TST Fantasy Golf 2016

[Avalanche]

I'm in!   Better late than never.  I guess.  

[alleztom]

New player question - I played Bubba yesterday, now he has 9 rounds left - is this for the entire year? Or when does it reset? Thanks in Advance.

[gogolfing]

  On 1/8/2016 at 1:12 PM, alleztom said:

New player question - I played Bubba yesterday, now he has 9 rounds left - is this for the entire year? Or when does it reset? Thanks in Advance.

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Yes that is for the season...if you subbed him out today and put him back tomorrow, it would not cost you an extra start for Bubba, but would for the guy you subbed in for him.

[Wally Fairway]

  On 1/8/2016 at 1:12 PM, alleztom said:

New player question - I played Bubba yesterday, now he has 9 rounds left - is this for the entire year? Or when does it reset? Thanks in Advance.

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He now has 9 events remaining. They can play 9 weeks, so if you play him every round in this event that counts as 1 week; if you swap him for a bench player today and for the rest of the week then they each have played 1 week and have 9 weeks remaining that you can play them.

[toddvw]

Thanks gogolfing.   I'm in

[TN94z]

I missed the deadline today because of work...Oh well. I'm sitting descent so we will see

[Toffeelover]

Spieth & Reed on the bench for round 1 - great start!

[RandallT]

I think I made a bit of a strategic error. Since we have 10 starts, for the premiere players it might be best to hold off on subbing one in off the bench if you've got someone already doing well that tourney. 

For example, I had Bubba in round 1, but swapped him for Fowler round 2. They've both done about the same, so I should've just kept Bubba in, right? Now Fowler has one less start available to me, and I may want that later on.

On the other hand, I raise my chances of getting a player in the top 3... but at the cost of using up a start for a top player. I imagine most people will let their "A" player stay in the whole tourney (assuming the "A" guys are indeed generally the top players), rather than swap out for someone not doing remarkably better that week.

[Club Rat]

  On 1/9/2016 at 4:22 PM, RandallT said:

I imagine most people will let their "A" player stay in the whole tourney (assuming the "A" guys are indeed generally the top players), rather than swap out for someone not doing remarkably better that week.

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For starters, all teams will most likely only have one, maybe two players who they max out starts over the season. So, ride hot players when you can. Yes to "letting a player stay in the whole tourney" if they have a good week and if your bench "A" player could also benefit with potential bonus points, then you could use him also. A rookie mistake that took me a few events to understand was I assumed the final day starters were the only players who could achieve bonus points. Top fantasy teams often acquire additional bonus points over the season using multiple starts. If Bubba and Ricky finish in the top three, then you made a good choice.

Bad choices happen when a player has a poor first round, you then sub and the sub does bad and the benched player Rocks.

I have been the Undisputed Bench Champion the past few seasons.

[gogolfing]

  On 1/9/2016 at 4:22 PM, RandallT said:

I think I made a bit of a strategic error. Since we have 10 starts, for the premiere players it might be best to hold off on subbing one in off the bench if you've got someone already doing well that tourney. 

For example, I had Bubba in round 1, but swapped him for Fowler round 2. They've both done about the same, so I should've just kept Bubba in, right? Now Fowler has one less start available to me, and I may want that later on.

On the other hand, I raise my chances of getting a player in the top 3... but at the cost of using up a start for a top player. I imagine most people will let their "A" player stay in the whole tourney (assuming the "A" guys are indeed generally the top players), rather than swap out for someone not doing remarkably better that week.

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You'll quickly see the strategy in the pool; in fact your post shows that you are already thinking in that direction.

For example, I always go with guys I know I won't max out in these limited field, no cut tournaments. My thought process here is that they are pretty much going to get me points regardless, and keep others for full field events with cuts. I usually only max out 2-4 players for the year anyway, so I try not to start them in these events. That being said, there are no sure things; last year my first start for Speith was at Torrey Pines and he was a MC.  

Because of this, I often start out the season scoring low in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, and then gradually start to work my way up; I am stinking it up pretty good this week, but it is early. 142 rounds to go in the season, so no big deal.

[TN94z]

  On 1/9/2016 at 6:46 PM, gogolfing said:

You'll quickly see the strategy in the pool; in fact your post shows that you are already thinking in that direction.

For example, I always go with guys I know I won't max out in these limited field, no cut tournaments. My thought process here is that they are pretty much going to get me points regardless, and keep others for full field events with cuts. I usually only max out 2-4 players for the year anyway, so I try not to start them in these events. That being said, there are no sure things; last year my first start for Speith was at Torrey Pines and he was a MC.  

Because of this, I often start out the season scoring low in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, and then gradually start to work my way up; I am stinking it up pretty good this week, but it is early. 142 rounds to go in the season, so no big deal.

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Yeah, I've got to figure out a strategy as well. But like you said, plenty of time to learn a strategy. Worst case, it will be great learning experience for next year's strategy

[Club Rat]

JW is on a terror today. 

As usual, he's on my bench !!!!

[Avalanche]

Having problem with Yahoo.  Need help:  

Yesterday I couldn't log on from work.  When logged into Yahoo I could see the two Yahoo college football fantasy games I'm currently playing, but my TST golf game didn't show up under the list of Yahoo games.  But when logged in from home yesterday I everything worked just fine.  

 

Today it's just the opposite.  I accessed the TST Yahoo fantasy golf game at work a couple hours ago, but I it doesn't show up on my list of current fantasy teams now that I'm at home logged into Yahoo.  Real weird.  I've managed a couple dozen Yahoo fantasy teams over the past several years and never had a problem like this.  

 

Any suggestions? 

[gogolfing]

  On 1/10/2016 at 1:21 AM, Volkey said:

Having problem with Yahoo.  Need help:  

Yesterday I couldn't log on from work.  When logged into Yahoo I could see the two Yahoo college football fantasy games I'm currently playing, but my TST golf game didn't show up under the list of Yahoo games.  But when logged in from home yesterday I everything worked just fine.  

 

Today it's just the opposite.  I accessed the TST Yahoo fantasy golf game at work a couple hours ago, but I it doesn't show up on my list of current fantasy teams now that I'm at home logged into Yahoo.  Real weird.  I've managed a couple dozen Yahoo fantasy teams over the past several years and never had a problem like this.  

 

Any suggestions? 

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Sorry @Volkey I have never encountered this before. I don't use Yahoo for any other fantasy sports though. Anyone else help him out?

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[Club Rat]

@Volkey What was your team name?

Did you try the link? Try logging in with the below link.

http://golf.fantasysports.yahoo.com/golf

Group ID 512

Password: sandtrap

[Avalanche]

  On 1/10/2016 at 4:17 PM, Club Rat said:

@Volkey What was your team name?

Did you try the link? Try logging in with the below link.

http://golf.fantasysports.yahoo.com/golf

Group ID 512

Password: sandtrap

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Team name:  Avalanche of Stokes.  I missed the first round, so that's me down around #45.  

I can see my TST golf fantasy team from work now.  But I still can't access it from home--even when I'm signed into the very same yahoo account.  I can see my yahoo fantasy football teams from both home and work, but the fantasy golf team only shows up at work and not at home.   I tried the link in your post but it simply asks me if I want to create a new team and join the league.  Really an odd problem.  I'll fool around trying to figure it out a bit more.  But I can't spend time at work putting together my lineup each week.  That's a home task.  lol  

[Club Rat]

  On 1/11/2016 at 1:39 AM, Volkey said:

That's a home task.

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Maybe try signing out of the yahoo account then sign in again. What about access on your phone?

 

[sjduffers]

Try: http://golf.fantasysports.yahoo.com  When the Signup button shows up, just click it, login into your Yahoo account, and you should be directed to your fantasy team directly, unless you haven't created a fantasy team yet. But from what you're saying, you have one already and I can actually see it...  The Signup button is a misnomer.