TST Fantasy Golf 2016

[Club Rat]

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Webb Simpson has pulled his name from the field at this week's Honda Classic.   Feb 24 - 11:37 AM on RotoWorld

Bummer, didn't even realize it until I checked scores today. Unfortunately, had him in the starting rotation.......

[DaveP043]

what's worse, realizing you're playing one man short of a full team, or watching Rory 3-putt from 12 feet on the last hole?

[RandallT]

45 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

what's worse, realizing you're playing one man short of a full team, or watching Rory 3-putt from 12 feet on the last hole?

Yah, I bet a bunch of us went with Rory this week. So no real benefit this week, plus the insult of losing him for some future round. It may be that burning Webb Simpson for one round for zero points might end up being less damaging than choosing Rory this week! ha ha  

(I'm assuming for top players like Rory, we typically run out of our 10 slots per season? I haven't ever done a fantasy league for golf. There's prob some strategy in using the top players on the most effective weeks, huh? ). 

Rory might struggle to make the cut this week, after that triple-bogey on #5 in Round 2.

How about Fowler making the course look easy so far? -4 and -4.  I think the median is like +2 or something.

 

[Wally Fairway]

Well it looks like I will head into the weekend only playing 3 on the weekend - I have both (A) Rickie & Sergio, then (B) Dufner &  (C) Smylie.

Bye bye to Rory, ZJ & Patty Reed . . . and Chez didn't even bother to show up.
So I've played Rickie both Thur/Fri; do you think it is worth it to "burn" a week for Sergio guessing he will go lower than Rickie one day & hoping to pick up bonus points for both (if they were to finish top 3), or would you just ride along with Mr. HighTops, which is what I'm leaning towards?

[RandallT]

1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

So I've played Rickie both Thur/Fri; do you think it is worth it to "burn" a week for Sergio guessing he will go lower than Rickie one day & hoping to pick up bonus points for both (if they were to finish top 3), or would you just ride along with Mr. HighTops, which is what I'm leaning towards?

Same predicament here. My plan was Rickie all the way, but those bonus points make it tricky. If Sergio nudged Rickie out for the win, I'd hate to leave 20pts out there.

But is saving a top player for one more tournament of the 10 allowed worth more than that? Possibly.  I haven't done the math for the season to see if we will run out of starts for players. Guess I'd look at how many weeks left, and see how many reliable players I like to use are in each category A/B/C, maybe pencil some in on certain future weeks for major tournaments or something. That's a lot of brain power.

[Club Rat]

3 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

Bye bye to Rory & Patty Reed . . .

What a bunch of ba-loney...... These guys are killing my team this year.....

What's with many of the Top players missing Cuts this year ???

 

[Shindig]

sigh my C-list players both missed the cut.  Fabian Gomez missed by a wide margin, and Ricky Barnes who was even yesterday shot a freaking 80.  

Oh well.  I'll have to live this weekend with Rickie Fowler and Jimmy Walker starting for me.  Hopefully Ryan Palmer pulls his weight too.

[Warren Zevon]

I'm down to two.  All of my B squad is out:(

[DaveP043]

8 hours ago, Warren Zevon said:

I'm down to two.  All of my B squad is out:(

+1, same here.  I guess the phrase "choking dog" doesn't really apply when you were never in the hunt in the first place.

[Toffeelover]

No cut this week guys    

[kpaulhus]

After Rickie's hot start, I sat Adam Scott for the weekend. 

[Wally Fairway]

I think I'm picking Rickie Walker this week, but I can't tell if he is an A or B list player.

Playing this fantasy game really makes me wonder what happens that a player can go from poor performance one week and then jump into contention the next (or round to round as Rickie showed last week, though in reverse). I really think that I need to invest in some new darts, because the ones I've been using have made some horrible picks.

[Shindig]

10 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

I think I'm picking Rickie Walker this week, but I can't tell if he is an A or B list player.

Rickie Fowler or Jimmy Walker?  A, B.

[Wally Fairway]

Time to put in my bench players as my starters combined to shoot +6, scoring 22 points; while my bench shot -5. And my C players need to step up their game or they could be traded or sent down to play some AA ball.

[the fish]

Sneds WD with rib injury. His first round was awful, but I was planning to leave him in today to see if he could turn it around and make the weekend. Two tournaments in a row I'm playing with less than a full deck before the weekend.

[DaveP043]

2 hours ago, the fish said:

Sneds WD with rib injury. His first round was awful, but I was planning to leave him in today to see if he could turn it around and make the weekend. Two tournaments in a row I'm playing with less than a full deck before the weekend.

I've been playing with less than a full deck for decades!

[Shindig]

Good job so far Rory.  And, to a lesser extent, Charl.

Jordan, Henrik, step it up.  

[kpaulhus]

Jumped up 2 spots this week as I had Adam Scott and Danny Willett.