If a golfer is not listed, it’s because we don’t have the data for said golfer. Also want to take a quick moment to acknowledge my good friend Coop who - behind the scenes - helped make sure we were able to have a trend table & player pool this week. I feel comfortable knowing he can’t lose money on Sungjae Im this week (#SungjaeArmyStrong).
I’m really annoyed that I practically dismissed Mackenzie Hughes out of hand even though he ranked extremely high in the trend table. He went on to have an excellent tournament at Genesis and was 1% clicked at just $6,300. It just goes to show that the player pool is fallible. Playing prediction games is an extremely tough gig and when applying all of this to DFS, it’s helpful to remember something a smart friend told me last week - “DFS is a peer to peer game, not a prediction game” and I took a lot from that. In our quest to be perfect we forget that no perfect lineups can be made, but rather we can give ourselves a leg up.
Such as Jason Day last week, we need to find our areas to attack where the crowd isn’t that can benefit us.
Anyway, this week's field is … well, not great, Bob. Let’s check out the trend table.
Bronson Burgoon again pops up in our list. If the name isn’t familiar from here, it’s because I wasn’t able to post the trend table for the Farmers. He was number 1 in the trend table for Farmers and finished 50th after playing the weekend. He also carded a 14th at The AMEX earlier this year. Mostly a KFT grinder, he is registering solid distance and very plus accuracy and has made two PGA cuts this year. I’m not sure he makes the player pool, but he’s $6,000 on Draft Kings and you don’t need much from him to pay that off and it opens up your entire salary board. You might even be able to find plus money on him to make the cut at your book of preference.
Harry Hall, Sam Stevens, Austin Eckroat all stand out to me here among a lot of the other usual suspect names.
It also appears my blood feud with Greyson Sigg will continue unabated. I’m trying to decide who I have a bigger feud with - Sigg or Luke List (shoutout to my boy Mut).
Nate Lashley was another name that popped for me just looking at the player field and I’m happy to see him this high in the trend table.
Some more usual suspects up top for this field. SH Kim & Ryo Hisatsune are two immediate names that stick out to me that will require further investigation.
A lot of our zero’s don’t actually mean zero - it just means we don’t have enough data to draw off for the base to recent performance. If you see a player at zero in this image or the image below and you’re interested in them, I wouldn’t necessarily use it as a deterrent.
Hojgaard isn’t bothersome at all. But, it’s interesting to note where he sits, especially if he’s going to be evenly clicked with the likes of Finau.
Bramlett looks like he might be a potential chalk bust. Currently have seen him just shy of double digits at $6,800, I think people will be playing his long-ish driver and his T-10 here last year. He did MC his first year and course history is likely to be extremely over played here, with only two years of a sample size.
Olesen’s position is also worth monitoring.
A whole lot of bleck here. We’ll see who makes it to the pool, but just quick and initial look is that Cam Champ might be a decent fade candidate.
I’ve heard Norrman’s name a lot in the early going as well, so something to keep in mind.
Davis Riley is not projecting for a ton of clicks, maybe in the 4-6% range at $6,500, but looks like we may want to avoid him as well.
We’ll see how it shakes out in the pool, and we’ll have more coming your way, but here’s where we start.