Irish Times Fantasy Golf

pooman wrote: »

Careful when picking your team. If you pick your team now and realise there's a guy not playing in the Masters (a la Kevin Na) you can't change him. Need to create a new account

This is confusing me, you can change your team as much as you like until The Masters starts no? I'm after changing a couple of players round there with no problem.

Deshambles in, Sneds out, no bother. You can change, but some players are in, and others are not yet qualified, if you know what I mean. They probably went by the odds not the Field. Rookie error:)

qwabercd wrote: »

Still not sure what you're on about!

There are two things going around, not every qualified player is there in the list to be picked, and The when you picked a player you are locked out so you can't change them.

I was able to change Snedeker and it saved. He is not yet qualified for the Masters. I can't find a player who is qualified so I am not sure they are not players short for this week.

I think they got their list of players to choose from from the betting, as opposed to the field, and thus there are a couple in the list who are not yet qualified.

What is not simple to understand is whether a round is a round, or whether it is an event. The Rugby used to be changeable mid event, then it changed to the actual weekend.

Golfballix wrote: »

There are two things going around, not every qualified player is there in the list to be picked, and The when you picked a player you are locked out so you can't change them.

I was able to change Snedeker and it saved. He is not yet qualified for the Masters. I can't find a player who is qualified so I am not sure they are not players short for this week.

I think they got their list of players to choose from from the betting, as opposed to the field, and thus there are a couple in the list who are not yet qualified.

What is not simple to understand is whether a round is a round, or whether it is an event. The Rugby used to be changeable mid event, then it changed to the actual weekend.

I'm 99% a round is classed as a tournament. In the rules point 2, Season 2018 Key dates: it has a chart with all the tournaments listed it says round on the left hand side of that round 1 Masters, Round 2 RBC Heritage Round 3 Texas Open, Trophee Hassan etc etc.....

Further down in the rules you have 'Transfers'

You can make unlimited Transfers to your team before the start of Round 1 (The Masters)

Again referring to the masters as round 1...


Bonus Transfer Codes

• Each Round, The Irish Times will publish a Bonus Transfer Code in the newspaper
• The codes will be published on the Tuesday and Wednesday before the beginning of a Round

Again I think this is clarifying the situation the codes will be out midweek before a round 1.e a tournament

jimmers wrote: »

At the moment on the official US Master website, there are only 86 players listed in the field for the tournament next week and half a dozen of them are the amateur competitors so options are going to be limited. From memory, The Masters does have a smaller field than the other majors. The field will be increased after this weekend's tournaments. However, of necessity everyone will probably have at least one of the 4.0m competitors in their team.

Think the Heritage nearly always comes after the Masters and players go there who are accurate. You need to know who is entered there before the Masters or with just two subs you may have no team!

jimmers wrote: »

There are 4 transfers - 2 given automatically and another 2 with the bonus code.
You are correct with regard to the Heritage tournament. However the field for the Heritage will not be confirmed before you finalise your team for the Masters.

The Provisional Field https://rbcheritage.com/news/2018-rbc-heritage-provisional-field

They have added a few more names but not everyone. Poulter was added. Maybe the people running the game are football fans, and this is just a fantasy game to them. Not sure they are overly knowledgeable about golf....

Golfballix wrote: »

They have added a few more names but not everyone. Poulter was added. Maybe the people running the game are football fans, and this is just a fantasy game to them. Not sure they are overly knowledgeable about golf....

I emailed the company running it, and they confirmed the following:

• Additional players will be added each week, depending on the field.
• Additional functionality will be added during the competition where you will be able to see players chosen by other competitors.
• There is no plans to change the naming nomenclature to include the first name and surname of players.

Clauric wrote: »

I emailed the company running it, and they confirmed the following:

• Additional players will be added each week, depending on the field.
• Additional functionality will be added during the competition where you will be able to see players chosen by other competitors.
• There is no plans to change the naming nomenclature to include the first name and surname of players.

The first scoring European Tour event in the game is not until Week 3. Presumably for Week 2 the US Tour players not competing in the Masters will be added and the European players will then be added the following week.

rosshoulihan wrote: »

I searched . Didn't look like it.

Tgere are random public leagues though

Clauric wrote: »

I emailed the company running it, and they confirmed the following:

• Additional players will be added each week, depending on the field.
• Additional functionality will be added during the competition where you will be able to see players chosen by other competitors.
• There is no plans to change the naming nomenclature to include the first name and surname of players.

Silly to be asking about the ability to see other players chosen by competitors before deadline.

Are you not able to make your own mind up!?

Two Limerick based leagues here for anyone:

JJ Bowles Pub: https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#classic/leagues/100538/join/YFU7RK9W

Limerick Golf League: https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#classic/leagues/100400/join/WSHNJZD6

Rossie11 wrote: »

when does the lockout lift for rd 1 to make the transfers?

from the 'game-guidelines'

The Lockout will be lifted once all tournaments in the Round have completed and weekly scores have been updated
Once the Lockout has been lifted, your team will be assigned two (2) Transfers to make ahead of the upcoming Round

So Sunday night/Monday morning

https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#help/game-guidelines

Not doing so well already and only two rounds into the first competition. Anyone have any outsiders doing particularly well at the moment?