Thursday, September 30, 2010

Viking Classic

The USA PGA Tour is now playing the extended season tournaments (i.e. the tournaments after the FedEx Playoff events), with the first of the tournaments being played in Mississippi, the Viking Championship.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Viking Championship.

# Player CLi
1 Charlie Wi   14.0
2 Woody Austin  15.0
3 Jonathan Byrd  17.1
4 Bill Haas  17.4
5 David Toms  18.3
6 Troy Matteson  18.6
7 Boo Weekley  19.8
8 D.J. Trahan  23.7
9 Will MacKenzie  24.8
10 Brett Wetterich  25.9
11 Brett Quigley  26.7
12 Rocco Mediate  27.0
13 Aaron Baddeley  28.2
14 Heath Slocum  35.2
15 Chad Campbell  37.4

I am going to stick with the top 5 in the CLi rankings: Wi, Austin, Byrd, Haas, and Toms.

Don't have time to explain why, except to say that I am just going with the formula.

Below are my 5 picks for the Viking Championship :

# Player CLi
1 Charlie Wi   14.0
2 Woody Austin  15.0
3 Jonathan Byrd  17.1
4 Bill Haas  17.4
5 David Toms  18.3


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

  1. D.J. Trahan
  2. Charlie Wi
  3. Bill Haas
  4. Heath Slocum
  5. Tom Gillis
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: Viking Championship

We have 2 players in common this week: Wi and Haas.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Viking Championship :

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)
60 5% 5%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA3) Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
6 20% 20%

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