Re: Bluemoon Golf Competition 2013
Interesting week where a number of teams scored big points and Phuket Blue stretched his lead as we head towards the US Open, here's the table:
1) PhuketBlue 8480
2) Matthew Cojeen 7370
3) jerseyblue 6750
4) The cookie monster 6705
5) TaxiforCreaney 6685
6) Balti 6530
7) leighton 6090
8) Carstairs 6000
9) angleseyblue 5925
10) mindmyp's_n_q's 5845
11) bluesmith 5645
12) mancmackem 5275
13) simonr555 4960
14) Wizard 4785
15) JoeMercer'sWay 4610
16) niall'sdiscoshorts 4510
17) Rammy Blue 4490
18) bluemonkey71 4185
19) mcfc_nick 4105
20) RH 4050
21) ReturnoftheMac 4035
22) cptaidan88 3995
23) City Raider 3815
24) BimboBob 3715
25) newenglandblue 3670
26) Poynton Blue 3440
27) sky tot 3310
28) Biggsy1 3305
29) Garrinchas---Dog 3275
30) ickle~blue 3060
31) Brisblu 2940
32) manc73 2820
33) jay_mcfc 2815
34) Tenerife Blue 2690
35) abu13 2535
36) homerdog 2330
37) maccadon 2285
38) bluestevei 2105
39) ohfk 2060
Thought it would be interesting to compare the points scoring for this year against last year and see how things may have changed with the new entry system, so I've found the corresponding table for this time last year:
1) Feed-The-Goat 8610
2) Carstairs 7545
3) leighton 7195
4) homerdog 7180
5) bluemonkey71 7070
6) BimboBob 6835
7) tilbz 6790
8) simonr555 6770
9) The cookie monster 6670
10) JoeMercer'sWay 6605
11) sput the wonder pig 6295
12) Hamann Pineapple 6285
13) jay_mcfc 6155
14) jerseyblue 6105
15) Trigger 5965
16) CityTwang 5830
17) Ntini77 5700
18) MATCITY 5690
19) PhuketBlue 5400
20) brian the blue 5200
21) mcfc_nick 5025
22) ickle~blue 4950
23) modgeblue 4945
24) cptaidan88 4930
25) Balti 4850
26) citiblue375 4800
27) sky tot 4620
28) Tony Adcock 4610
29) bluestevei 4415
30) abu13 4400
31) tasker 4135
32) pauldominic 3595
33) Failsworth_Blue 3430
34) Blob Taylor's Gruds 2215.
The difference between top spot is just 130 points, whilst the gap between 1st and 2nd is 1110 this year and was 1065 last year, so marginally higher this year. The difference between last place between the two years is 150 points, but you start the see the changes in the entry system with the effect it has on the rest of the table. Only 1 team at this stage last time out had less than 3000 points, we currently have 9. 14 teams had over 6000 points whilst only 8 do this year. There's a big 760 point difference between 10th place last year and this year, and a massive 1320 point difference for 16th place.
In total 190,815 points had been scored by this stage last year, at an average of 5612.2 per team. This year 171,195 points have been scored at an average of 4389.6 per team, so it's clear that the new entry system has made it harder to score points. It has also rewarded consistent form, as the likes of Tiger and Kuchar have meant teams with those players in are dominating the competition. We're 22 weeks into the season, this means the rate of points per week was 8673.4 last year compared to 7781.6 this year. The total number of points scored last year was 510,280, which works out over what I think was a 47 week season as 10,857 points per week, so you can clearly see that the points earned per week should go up quite considerably between now and the end of the season.
On a positive note our runaway leader did not win the title last year and was beaten by a team that was 1775 points behind at this stage. Sadly the gap between 1st and 4th is exactly that already, so Phuket Blue does have a strong advantage. Still we can pray for miracles.
Onto this week and it's a quieter week as most stars head off early to the US Open, but Mickelson and DJ both play:
PGA Tour-FedEx St. Jude Classic-Category D.
European Tour-Lyoness Open powered by Greenfinity-Category E.
Enjoy.