Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Honda Classic

This week the US PGA Tour moves to the east coast to start the Florida swing with the Honda Classic.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Honda Classic.

# Player CLi
1 Ernie Els 5.35
2 Y.E. Yang 6.45
3 Rory McIlroy 10.25
4 Robert Allenby 10.55
5 Camilo Villegas 12.45
6 Padraig Harrington 13.50
7 Tim Clark 17.50
8 Scott Piercy 17.75
9 Steve Marino 19.85
10 Stephen Ames 22.45
11 John Rollins 24.65
12 Sergio Garcia 24.75
13 Paul Goydos 31.05
14 Mark Wilson 33.75
15 Spencer Levin 34.70

I am going to pick 5 players from the top 6 in the CLi rankings: Els, Yang, Allenby, Villegas, and Harrington. I skiped over McIlroy, as he is an unknown quantity in this tournament and the other 5 players in the top 6 tend to play well at the Honda. McIlroy could easily play well this week, but the 5 players I picked also have a great chance to play well.

Below are my 5 picks for the Honda Classic:

# Player CLi
1 Ernie Els 5.35
2 Y.E. Yang 6.45
3 Robert Allenby 10.55
4 Camilo Villegas 12.45
5 Padraig Harrington 13.50

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

  1. Robert Allenby
  2. Y.E. Yang
  3. Sergio Garcia
  4. Ernie Els
  5. Charles Howell III

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: Honda Classic

We have 3 players in common this week: Allenby, Yang, and Els.

So far this year my picks have been doing rather well. However, I have lost the first 4 tournaments to Bolton. Hopefully this week I can turn it around.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Honda Classic:

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA1) Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
5 25% 25%
Number of Days Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA2) Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
30 5% 5%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA3) Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
4 20% 20%

2 comments:

  1. John,

    I like Els, McIlroy, Yang, Harrington, and Allenby this week. I also like Garcia this week, but couldn't fit him in my top 5.

    Baummer

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  2. What happened with Yang, Allenby, and Garcia this week? They kind of had difficulty in the first round.

    - JM

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