Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Honda Classic

The US PGA Tour finished up its West Coast swing last week and is headed to Florida this week to play the Honda Classic.

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

# Player CLi 
1 Ben Crane 3.20
2 Robert Allenby 10.20
3 Lee Westwood 10.20
4 John Rollins 11.65
5 Kyle Stanley 16.00
6 Spencer Levin 18.60
7 Fredrik Jacobson 20.40
8 Graeme McDowell 21.35
9 Mark Wilson 21.55
10 Ricky Barnes 22.20
11 Matthew Every 22.60
12 Rory McIlroy 24.40
13 Charlie Wi 25.05
14 Charl Schwartzel 27.70
15 Justin Rose 31.60

I am not going to provide much in terms of explanation for my picks as I am late in posting my picks (have been focused on my dissertation this week).

Crane (analysis) is a clear favorite per the low CLi figure (3.20) and the next best CLi figure being 10.20.  So I will go with him.  For the next two picks, I will stick with the next two players in the CLi rankings: Allenby (analysis) and Westwood (analysis).  Then I will skip down to Stanley (analysis) and Jacobson (analysis).

Below are my 5 picks for the Honda Classic:

# Player CLi 
1 Ben Crane 3.20
2 Robert Allenby 10.20
3 Lee Westwood 10.20
4 Kyle Stanley 16.00
5 Fredrik Jacobson 20.40

Below are the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:
  1. Ben Crane
  2. Rory McIlroy
  3. Mark Wilson
  4. Charl Schwartzel
  5. Lee Westwood
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 2 players in common this week: Crane and Westwood.

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%

If you don't like the configuration of my CLi calculation, feel free to run your own CLi calculation with your own desired settings by going to golfcli.com.

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