Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Cadillac Championship

The US PGA Tour has two tournaments this week: the Cadillac Championship and Puerto Rico Championship. This post is for the Cadillac Championship.

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

# Player CLi 
1 Tiger Woods 5.50
2 Phil Mickelson 6.20
3 Bill Haas 9.80
4 Matt Kuchar 12.95
5 Steve Stricker 13.05
6 Dustin Johnson 14.90
7 Rory McIlroy 15.25
8 Charl Schwartzel 16.95
9 John Senden 17.50
10 Sergio Garcia 17.75
11 Lee Westwood 18.60
12 Aaron Baddeley 22.65
13 Justin Rose 22.95
14 Zach Johnson
24.35
15 Jason Dufner 25.05

As with last week, I am not going to provide much in terms of explanation for my picks as I am late in posting my picks.

Woods (analysis) is back on top of the CLi rankings for the first time in a long time, with Mickelson (analysis) not far behind him.  These are two big players that are hard to go against when they are playing well.  The next two players are playing well, Haas (analysis) and Kuchar (analysis).  Those are the top 4 players in the CLi rankings.  For the 5th player I am going to skip over my stalwarth and fellow Illinois alumni, Stricker (analysis), and long-hitting Johnson (analysis) to pick the hot handed McIlroy (analysis).

Below are my 5 picks for the Cadillac Championship:

# Player CLi 
1 Tiger Woods 5.50
2 Phil Mickelson 6.20
3 Bill Haas 9.80
4 Matt Kuchar 12.95
5 Rory McIlroy 15.25

Below are the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:
  1. Rory McIlroy
  2. Tiger Woods
  3. Charl Schwartzel
  4. Lee Westwood
  5. Dustin Johnson
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: Cadillac Championship

We have 2 players in common this week: McIlroy and Woods.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Cadillac 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)
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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