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Post by cool79breeze on Nov 21, 2015 6:48:43 GMT -5
Can someone explain how the rankings work out across all tours please? I find it hard to believe that those on lower tours should be moving up the rankings quicker than those of us on the higher tours. Seems absurd to me if it is the case.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 6:54:40 GMT -5
Finish high up and you move up quicker. There is a field strength modifier, so the top tours get the best "jumps" if you do well, but its hardest to do so there. A 5th-10th place or so finish on PGA is roughly equal to a Web.com win from my experience.
There is a lot more into it than that, as well. A divisor of 40 for anyone with 40 or less tournaments played. But there are those that are getting above 40, that is how Sweeney jumped up to the top from #3 recently. He was roughly 2 events behind, and now that the top 3 all have passed the 40 event barrier, their results are based on results.
But back to your point, it does help to win on lower tours, but as you move up, if you can't keep up a higher level of play, you might find yourself at a plateau or slowly gaining/losing.
Hope that sort of makes sense.
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Post by cool79breeze on Nov 21, 2015 7:20:18 GMT -5
Finish high up and you move up quicker. There is a field strength modifier, so the top tours get the best "jumps" if you do well, but its hardest to do so there. A 5th-10th place or so finish on PGA is roughly equal to a Web.com win from my experience. There is a lot more into it than that, as well. A divisor of 40 for anyone with 40 or less tournaments played. But there are those that are getting above 40, that is how Sweeney jumped up to the top from #3 recently. He was roughly 2 events behind, and now that the top 3 all have passed the 40 event barrier, their results are based on results. But back to your point, it does help to win on lower tours, but as you move up, if you can't keep up a higher level of play, you might find yourself at a plateau or slowly gaining/losing. Hope that sort of makes sense. Thanks Bob. So I could sit in CC-A for example and keep churning out high finishes (play permitting!) and rank up quicker than I am currently doing? Seems crazy. I'm enjoying the PGA but nowhere near good enough to compete - hard enough making the cut!
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Post by champ39 on Nov 21, 2015 9:32:27 GMT -5
Last season on CC-A I finished Tied 15th one week and gained 0.1525 WGR points.A few weeks ago I finished Tied 15th on Web.com and gained 0.1834 WGR points.The difference in points(0.0309),would be enough to move me up from current WGR 463 to WGR 457.(slower gains now I have caught the pack up)
Last week was my first drop in the rankings (down 5 spots),made the cut in the Web.com but finished Tied 61st, and I got passed in the rankings by some CC-B players. I shall be moving up this week though,currently "In the house" Tied for 10th.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 9:33:20 GMT -5
Yeah maybe there should be more WGR reward points for those just makor he cut on the top tours as opposed to winning on the lower tours to give guys more incentive to move up. Or maybe there already is? I don't know.
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Post by AFCTUJacko on Nov 21, 2015 10:23:29 GMT -5
Yeah maybe there should be more WGR reward points for those just makor he cut on the top tours as opposed to winning on the lower tours to give guys more incentive to move up. Or maybe there already is? I don't know. I don't disagree, but surely the incentive is the possibility of earning more points. Sure, those guys around the cut line on the PGA/Euro may stagnate a little bit. But if they have a strong week (Top 5/10) they can make a bigger jump than the CC guys ever could. eg MisterNic this last week
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Post by cool79breeze on Nov 21, 2015 10:36:43 GMT -5
Yeah maybe there should be more WGR reward points for those just makor he cut on the top tours as opposed to winning on the lower tours to give guys more incentive to move up. Or maybe there already is? I don't know. I don't disagree, but surely the incentive is the possibility of earning more points. Sure, those guys around the cut line on the PGA/Euro may stagnate a little bit. But if they have a strong week (Top 5/10) they can make a bigger jump than the CC guys ever could. eg MisterNic this last week Last week I made the cut then finished 70+ something. Take into account the cut on the Euro and that should put me somewhere in the top 140 out of the top tours. My argument is that this should be reflected in my WGR points. I don't know the workings but there shouldn't be any CC players ranking up quicker than me regardless of whether they won, 2nd, 3rd etc. I'm probably missing something fundamental.
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Post by mcbogga on Nov 22, 2015 2:34:09 GMT -5
The WGRs work of the concept that a win is a win, it's a quite top heavy system.
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