--Ok here are the rules and formats for the games we are all participating in within the BESTballers Yahoo Golf League.
BESTBALL Tournament
1. The BESTBALL Tournament has always been the basis of this league and its foundation. It's a game similar to the bestball format you'd play in a regular golf tournament. Each day's scores are based on how there golfers they've selected to play that day scores. The total that they have for the day is the score that is used(On Sunday, the bonuses are not added onto your score for our tournament). On Thursday, the managers are split up into threesomes and assigned tee times, and the two highest scores in that threesome will move onto Friday's play. On Friday, the remaining managers will be paired into foursomes and will be matched up against another foursome. There are four matches on Friday. The winners of those matches(based on the highest team total) move onto Saturday's play. The winners of the two matches on Saturday(once again, the highest team total wins the match) move onto the Championship Match on Sunday. The winning foursome on Sunday is that week's BESTBALL Champion.
Here is a list to better explain the game:
48 managers in the field for each tournament.
Thursday
16 Threesomes=48 managers
Low 2 scores in each threesome move onto Friday
Friday
8 Foursomes=32 managers
Foursomes are paired up using this format:
TEAM 1=1st-Manager with highest Thursday score,2nd highest, 31st, and 32nd
TEAM 2=3rd, 4th, 29th, 30th
TEAM 3=5th, 6th, 27th, 28th
TEAM 4=7th, 8th, 25th, 26th
TEAM 5=9th, 10th, 23rd, 24th
TEAM 6=11th, 12th, 21st, 22nd
TEAM 7=13th, 14th, 19th, 20th
TEAM 8=15th, 16th, 17th, 18th
Match A-Team 1 vs. Team 8
Match B-Team 2 vs. Team 7
Match C-Team 3 vs. Team 6
Match D-Team 4 vs. Team 5
Saturday
Semi-finals
Winner of Match A shall face Winner of Match C(Morning Match), and Winner of Match B shall face winner of Match D(Afternoon Match).
Sunday
The winner of the Morning Match and the winner of the Afternoon Match will face off in the Championship Match on Sunday.
STATS GUY-----Aaron and Josh Lightle-BESTBALLERS II League(Carries a Big Stick and golfguys)
John Karben and Aaron Lightle-BESTBALLERS SECOND EDITION(Carries a Big Stick and kubsix)
Individual Stats
2. The Indy stats are compiled on the basis of the top 20 point earners for the week. Points are awarded as follows:
1st-20pts. 11th-10 pts.
2nd-19pts. 12th-9 pts.
3rd-18pts. 13th-8 pts.
4th-17pts. 14th-7 pts.
5th-16pts. 15th-6 pts.
6th-15pts. 16th-5 pts.
7th-14pts. 17th-4 pts.
8th-13pts. 18th-3 pts.
9th-12pts. 19th-2 pts.
10th-11 pts. 20th-1 pt.
Pretty to easy to follow, yet difficult to score.
STAT GUY-----Andrew Stewart(Par For The Course)
BESTballers SKINS GAME
3. The BESTballers SKINS GAME is a weekly game for those players who finished in the top4 individually from the previous week. Those golfers are involved in 12 holes(4 days x 3 holes each day) where they can earn skins. Skins are awarded for the highest score for that hole for the day. Each hole is worth one skin and if two tie, all tie. The holes are divided up as so:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
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1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th Hole-A player score
2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th Hole-Combined B players scores
3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th Hole-C player score
STATS GUY-Tiger Shark
D PLAYER GAME
4. The D PLAYER GAME is better explained on the D Player page on this site.
Major Championship Game
The Major Championship game will be played four times yearly in conjunction with the Masters, US Open, British Open, and the PGA Championship. The Criteria for your foursome is as follows:
- One Player who is a PAST CHAMPION of said major(not named Tiger Woods).
- *One Player who is WINLESS in the majors who is an American.*
- One Player who is an AMATUER competing in said major.
- One Player who is WINLESS in the majors who is not an American(any nationality).
* = Rule change in effect. Prior rule said "An American who is winless in his pro career, which would cause the field to be very limited, and offer fewer picks. So now any American who has NEVER won a major, but may have won a regular tournament is qualified.
Your foursome will change for every upcoming major, unless you'd like to keep the same group. Certain circumstances may arise where you'd have to change some golfers though(a non-major winning golfer winning a major, amatuer turning pro, or a past champion of one major, but has never won the current major).
STATS GUY-----Aaron and Josh Lightle(Carries a Big Stick and golfguys)
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