Accenture Match Play Championship

This week the US PGA Tour has two tournaments, with one of them starting on Wednesday. The Accenture Match Play Championship starts on Wednesday, with the Mayakoba Classic starting on Thursday. Since I am late in posting this week, I will do a brief posting on things for the Accenture tournament in this posting and then will add my picks for the Mayakoba tournament tomorrow in a separate posting.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Accenture Match Play Championship.

#	Player	CLi
1	Rory McIlroy	24.60
2	Steve Stricker	28.10
3	Ian Poulter	28.70
4	Luke Donald	29.10
5	Geoff Ogilvy	29.70
6	Stewart Cink	30.70
7	Ernie Els	30.70
8	Robert Allenby	31.30
9	Ben Crane	32.10
10	Tim Clark	32.40
11	Sean O'Hair	32.50
12	Dustin Johnson	32.70
13	Padraig Harrington	32.80
14	David Toms	33.10
15	Retief Goosen	33.90

The CLi has a tough time with match play events, as do many calculations and experts. You can see this in the high CLi figures, which implies that the CLi doesn't think there is any real favorite in the tournament. That said, I am still going to stick with the top 5 in the CLi rankings as they look like good picks. McIlroy is the suspect pick, even though he is at the top of the list. He has only played this event once, finishing 5th last year. So it will be interesting to see how the youngster does.

Below are my 5 picks for the Accenture Match Play Championship:

#	Player	CLi
1	Rory McIlroy	24.60
2	Steve Stricker	28.10
3	Ian Poulter	28.70
4	Luke Donald	29.10
5	Geoff Ogilvy	29.70

Below is the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:

1. Lee Westwood
2. Steve Stricker
3. Paul Casey
4. Tim Clark
5. Ian Poulter

Here is a link to Bolton's Power Rankings so that you can read more about his thoughts on his top players in this week's Power Rankings:

Bolton's Power Rankings: Accenture Match Play Championship

We have 2 players in common this week: Stricker and Poulter.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Accenture Match Play Championship:

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA1)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
5	30%	30%
Number of Days Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA2)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
30	10%	10%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA3)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
4	10%	10%