Donn Beach wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2026 1:02 am
D-train wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:59 pm
Donn Beach wrote:Thu Mar 12, 2026 11:51 pm
I'm curious, why limit it to six players?
Should you be able to pick every single guy in the tournament? Mike has to keep track of all this stuff. When I did it, it was only 3.
Yeah, I was thinking the limiting factor being the $100 to spend. Need a program to run it
The format we use for the Masters is the classic one: everyone picks three players, then you can make subs for the final two rounds. Simple, and it still works fine for that event.
But once a few people wanted more tournaments — all four majors and even the FedEx — subs became unmanageable. Time zones and people's engagement kill it. For example, at The Open, Round 3 starts around 3am PDT. Who’s waking up to make changes? And if people don’t bother, the whole thing breaks down.
So I switched to a format that’s easier to run : pick 5, best 3 scores count. The problem was that people often had only 2 players make the cut, which kills the competition. Bumping it to 6 players turned out to be the sweet spot — most people still have 3 active on the weekend.
For the protagonists, it’s simple: pick your team a few days before the event, forget about it, and just watch. And of course it’s easier for me when it comes to scoring. I must be allowed a little discretion to make my own life easier, surely? Someone has to add all this up, after all.
The real issue is golf itself: you can score over par so we can't have teams with more players than others. If you don’t have a player on the course, you can actually move up the leaderboard because zero is a great score on some setups. You can actually benefit by having all your players eliminated in the first two days. Especially on tricky low scoring courses like Augusta and both Opens.
