2014 PGA $ League: Results/Trash Talk Thread

ezemerson

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dont have a promising start with just 4 guys and neither of my top two picks.....only good thing is that all four guys went to the University of Georgia
 

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Good start for Matsuyama, but what the hell happened to Snedeker yesterday? 8 over for the round? 
 

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I thought this might be fun to look at each week. Here are my weekly power rankings for Pebble Beach based on how the current teams performed at this event last year.
 
 [tablegrid= Vegas Sox Fan Weekly Rankings  - Pebble Beach ]Team Guys Playing 2013 Points  The Four Peters 4 17  Leon Trotsky 6 15  WayBackVazquez 5 13  JohnMD20 3 12  TeddyKGB 7 10  Vegas Sox Fan 4 10  Lupe Walewatch 5 8  BostonBeerBelly 4 8  Big Mike 6 6  BMHH 6 4  Dan1864 4 4  Average Reds 5 3  DaveStapleton 5 3  DOTB 5 2  Flawless 5 1  AirborneSas 2 1  RandyWatson 2 1  Cshea 3 1  Ezemerson 4 1  Zomp 4 0 [/tablegrid]
 

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Cool chart Vegas.  Will enjoy seeing how that plays out throughout the year.  This weekend can't come fast enough.
 

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Vegas Sox Fan said:
I thought this might be fun to look at each week. Here are my weekly power rankings for Pebble Beach based on how the current teams performed at this event last year.
This is great, thanks. It's amazing how many of these consistently play well at the same course year in and year out . Truly creatures of habit.
 

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Vegas Sox Fan said:
I thought this might be fun to look at each week. Here are my weekly power rankings for Pebble Beach based on how the current teams performed at this event last year.
 
 
This is a great chart! I think I have six going though. I'm pretty sure I had seven, but think Byrd dropped out which is concerning. He needs to turn it on soon to earn his medical exemption back, or I'm going to be pissed.
 

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I like the chart too but isn't the PGA like mutual funds when you talk about most of these guys (i.e., past performance does not predict future results)?
 
I have my top two guys going.  I may have to deal with big time swings this year (no pun intended) since I think I have the "all erratic team". I intentionally picked that way after having bland Webb, Garrigus and Kirk who, at their mediocre best, would hang around until midday Saturday and then settle into the middle of the pack.
 

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Dave Stapleton said:
I like the chart too but isn't the PGA like mutual funds when you talk about most of these guys (i.e., past performance does not predict future results)?
 
I have my top two guys going.  I may have to deal with big time swings this year (no pun intended) since I think I have the "all erratic team". I intentionally picked that way after having bland Webb, Garrigus and Kirk who, at their mediocre best, would hang around until midday Saturday and then settle into the middle of the pack.
 
 
Yeah there are a few guys who play well on specific courses every year,  and then there is Tiger who has about 7 of those events.   but yeah for the most part it seems to be mostly all about how well a guy is playing at any given point in time
 
We will see how it goes,  right now i am pretty happy with my team and feel that most weeks I will have a fighting chance on Thursday at least.  Hopefully none of those weeks where I end up with only 2 guys teeing off on Thursday
 

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Kicking off tomorrow gents.  Haven't been this excited for a fantasy season in a long time, for any sport.  Good luck to everyone.  Hope you're guys hit 'em straight, but not straighter than mine.
 

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Good luck every one
 
.. Vegas nice job with the power rankings for each week and overall.
 
I hope they are wrong though as my projection looks shitty. Then again my top 3 already decided they wont play week 1 so maybe they are pretty accruate lol
 

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Who is going to be the first one to lament their team's performance by score relative to par instead of position on the leaderboard?
 
 
I'm going with...Stapleton.
 

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ugh - ive waited all week for today and now it looks like they may not even get back on the course today
 

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Who the hell is Andrew Loupe....are they sure he's not one of the amateurs from a corporation
 

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Not the best day from my guys yeserday, but 4 of them were on Spyglass (and 2 are under par),  so that is ok. 
 

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On PGRTour.com  it shows the course they are on today in parentheses next to the name ie

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (MP)
 
MP is Monterrey Peninsula
 
Since round 1 is over it is showing round 2.
 
It looks like,  if you played Spyglass Yesterday  you are on MP   today,  and will be on Pebble on Saturday
If you played Pebble Yesterday you will play Spyglass today,  and then MP on Saturday
And those who played MP yesterday will play Pebble today, and Spyglass tomorrow
 
Also if you click on any player it will show the card and the course for each day
 

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Ditto, I love Spieth.  He's got all sorts of game and seems like a genuinely good kid.  Really easy to root for him.
 
I'm also having flashbacks.  My 1st, 2nd and 4th round picks all decided to take the week off.  Good times.
 

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Who is going to be the first one to lament their team's performance by score relative to par instead of position on the leaderboard?
 
 
I'm going with...Stapleton.
Wait what?

Anyway. My team didn't show up this week. See you next week.
 

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Long way to go, but if Jimmy Walker could hang on and win this thing, it might be one of the best starts on the PGA tour since the Tiger days.  Through 7 events, he already has 2 wins, a 6th and a 12th.  I can't remember anyone since Tiger winning 3 out of 8 tournaments.  He's really found something in his game this year.  Nice to see Hunter Mahan playing really well to start the year as well.  He has a ton of talent, but he regressed a bit last year, even though he had 5 top 10's in 25 events.  He finished 4th at the Waste Management last week and is currently 2nd this week.
 
Phil is sitting in 8th right now, 5 strokes back of Walker, and in a good spot to make a weekend move.  Another surprise is David Duval, currently tied with Phil.  Would be really interesting and a pretty good story if he could get his game back. He's missed 36 of his last 49 cuts going back to 2011, including 7 out of 8 last year (the one cut he made, he finished 66th).  His last top 10 finish was the Honda classic in February, 2011.
 

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Deathofthebambino said:
Long way to go, but if Jimmy Walker could hang on and win this thing, it might be one of the best starts on the PGA tour since the Tiger days.  Through 7 events, he already has 2 wins, a 6th and a 12th.  I can't remember anyone since Tiger winning 3 out of 8 tournaments.  
 
Well, Vijay won 4 out of 8 and 5 out of 10 in 2004.
 

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Right, which is why I wrote "since Tiger."  Tiger was winning 3 out of every 8 tournaments as recently as 2013.  During his years, and obviously prior, there were plenty of guys like Vijay that won tournaments at roughly that pace during parts of their careers, but since Tiger's demise (which I really consider 2009, notwithstanding the run he had in 2013), I don't think anyone has had a run of 3 out of 8 wins, and certainly not to start a season.
 

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Play suspended again right now.  Anyone know if they have a chance to resume today or is this going to linger all day?
 

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DA points was DQ'd yesterday for using a training aid during a wait. How does a pro not know this rule??

I play a lot of local amateur events and I'm pretty sure everyone I've ever played with has known that you can't do that.
 

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Deathofthebambino said:
Right, which is why I wrote "since Tiger."  Tiger was winning 3 out of every 8 tournaments as recently as 2013.  During his years, and obviously prior, there were plenty of guys like Vijay that won tournaments at roughly that pace during parts of their careers, but since Tiger's demise (which I really consider 2009, notwithstanding the run he had in 2013), I don't think anyone has had a run of 3 out of 8 wins, and certainly not to start a season.
 
Okay, well if you meant since 2009, Rory won 3 out of 4 in 2012, one of which was a major.
 
As for "to start a season," nobody else has been able to count last October as starting a season, either.
 

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A buddy of mine has a son playing the Euro tour and something similar happened to him. I guess he was waiting to tee off and just set one club on the ground off to the side to line up his feet and took a practice swing. Maybe illegal but DQ seems a little harsh.
 

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A buddy of mine has a son playing the Euro tour and something similar happened to him. I guess he was waiting to tee off and just set one club on the ground off to the side to line up his feet and took a practice swing. Maybe illegal but DQ seems a little harsh.
 
Yeah, but they showed what DA did. He used something under his arm that was specifically a training tool. They said that people often use things like clubhead covers, and that's fine, but when you use something like this, it;s a no-brainer violation.