2006-02-01

First Week of the HOGB Fantasy Golf Game

Ok, so I haven't had enough time to finish my elaborate fantasy golf player choosing algorithm yet and the Fantasy Golf game is already here upon us. However, the first concatenation of the formula is complete and that was enough to spit out some pretty good picks for who is going to shoot low at the FBR Phoenix Open and here they are:

GROUP		PLAYER	ALGO SCORE
A		Sergio Garcia	16
A		David Toms	16
B		Ryan Moore	14
B		Bo Van Pelt	16
B		Tom Lehman	16
B		J.L. Lewis	17
C		Greg Owen	13
C		Tim Herron	14

Keep in mind that this is only one link in the analysis so the picks might not be statistically significant yet but I'll add more factors to it next week.

I guess I have to bench half of the players in this game so I'm going to bench those with the highest algorithm score (this is golf - the lower number the better!) So that means I'm down with Sergio, Ryan, Bo, and Greg O.

Boring post for those of you that aren't in the game so for you, here is a Google image search of a pretty flower:
   The Legousia Speculum Veneris.

You kidding? Forget the flowers man, come on, join in on the game!  Click here

GROUP		PLAYER	ALGO SCORE
A		Peter Lonard	14
A		Kevin Na	14
A		Tiger Woods	15
A		Sergio Garcia	16
A		Retief Goosen	16
A		David Toms	16
A		Bart Bryant	17
A		Bob Tway	17
A		Joe Durant	17
A		Ryan Palmer	17
A		Rich Beem	17
A		Woody Austin	18
A		Carl Pettersson	18
A		Dudley Hart	18
A		Fred Couples	19
A		Corey Pavin	20
A		Robert Allenby	20
A		Joe Ogilvie	21
A		Jason Bohn	21
A		Kenny Perry	22
A		Chris DiMarco	22
A		Vaughn Taylor	22
A		David Howell	22
A		Joey Sindelar	23
A		Mark Hensby	24
A		Geoff Ogilvy	25
A		Jeff Sluman	25
A		Phil Mickelson	26
A		Vijay Singh	27
A		Jim Furyk	27
A		Jonathan Byrd	28
A		Shigeki Maruyama	30
A		Jesper Parnevik	32
A		Zach Johnson	35
A		Jose Maria Olazabal	37
GROUP		PLAYER	ALGO SCORE
B		Ernie Els	8
B		Ben Crane	12
B		Sean OHair	12
B		Ian Poulter	12
B		Adam Scott	14
B		Ryan Moore	14
B		Luke Donald	16
B		Bo Van Pelt	16
B		Tom Lehman	16
B		J.L. Lewis	17
B		Stephen Ames	18
B		Briny Baird	18
B		Davis Love III	19
B		Fred Funk	19
B		Rod Pampling	19
B		Nick Price	19
B		Carlos Franco	19
B		Stewart Cink	20
B		Rory Sabbatini	20
B		Steve Lowery	20
B		Aaron Baddeley	20
B		Tim Petrovic	20
B		Justin Leonard	21
B		Bernhard Langer	21
B		Scott McCarron	21
B		Brad Faxon	22
B		K.J. Choi	22
B		John Daly	22
B		Kirk Triplett	22
B		Scott Verplank	24
B		Padraig Harrington	25
B		Robert Gamez	25
B		Chad Campbell	26
B		Harrison Frazar	29
B		Michael Campbell	30
GROUP		PLAYER	ALGO SCORE
C		Bob Estes	12
C		Greg Owen	13
C		Tim Herron	14
C		Loren Roberts	14
C		Olin Browne	15
C		Ted Purdy	15
C		Tim Clark	16
C		Jason Gore	17
C		Justin Rose	17
C		Lucas Glover	17
C		Mike Weir	17
C		Nick OHern	18
C		Darren Clarke	19
C		David Duval	19
C		Arron Oberholser	20
C		Heath Slocum	21
C		Stephen Leaney	21
C		Brandt Jobe	22
C		Stuart Appleby	22
C		Steve Elkington	22
C		Steve Flesch	22
C		J.B. Holmes	22
C		Colin Montgomerie	23
C		Wes Short, Jr.	23
C		Hank Kuehne	24
C		Billy Mayfair	25
C		Thomas Bjorn	25
C		Tom Pernice, Jr.	25
C		Lee Janzen	25
C		Charles Howell III	27
C		Jerry Kelly	27
C		Duffy Waldorf	29
C		Jonathan Kaye	29
C		Fredrik Jacobson	34
C		Mark Calcavecchia	36

FULL DISCLOSURE: This entire post is just talking smack to intimidate Mediaguru. But I don't want to lead on the rest of you like that. Don't tell him but the first concatenation of the *elaborate algorithm* is just the point value of the player's name in Scrabble tiles

Theory being that all the best golfers have simple names - Jack, Fred, Lee, etc....

Still a valid method right? I'm still going with these picks; Even with golf I have to go with the random walk theory for trying to beat the index - afterall, every player on Tour has the potential to kick serious a** on any given day.

I still have the Scrabble script I built to figure this out BTW - go ahead and type in a phrase or a name and see what number it adds up to:

Type in anything you want and check it:

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