Irish Times Fantasy Golf

qwabercd

PARlance wrote: »

Tringale was popular for me. A win would have been a nice differentiator but he threw away a few chances. Hoping he gets second on his own. Have Rose too.

Bradley T22 and DJ T43 to pick up a few points. Should move me up in the rankings from 534.

Same points for 2nd as tied 2nd, and very few will have weekley so it won't really matter. Tringale was a very nice pick. Hoping to push into top 50 myself.

genghis26

Oooh, broke into the top 500. Slightly gutted that I didn't have Tringale, or Triangle as I'm going to insist on calling him, but couldn't quite squeeze him in. Nevermind, onwards and upwards.

qwabercd

Pretty crap that they haven't include the matchplay in the schedule, it actually would've been a good one to have in it as anyone winning their first round match would've ended up in the points (i.e. 17th). No tournament at all next week.

darraghjm

Probably would have been difficult enough to pick 6 players for the 10million when you are only picking players that are in the top 64 in the world

tombenjr2004

What the password for this week folks?

genghis26

tombenjr2004 wrote: »

What the password for this week folks?

No tourney this week as Matchplay is on.

Jasonw

hey folks, I applied to join but haven't been accepted to the league?

puenteboy

I'm in the same situation. Can anybody help?

tombenjr2004

This week password?

robbo1203

Hi. this week's password has not been printed in todays Irish Times, anyone got any ideas ?

rudboy

puenteboy wrote: »

I'm in the same situation. Can anybody help?

Should be up to date now

bressi

Hoylake

keithap76

Where was Hoylake seen its not in the times today

denis1501

it's on the team changes page on the website.

puenteboy

rudboy wrote: »

Should be up to date now

Cheers rudboy

charlieoo

thanks for password

robbo1203

Got an e-mail of apology from Irish Times, seemingly they did post HOYLAKE last week, and it was omitted from the paper to-day, probably due to the Bank Holiday yesterday.

keithap76

denis1501 wrote: »

it's on the team changes page on the website.

Ah yea thanks

qwabercd

These are the weeks that matter with double points and teams that are quite different. Looking at going with Rose, Spieth, Casey, O'Hair, Furyk and Kokrak (with the first 4 being definites).

There isn't many in the 1.3 - 2m range that I fancy and that's why I went for the one extra dear & cheap combo as my last 2 picks (Furyk & kokrak).

Spieth is a must and I just think going with mcilroy & speith leaves the team too weak elsewhere (e.g mcilroy, spieth, casey, o'hair, hoffmann, hoffman).

PARlance

Having Rory in at 4m is far too high, makes a bit of a joke of the process.

Team currently set up as follows:
Spieth, Furyk, Casey, Westwood, Woodland & Hearn.
Have chopped and changed a few times but I think I'm happy with that. Some form players and some players with form around Sawgrass.

bobster453

Same as here with Rory
Eventually went with Speith Furyk Z.Johnson Strellman O'Hair and Billy Horschel

BOB81

Went with kuchar, spieth, westwood, berger, morgan hoffman & matsuyama - couldn't justify mcilroy. have had the tournament winner in my team for the first three events - not as sure I can pull this off this time as the field is so strong!

Clauric

McIlroy, Matsuyama, Spieth, Kisner, O'Hair, and Brian Davis.

Rory being at 4m really did limit the options.

As an aside, how do people work out their teams? Is it based on form, intuition, spreadsheets, bookies odds, golf stats, Eckert picks, etc.?

BOB81

Clauric wrote: »

McIlroy, Matsuyama, Spieth, Kisner, O'Hair, and Brian Davis.

Rory being at 4m really did limit the options.

As an aside, how do people work out their teams? Is it based on form, intuition, spreadsheets, bookies odds, golf stats, Eckert picks, etc.?

So far I've just looked at course form, current form and then a scan of the various fantasy golf picks that the major US golf sites have - don't really look at the bookies odds at all. For the cheaper players its a case of picking anyone who has shown form so far this season - daniel berger and sean o'hair are likely to be regular picks for me in future comps, 1.5mn for the pair of them gives you flexibility elsewhere in the line-up

charlieoo

i went for j spieth j rose p michelson d clarke g mcdowell and no hoper b baird

bobster453

charlieoo wrote: »

i went for j spieth j rose p michelson d clarke g mcdowell and no hoper b baird

Was Clarke not a withdrawal since Tuesday?

bobster453

BOB81 wrote: »

So far I've just looked at course form, current form and then a scan of the various fantasy golf picks that the major US golf sites have - don't really look at the bookies odds at all. For the cheaper players its a case of picking anyone who has shown form so far this season - daniel berger and sean o'hair are likely to be regular picks for me in future comps, 1.5mn for the pair of them gives you flexibility elsewhere in the line-up

Same as here, tho I arent even on the radar in the rankings, maybe the leaders could give us a few pointers, tho if I was them i wouldnt

Had Mitsuyama, then switched for Speith, hope I dont rue that tho early days yet( i hope)

PARlance

bobster453 wrote: »

Same as here, tho I arent even on the radar in the rankings, maybe the leaders could give us a few pointers, tho if I was them i wouldnt

Had Mitsuyama, then switched for Speith, hope I dont rue that tho early days yet( i hope)

I'm top 5 in the boards league (284 overall) so I might be able to blag my way as knowing what I'm doing.

Basically doing the same as ye.... just doing it better Getting luckier.

I tend to look at last years leaderboard for any given comp. Golfers tend to be horses for courses. Then I'll see who is currently in form or showing signs of form from that.

The Players is a lottery with it's strong field and tendancy to throw up surprises. I had several different teams picked before settling on this one (which isn't doing great).
Early days yet, Matsuyama and Hoffman are probably the only two in the top 10 that will be heavily owned.

Rationale for my picks:
Speith; +3
Everyone else will have him so he's pretty much a must have.
Furyk: -2
Steady performer. Finished second last year after playoff. In form too. He was a banker for me this week.
Woodland: +7 (bye bye)
Top 20 here last year and form from last weeks match play
Westwood +4
Same as Woodland.
Hearn -5
My first round superstar picked him because he was cheap and was T6 here last year

qwabercd

Just inside the top 50 myself, finished inside the top 50 3 or 4 times over the years (been playing probably 12 years at this stage I think). Number of different factors I use - there used to be a great free site called smartbets golf which gave you each players course form for about 10 years and their current form this year that was very handy but it's $15 a month or so to use now. Would look at expert's picks a small bit.

Mixture of current form and course form (especially for certain courses) helps me decide. There's always one or two players who will be huge value that I'll pick for nearly every event (e.g o'hair at the moment being 0.5m despite his shocker today). I do use the odds to help guide me in making decisions though.

LinksLad

Clauric wrote: »

McIlroy, Matsuyama, Spieth, Kisner, O'Hair, and Brian Davis.

Rory being at 4m really did limit the options.

As an aside, how do people work out their teams? Is it based on form, intuition, spreadsheets, bookies odds, golf stats, Eckert picks, etc.?

Currently in 4th (boards.ie) on 329 points. I'll mostly do what PARlance does. If I feel I have to pick an expensive player, the next one has to be one of the cheapest available. After that, as has been said, it's horses for courses, mostly.