The Masters - Preview - CLi as of 2012-03-27

This is a continuation of the posts from the past two weeks where I am posting the CLi results for the Masters, which is next week.  Schwartzel, Mickelson, Woods, Rose, and Westwood topped the list two weeks ago (on 2012-03-13), and Mickelson, Woods, Rose, Schwartzel, and Van Pelt topped the list last week (on 2012-03-22).  I have rerun the CLi calculation again to include last week's tournaments to see if there are any changes.  Below are the top 5 players in the CLi rankings as of today (2012-03-27):

#	Player	CLi
1	Tiger Woods	2.45
2	Charl Schwartzel	7.55
3	Bo Van Pelt	8.65
4	Justin Rose	10.40
5	Lee Westwood	10.85

This week Woods moved from 2nd to 1st due to his win last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and Mickelson falling down the list. Mickelson fell from 1st to 8th since his good finishes this year are more than four weeks out (look at why that is important by examining the configuration of the CLi below), and other players in the field that are ranked above him have finished well in the recent tournaments. 

McIlroy moved from 7th to 6th (mainly because Mickelson fell from 1st to 8th), while Stricker fell from 8th to 10th.  Donald is now 7th.

This is the last of the Masters posts before next week's Tour Outsider posting against the Tour Insider).  It has been interesting to see how the rankings have changed over the past several weeks.

So you know the settings I used to calculate these rankings, below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the calculation:

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%