Our 15th season is in the books and it was a
relatively unique season in a few different statistical categories. The average
winning score was -7, more than 2 strokes lower than last season and the
average margin of victory was 4.111, which is the second most ever to the 4.333
average in the Summer ’15 season. There were three events where two players
tied for the victory, which has never happened before in league history.
Speaking of ties and league history, only once have three players tied for the
win. Chandler, Geoff, and Faz tied to win the Chandler Classic at Heritage
Harbor in the Spring ’14 season with a winning score of +4! That’s tied for the
highest winning score in league history.
The 1,640 points that Mike earned to win this season’s
cup is the lowest ever. The next lowest was Katie’s total of 1,841.7 in the
Spring ’17 season. Not surprisingly, his 205 points per event is also the
lowest to ever win a cup. It would have been interesting to see what would have
happened if Brian played in more than four events and if John and Gary didn’t
have to each miss an event toward the end of the season but Mike did exactly
what he needed to do to by finishing 2nd, 1st, 2nd
in the final three events. He had one terrible event, a +11 in the Match Play
at Cypress Creek, but other than that he played consistently well and if you
remove that one score, his average net score would be -1.5.
As for the overall stats that I keep every season, not
many surprises in terms of who is best/worst in each category. Dave and Brian played
the best golf on paper but both of them are considered statistically irrelevant
since Dave played in three events and Brian played in four. Gorecki had a very
solid season compared to past seasons, hence him being one of the six players
that could have still won the cup after eight events. His average net score was
+0.375, more than 3 strokes better than last season and just a slight
improvement to the incredible average net score of +11.875!!! from Summer ’17.
If you think that’s impressive, our man Smedium John dropped his average net
score from fucking +15 last season to +2! He dropped his average net score 1.3
pitchers in one season, wild stuff. And if you find statistical anomalies at
all interesting, do yourself a favor and check out his recent handicap index
history.
Adam - league worst front to back nine gross average: 3.143. Not a closer.
ReplyDeleteJohn - league best in same category: -4.429.
Maybe John takes awhile to wake up, meaning he actually hates early tee times.
Great job as always collecting and posting these stats Faz. I mentioned to Chandler earlier this week that I didn't think my record low total of 15 points from Summer 17 could ever be overthrown and here this season Katie earned a total of 5 points. So of course he rebutted and said we equally suck with a cumulative total of 1.67 points earned per event lol.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of suck... any way to post how many eagles/birdies the league scored cumulatively this season vs the +5 gross max scores? I feel that the league is pretty even when categorizing members as plus/minus "bogey plus" golfers so I'm curious to compare how many holes members score below par vs the max score par this season.
I don’t think anyone will beat Gorecki’s 9 tournament 15 point season. John came close in the spring with 22.5 points coming in 8 tournaments, 20 of which came in the final tournament of the season. We’ll see which feat of awfulness is topped: the streak or the season of shit.
ReplyDeletePretty sure we can also safely conclude that the +5 rule was a success. Good job, Board of Directors.
ReplyDeleteCumulatively as a league we made 63 birdies and 1 eagle. We made 116 double pars or worse, 42 of which were +5 max.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the research. Wow, almost twice as many double pars than below par scores. Wouldn't have guessed it would be that high of a percentage. Sigh too bad we suck.
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