000               $5,400,000 \r\n\r\nSony Open         25000               $5,100,000\r\n\r\nEtc.<\/pre>\n
The other table shows the final standing for each player in each tournament. Using these tables, I could determine the % of the purse each player won in each tournament. I then multiplied that by the total points available for that tournament… and bingo, I have total points won for each player in each tournament.<\/p>\n
Of course this is all based on the assumptions in Mr. Hawkins’ article. If these are true, then as of May 22, 2006 the FedEx Cup standings are as follows:<\/p>\n
1               Phil Mickelson          13942.17\r\n\r\n2               Jim Furyk               12851.66\r\n\r\n3               Stuart Appleby          12179.75\r\n\r\n4               Tiger Woods             11212.58\r\n\r\n5               Chad Campbell           10932.24\r\n\r\n6               Rory Sabbatini          10854.34\r\n\r\n7               Geoff Ogilvy            10315.07\r\n\r\n8               David Toms              10165.51\r\n\r\n9               Rod Pampling            8323.35\r\n\r\n10              Vijay Singh             8288.59\r\n\r\n11              Arron Oberholser        8167.87\r\n\r\n12              Stephen Ames            7949.10\r\n\r\n13              Luke Donald             7884.34\r\n\r\n14              Retief Goosen           7453.92\r\n\r\n15              Jose Maria Olazabal     7408.31\r\n\r\n16              Trevor Immelman         7081.71\r\n\r\n17              Lucas Glover            6811.56\r\n\r\n18              Adam Scott              6721.73\r\n\r\n19              Brett Wetterich         6649.58\r\n\r\n20              Tim Herron              6146.58\r\n\r\n21              Tim Clark               6104.75\r\n\r\n22              Scott Verplank          5854.00\r\n\r\n23              Aaron Baddeley          5636.24\r\n\r\n24              Jerry Kelly             5628.65\r\n\r\n25              J.B. Holmes             5619.26\r\n\r\n26              Camilo Villegas         5487.81\r\n\r\n27              Zach Johnson            5223.17\r\n\r\n28              Mike Weir               5117.60\r\n\r\n29              Billy Mayfair           5060.09\r\n\r\n30              Kirk Triplett           4956.30\r\n\r\n31              Vaughn Taylor           4938.52\r\n\r\n32              Richard Johnson         4765.77\r\n\r\n33              Davis Love III          4655.48\r\n\r\n34              Chris Couch             4608.00\r\n\r\n35              Nathan Green            4491.92\r\n\r\n36              Bo Van Pelt             4461.51\r\n\r\n37              Fred Funk               4126.33\r\n\r\n38              Jesper Parnevik         4103.36\r\n\r\n39              Carl Pettersson         4069.35\r\n\r\n40              Greg Owen               4066.76\r\n\r\n41              Bob Estes               4055.21\r\n\r\n42              Tom Lehman              3952.13\r\n\r\n43              J.J. Henry              3592.97\r\n\r\n44              Stewart Cink            3542.81\r\n\r\n45              Tom Pernice, Jr.        3536.09\r\n\r\n46              Dean Wilson             3479.25\r\n\r\n47              Ernie Els               3373.38\r\n\r\n48              John Rollins            3236.62\r\n\r\n49              Fred Couples            3221.05\r\n\r\n50              Craig Barlow            3185.51\r\n\r\n51              Brett Quigley           3182.02\r\n\r\n52              Jonathan Byrd           3177.92\r\n\r\n53              Charles Howell III      3114.73\r\n\r\n54              K.J. 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Points             881.74\r\n\r\n143             Brent Geiberger         860.06\r\n\r\n144             John Cook               857.42\r\n\r\n145             Troy Matteson           856.36\r\n\r\n146             Cameron Beckman         814.25\r\n\r\n147             Bob Tway                806.42\r\n\r\n148             Steve Jones             787.20\r\n\r\n149             Paul Goydos             776.45\r\n\r\n150             Vance Veazey            770.50\r\n\r\n151             Shingo Katayama         765.98\r\n\r\n152             Chris Riley             761.44\r\n\r\n153             Scott McCarron          756.54\r\n\r\n154             Jeff Overton            753.44\r\n\r\n155             Brian Bateman           737.18\r\n\r\n156             Paul McGinley           731.00\r\n\r\n157             David Duval             721.31\r\n\r\n158             Kent Jones              712.61\r\n\r\n159             Michael Allen           704.64\r\n\r\n160             Robert Garrigus         701.70<\/pre>\n
That looks a lot like the money list<\/a>, huh? It should, since the points are basically a reflection of the purse! The only way the two could vary is if someone does well in the “big” tournaments or vice versa. Curious, I looked at the top players to see if any had a large differential between their place on the money list and their place on the FedEx Cup points list. Here it is:<\/p>\n
Player              FedEx    Money    Diff\r\n\r\n------              -----    -----    ----\r\n\r\nPhil Mickelson        1        1        0\r\n\r\nJim Furyk             2        2        0\r\n\r\nStuart Appleby        3        3        0\r\n\r\nTiger Woods           4        5       -1\r\n\r\nChad Campbell         5        6       -1\r\n\r\nRory Sabbatini        6        7       -1\r\n\r\nGeoff Ogilvy          7        4       +3\r\n\r\nDavid Toms            8        8        0\r\n\r\nRod Pampling          9        12      -3\r\n\r\nVijay Singh          10        11      -1\r\n\r\nArron Oberholser     11        13      -2\r\n\r\nStephen Ames         12        9       +3\r\n\r\nLuke Donald          13        14      -1\r\n\r\nRetief Goosen        14        10      +4\r\n\r\nJose Maria Olazabal  15        15       0\r\n\r\nTrevor Immelman      16        16       0\r\n\r\nLucas Glover         17        19      -2\r\n\r\nAdam Scott           18        18       0\r\n\r\nBrett Wetterich      19        17      +2\r\n\r\nTim Herron           20        20       0\r\n\r\nTim Clark            21        21       0\r\n\r\nScott Verplank       22        24      -2\r\n\r\nAaron Baddeley       23        26      -3\r\n\r\nJerry Kelly          24        36      -12\r\n\r\nJ.B. Holmes          25        27      -2\r\n\r\nCamilo Villegas      26        22      +4\r\n\r\nZach Johnson         27        23      +4\r\n\r\nMike Weir            28        28       0\r\n\r\nBilly Mayfair        29        32      -3\r\n\r\nKirk Triplett        30        57      -27\r\n\r\nVaughn Taylor        31        29      +2\r\n\r\nRichard Johnson      32        30      +2<\/pre>\n
You can see that Kirk Triplett has managed to slide up 27 spots in the FedEx Cup standings. How did he do this? By winning the tournament<\/a> that had the smallest purse this year, the Chrysler Classic of Tuscon. Guess who finished second in the same tournament? Yup, Jerry Kelly – the other player that has a large differential. Other than that, there isn’t a player in the top 30 of the 32 of the money list that moved more than four spots either way.<\/p>\n
What I Think<\/strong><\/p>\n
There are a couple of things I think can – or should – be done to make the FedEx Cup a bit more fair and fun. First off, instead of just assigning 25,000 points to all the “normal” tournaments, why not use strength of field to determine the amount of points assigned? This would reward players who play in tournaments, such as the Wachovia Championship, that attract more dominant players. Kirk Triplett’s win came in an event in which the top 64 players in the world were competing elsewhere – in that same weekend’s WGC Match Play Championship. If we want the best golfers at the top of the FedEx Cup at the end, don’t reward someone for beating up on lesser competition. I’m fine with using the purse allocation method to assign points, but the total points shouldn’t be the same week to week.<\/p>\n
In addition to a strength-of-field factor, I’d like to see the PGA Tour implement a cut in the “Chase” tournaments. The first week, 144 compete. The next week, perhaps only the top 110 move on, and so forth. This would build drama as the series moved on, until the Tour Championship, where I think that the field should be limited to the top 30 and<\/strong> anyone that, with a win, could claim the title. I doubt that the person in 31st place will be within 5000 points of the leader, but it’s conceivable and similar in concept to the dual cut on the PGA Tour – the top 70 and ties get in plus<\/strong> anyone within 10 shots of the lead.<\/p>\n
At this point, I like the FedEx Cup and what I think it will do for the PGA Tour. I’m a bit nervous to see if any of the big names skip out like Phil did last year, but with a shortened schedule and more incentive – OK, 10 million more incentives – I think that next year will bring some excitement to the fall months on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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