Fantasy Golf Picks

I’m giving myself points for picking winners.  Hopefully my picks can help you win your fantasy golf league this season.  My goal is to get to 111 points for the season, or the equivlant of picking a Top 3 finisher or better each week, based on the point scale below:

Winner = 10 points

2nd Place = 5 points

3rd Place = 3 points

Top 10 = 1 point

Leaderboard

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.

Last Week:

All in all not a bad week.  I got 3 points for Simpson’s 3rd place finish but neither Haas nor Vegas sniffed a Top 10.  That Vegas finished dead last luckily does not count against me.  But most important, the PGA Tour season is now in swing.  And what better way to bring in the new year than a Steve Stricker “hang-on” win.  Seems Stricky is always getting out to big leads, only to lose them, only to win in the end. 

This Week:

Mark Wilson defends in the first full field event of the new season.  We also get our first look at 2012 rookies and Q-school grads.  And weather permitting, should be lots of birdies in the forecast.  Being the second tournament of the season I would suggest to play it safe this week (in most Fantasy Golf formats).   

Steve Stricker

Speaking of Stricky, it’s Stricky to rock a rhyme to rock a rhyme that’s right on time, it’s Stricky.  Stricky, Stricky Stricky Stricky.  (Weird side thought, why aren’t their rap songs about golfers?  Or are there?)  This could be the year for Steve.  Already a win under his belt, he looks to be on his way to a stellar 2012 campaign.  Will he get that pesky major win out the way?  We’ll have to wait til April to get an idea but til then don’t miss Strick in your lineup.  Coming off a win this is a no brainer pick, as he has four Top 10’s in his last five starts at the Sony.  He should be all but a lock for another Top 10 and dare I say it, two wins to start the year?  That would be Stricky.

K.J. Choi

Quietly Choi goes on about his business.  With seven Top 10’s in 2011 to go with a win at the Players, Choi is already off to a great start in 2012.  Finishing T5 last week, K.J. is another solid pick, having won here in 2008 and three career Top 10s.  He did miss the cut last year but coming off a Top 10 I don’t foresee that happening this time around.  Choi is streaky (look at his run in spring of 2011) so pick him when he’s hot.

Steve Marino

You wouldn’t know Steve Marino if he wasn’t Dan Marino’s brother (which he’s not) so why mention him here?  How about three Top 10’s here in four starts with a T2 in 2011.  Marino got off to a good start last season before being chewed up by the summer majors and never recoving.  Still with two 2nd place finishes he secured his card for 2012 with ease, 39th on the Money List.   Won’t be picking Mr. Marino a lot during the season unless he gets hot, but this a great place to gain points on the field.

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.

Fantasy Golf Picks

Whoa, what an offseason!  You may have noticed we “disappeared” for awhile these last few months.  To make a long story short we had some technical difficulties with our (ungracious) host and had to move the domain.  What a pain.

That said things are still a little hectic here at Shlink Lincoln Sports headquarters but I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to give some updates on all things SLS and Rotoff.   We will continue weekly Fantasy Golf blog posts during the PGA Tour season and (fingers crossed) hope to launch two Fantasy Golf games this year at Rotoff.com.  These games have been years in the making but I promise when they are ready it will be well worth the wait.

The 2012 Rotoff Golf Draft Kit will be released as a free guide this year.  We tweaked our ranking calculations which put us way behind schedule to launch the Draft Kit before the season.  However it will still be released soon and for FREE.  Stay tuned here for more updates. 

We are also frantically at work on the FGDB (Fantasy Golf Data Base) which will be a date base of every PGA Tour golfer and their stats for seasons, tournaments, etc. and will include rolling rankings.  This will be launched at Rotoff.com simultaneously with our Fantasy Golf games. 

So, lots on the plate.  I want to thank all of our supporters.  The fact that you’re reading this shows that you didn’t give up on us when the site went down.  Thank you, thank you.

And now to the fun part.  It’s PGA Tour time ya’ll!

I’m giving myself points for picking winners.  Hopefully my picks can help you win your fantasy golf league this season.  My goal is to get to 111 points for the season, or the equivlant of picking a Top 3 finisher or better each week, based on the point scale below:

Winner = 10 points

2nd Place = 5 points

3rd Place = 3 points

Top 10 = 1 point

Leaderboard

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.

Last season:  I was on hiatus last year and many thanks to Eric McClung for his work on the blog in 2011.  We hope to have him back this year for some guest post stints. 

Fantasy Golf was good to me in 2011.  I had my best year yet as a Yahoo! Fantasy Golf Expert and had a two shot lead after 3 rounds in the SLS Cup Final of our Rotoff Golf league.  That Webb Simpson shot three over par in the final round of the Tour Championship has all been forgiven.  

And what a year on the PGA Tour.  Forget Tiger, how about the young guns stepping up.  Webb, Rory, Haas, et all.  With the “old” timers that I’ve come to love reaching their swan song, it’s great to see the PGA Tour with such a bright future.

Alright, enough babbling, let’s get to the picks.

Webb Simpson

Simpson is coming off a career year in which he won twice and finished runner up in the FedEx Cup.  Not bad for someone we had ranked 89th going into 2011.  Can he repeat the feat in 2012?  I will have to give a resounding YES.  Not only will Simpson have another stellar year but look for him to become a dominant golfer (always a threat to win every week).  I’m guaranteeing a win for Simpson in 2012 and it could even come in the first event of the year.   Iit will be another big year for Webbster who makes his first start at Kapalua.

Bill Haas

Did anyone get odds on Haas to win the FedEx cup?  Would have to imagine they were long shot odds.  Does anyone want to bet he’ll win two in a row?  While that is probably unlikely, it was still impressive to see Haas’ breakthrough in 2011.  This is his second straight start at Kapalua were finished 8th last season.  I expect at least another Top 10 this week. 

Jhonattan Vegas

Vegas baby!  Jhonattan Vegas exploded last January with a win at the Bob Hope (now Humana Challenge) and a 3rd place the next week in San Diego.  Unfortunately he didn’t do much else the rest of the season, finishing no better than T31 the rest of the year.  But hey, he get’s to play in the season opener.  Look for Mr. Vegas to get back on track in the early going and with a year of the PGA Tour under his belt expect more consistency into the summer.  Predicting a Top 10 or better for Vegas who sees Kapalua for the first time. 

Please post your picks along with me and we will be keeping score all season long.  Winner will receive a prize to be determined.  Just post your picks below in the comments section.

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Standard calcutta format:

• Deadline: The calcutta ends Wednesday April 6th at 4:00 PM Eastern.

• Payment: Person handling the collection of money TBD.  The only accepted payment methods are checks and cash.  

NOTE:

a) No partial payments if you split a golfer!!! It’s too much of a hassle to keep track of.  The person who actually won the bid is responsible for the entire amount.  

b) Be able to make your payment within 24 hours of the end of the bidding.  If this is not possible, have someone else bid for you who can.

c) A small administration fee of $100 will be deducted from the total prize pool
Please remember the 30 minute rule (formerly “one hour rule”):

• The One 30 Minute Rule: This rule is put into place to squash any attempts to sandbag bids at the last minute.

If a bid is placed in the last 30 minutes of the Calcutta (i.e. between 3:30 and 4:00 PM on Wednseday April 6th) then an additional 30 minutes of bidding time (from the time of said bid) will be added for the player being bid upon.
This will continue to happen as long as the bidding for the player continues. 

Example: If someone bids on Tiger Woods at 3:56 PM on the 6th, Tiger’s deadline will be extended until 4:26 PM. If someone then bid again on Tiger, at say 4:12 PM, then his deadline would be further extended to 4:42 PM.

• Betting Minimum: Each player will begin with a bet of  no less than $10. Bidding increments go up as the bids get higher.

• The Field: There WILL be a Field Bid, however it will not be available until the main bidding period ends at 4:00 PM on Wednesday, April 5th.  At that point, all players who have not received a bid, will be included in “The Field”.  Bidding will continue as per the 30 Minute Rule set forth above.

• Prize Structure: Four prizes, split will be 40%, 30%, 20%, and 10% of prize pool.

• Sign Up: You will be required to register before you place a bid. PLEASE, ONLY USE YOUR REAL NAME!!!

• Email Notification: You will (should) receive an email notification indicating that your bet has been accepted. You will (should) also receive an e-mail notification when someone places an Outbid on a player that you had action on.   There have been issues in the past with emails, so please don’t rely on them! 

Contact info:

Queries about payment:

Coming soon…

Any other queries:

Ben Zeidenberg:  bzeidenberg (at) akanda (dot) com


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Update Sunday night: The final scoring is complete. With Luke Donald’s win, Wiles is your Match Play Bracket Challenge winner!

Ah yes it’s that special time of year again!  March Madness in the middle of February.  Shlink Lincoln Sports is proud to announce the 2nd annual Rotoff Golf Match Play Bracket Challenge.

Download the 2011 WGC-Accenture Match Play Bracket below:

http://rotoff.shlinklincolnsports.com/2011-wgc-accenture-match-play-championship-bracket.xls

Save the excel sheet to your computer.  Fill in all the winners and enter your information on the Championship+ tab*.  Save your bracket and  email to

admin @ shlinklincolnsports dot com

Points will be awarded based on the following scale:

1st Round Winner:  1 Point

2nd Round Winner: 2 Points

3rd Round Winner: 4 Points

4th Round Winner: 8 Points

5th Round Winner: 16 Points

6th Round Winner (Champion): 32 Points

Bonus points will also be awarded for upsets in the 1st Round based on the difference in seeds.  For example if you pick a 16 over a 1 seed you would get 15 bonus points (16-1).  Bonus points will be awarded for the 1st round only for all correct upset seed picks.  The person with the most points at the conclusion of the tournament will win a Shlink Lincoln Sports baseball cap ($25 value).  See excel sheet for official rules and directions.

2011 Rotoff Golf Match Play Bracket Challenge

Leaderboard

(teams listed alphabetically.  colums are sortable, click on “Rank” or “Total Points”)

The following are the scoring averages for the three courses of the 2011 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. 

Round 1 Scoring Averages:

Monterey Peninsula Country Club:  70.71

Pebble Beach Golf Links:  72.46

Spyglass Hill Golf Course:  72.44

Round 2 Scoring Averages:

Monterey Peninsula Country Club:  69.29

Pebble Beach Golf Links:  71.40

Spyglass Hill Golf Course:  72.68

Round 3 Scoring Averages:

Monterey Peninsula Country Club:  69.52

Pebble Beach Golf Links:  72.10

Spyglass Hill Golf Course:  72.06