FedEx Cup Playoffs

[cato]

killerleft is in the catbird seat.

team killerleft:

Justin Thomas
Justin Rose
Jordan Spieth
B DeChambeau
Tiger Woods

[killerleft]

killerleft is in the catbird seat.

I'm counting no chickens yet. But it's my team's to lose, that's for sure. It would be nice if Tiger finished it off.

[killerleft]

Yay, me? Great to see Tiger win, no matter what. Rose seemed happy for some reason.

[sagegrouse]

The Four Horsemen of the High Sage finished OK this week.

#1 - Woods
T7 - Justin T.
T21 Molinari
T27 Koepka

I assume most people picked El Tigre at an el cheapo price. Still puzzled by Molinari, who was the best player in the world for a couple of months and did nothing in the playoffs (even failing to show up for one tournament).

Anyway, it was a fun event, once I figured out what OWGR meant.

[Tripping William]

The Four Horsemen of the High Sage finished OK this week.

#1 - Woods
T7 - Justin T.
T21 Molinari
T27 Koepka

I assume most people picked El Tigre at an el cheapo price. Still puzzled by Molinari, who was the best player in the world for a couple of months and did nothing in the playoffs (even failing to show up for one tournament).

Anyway, it was a fun event, once I figured out what OWGR meant.

My six guys were in the top 15:

1 - Woods
T4 - Simpson
T7 - Thomas
T11 - Rahm
T11 - Casey
T15 - Finau

It's not going to be enough, although I anxiously await the audited results.

[JasonEvans]

Really good weekend for Team Evans. I have not looked but we may have won this week:

Woods - 1
Johnson - 3
Simpson - 4
Rose - 4
Reed - 28

But, there is so little difference in many of the placings I am sure I won't catch our leader. For example, the difference in finishing 4th ($372k) and finishing in last place this week ($144k) was only $230,000. First and second place made a lot, but the others just didn't move the needle all that much.

[cato]

Really good weekend for Team Evans. I have not looked but we may have won this week:

Woods - 1
Johnson - 3
Simpson - 4
Rose - 4
Reed - 28

But, there is so little difference in many of the placings I am sure I won't catch our leader. For example, the difference in finishing 4th ($372k) and finishing in last place this week ($144k) was only $230,000. First and second place made a lot, but the others just didn't move the needle all that much.

Considering that you basically throw out the winnings for Woods and Rose, my guess is that you didn’t make up all that much ground.

Congrats to killerleft. You picked the winner of all three tournaments, right?

[JasonEvans]

Considering that you basically throw out the winnings for Woods and Rose, my guess is that you didn’t make up all that much ground.

Yup, as I noted a few pages back, to win I needed DJ, Simpson, and Reed to finish like 1-2-3... oh well.

But, I suspect I may have finished second to Killerleft, which is not bad considering KL absolutely destroyed in picking these four tournaments (winner, winner, runner up, winner).

[Indoor66]

Would it be possible to have a gambling thread so that discussion in a FedEx Cup Playoff thread was actually about golf?

[cato]

Would it be possible to have a gambling thread so that discussion in a FedEx Cup Playoff thread was actually about golf?

No gambling here, although I’m sure you realized that. Perhaps you can bump one of the FedEx Cup threads from years past?

I do wish there were more discussion of the actual golf, but only the majors (and then, only really the two Opens and the Masters) seem to generate actual discussion.

[CDu]

Would it be possible to have a gambling thread so that discussion in a FedEx Cup Playoff thread was actually about golf?

You do realize that the only reason this thread was started was because of the pick’em contest, right? I mean, the original post is even talking about getting your picks in..

[killerleft]

Considering that you basically throw out the winnings for Woods and Rose, my guess is that you didn’t make up all that much ground.

Congrats to killerleft. You picked the winner of all three tournaments, right?

Thanks. DeChambeau made me look like a genius. But my guys won three of four, as Jason said. And the week my top guy finished second, I don't think anyone picked the winner.

[mr. synellinden]

Congrats to Jason Evans for winning the Tour Championship, but like Tiger it wasn't enough to win the FedEx Cup - those congratulations go to killerleft who had a killer four tournament showing and was the wire to wire winner.

Also congrats to CameronBornandBred who, according to mkirsh, won the BMW Championship on an unaudited basis. Here are the results for the Tour Championship. I will have the "semi-audited" BMW results and the overall results up shortly.

Thanks all for playing this season. I think I read it's 200 days until the Masters.


Jason Evans - 3,130,600
mr. synellinden - 2,998,500
Tripping William - 2,913,600
Tbyers11 - 2,833,500
Rich - 2,700,900
CameronBornandBred - 2,660,100
Rasputin - 2,530,800
CDu - 2,486,100
cato - 2,466,450
killerleft - 2,448,300
Curtis325 - 2,434,950
mkirsh - 2,275,650
sagegrouse - 2,214,000
HouseP - 1,051,200
Bob Green - 977,700

[CameronBornAndBred]

Also congrats to CameronBornandBred who, according to mkirsh, won the BMW Championship on an unaudited basis.

Still waiting on my car...
Huge congrats to Killerleft.

[mr. synellinden]

Sorry for the very long delay on this, but we knew who the winner was thanks to mkirsh. Congrats to CB&B.

CameronBornandBred - 1,850,580
Jason Evans - 1,781,280
killerleft - 1,603,350
Curtis325 - 1,503,270
CDu - 1,489,050
mr. synellinden - 1,270,485
tbyers11 - 1,185,480
Tripping William - 1,141,200
cato - 1,114,830
Rasputin - 903,150
mkirsh - 881,370
sagegrouse - 862,830
Bob Green - 740,970
Rich - 669,690
HouseP - 372,780

[mr. synellinden]

Here are the four tournament totals. This thing was over after week 2 thanks to Bryson DeChambeau.

Congrats again to killerleft. This was a lot of fun - I hope others enjoyed it. Definitely a historic end to the PGA season.

killerleft - 8,993,881
mr. synellinden - 7,346,059
Jason Evans - 6,643,826
CameronBornandBred - 6,396,883
tbyers11 - 6,256,633
Tripping William - 6,064,656
cato - 5,955,399
CDu - 5,906,041
Curtis325 - 4,777,461
Rich - 4,422,068
mkirsh - 4,241,701
Rasputin - 4,172,214
sagegrouse - 3,934,561
Bob Green - 2,775,133
HouseP - 2,637,983

[Bob Green]

Not a good performance by Team Green, which motivates me to pick better next season.

[CDu]

Here are the four tournament totals. This thing was over after week 2 thanks to Bryson DeChambeau.

Congrats again to killerleft. This was a lot of fun - I hope others enjoyed it. Definitely a historic end to the PGA season.

killerleft - 8,993,881
mr. synellinden - 7,346,059
Jason Evans - 6,643,826
CameronBornandBred - 6,396,883
tbyers11 - 6,256,633
Tripping William - 6,064,656
cato - 5,955,399
CDu - 5,906,041
Curtis325 - 4,777,461
Rich - 4,422,068
mkirsh - 4,241,701
Rasputin - 4,172,214
sagegrouse - 3,934,561
Bob Green - 2,775,133
HouseP - 2,637,983

I think that actually undersells killerleft’s performance. He or she picked 3 of the 4 winners and 2 of the 4 runners-up, with some top-5s sprinkled in too. Things were still in play going into the BMW. But with Rose’s second there and none of us picking the winner, that pretty much sealed the deal.

If someone like Day or Koepka or McIlroy had won it two weeks ago, this weekend might have been interesting. Of course Woods winning this week slammed the door on all of us anyway, as killerleft was one of the 9 that had Tiger, meaning nobody could gain real ground.

Just a really impressive set of four tourneys, including picking the highest-finishing picked performer in all four events.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Huge shout of thanks to HouseP, for being brave and taking the top 3 (and most expensive) for his team. That was an experiment I was totally curious about.
There is no way I would have predicted it would have earned last place, one of the reasons I was pretty tempted by the choice myself.

Will have to keep tabs for the next few years and see if the "best team" is continually low, or if this was an anomaly.

[killerleft]

Thanks to all, and thanks especially to Bryson DeChambeau. He was the wild card, of course. That maverick swing helped me choose him. I actually tried the Natural Golf swing for a week or two, but it quickly became apparent that the change was too drastic for me.