2011 Golf Dollar Values: Tiger Still Tops the Bidding

2011 Golf Dollar Values: Tiger Still Tops the Bidding

For those of you who have a golf auction and bid a fixed budget on your golfers, the following is meant to be a guide.

These are the actual dollar values from our recent RotoWire staff golf league. Our rules base winners on total earnings in PGA Tournaments from the Sony Open to the final FedExCup event (we skipped the Hyundai Tournament of Champions due to scheduling conflicts for the draft), excluding those PGA Tour events held the same week as the the World Golf Championship events and the British Open.

Our format also includes bonus points for the four majors. As a result, some European players may have a higher ranking here than your league. If a European golfer plays in just the four majors and world golf tournaments, he'll still have a lot of value in our league. Our league had 15 members, a budget of $100 per team and each team starts five golfers per week with a total roster of 10 golfers.

One note about our rules for Tiger Woods. We changed our rules in 2008 to combat the Tiger Woods factor. Woods was so dominant in fantasy leagues, especially in this format where there are bonuses for majors, that he went for the $91 max bid in previous seasons and it became a competition to see who could get that max bid in first.

The league decided to split Tiger Woods up into parts, with bidding on each month of his play. Each month

For those of you who have a golf auction and bid a fixed budget on your golfers, the following is meant to be a guide.

These are the actual dollar values from our recent RotoWire staff golf league. Our rules base winners on total earnings in PGA Tournaments from the Sony Open to the final FedExCup event (we skipped the Hyundai Tournament of Champions due to scheduling conflicts for the draft), excluding those PGA Tour events held the same week as the the World Golf Championship events and the British Open.

Our format also includes bonus points for the four majors. As a result, some European players may have a higher ranking here than your league. If a European golfer plays in just the four majors and world golf tournaments, he'll still have a lot of value in our league. Our league had 15 members, a budget of $100 per team and each team starts five golfers per week with a total roster of 10 golfers.

One note about our rules for Tiger Woods. We changed our rules in 2008 to combat the Tiger Woods factor. Woods was so dominant in fantasy leagues, especially in this format where there are bonuses for majors, that he went for the $91 max bid in previous seasons and it became a competition to see who could get that max bid in first.

The league decided to split Tiger Woods up into parts, with bidding on each month of his play. Each month of Tiger Woods was like any other player on a team's roster, but it only accumulated points in that month.
It's a unique solution to the problem that was featured in a Wall Street Journal article.

However, with Woods' troubles in 2010 both on and off the course, the league decided he wouldn't go for $91 or more and made him a regular golfer again. Last year the combined total of the Tiger Woods' months was $88. In 2009 it was $160.

While these dollar values may not exactly fit your league's rules, this should be a good benchmark for your draft preparation.

Here are the results:

 

Golfer$ Value
Woods81
Mickelson61
D. Johnson47
Stricker45
Furyk41
Els36
Casey35
Z. Johnson35
Kim34
Donald31
G. Ogilvy30
O'Hair30
Watney30
Mahan29
Kaymer28
McDowell28
Kuchar27
Fowler25
B. Watson24
Goosen24
J. Day24
Rose24
Poulter22
Villegas22
Schwartzel21
A. Scott20
Cink20
McIlroy20
Allenby18
Moore18
Na18
V. Singh18
Choi17
Snedeker17
Haas15
T. Clark15
Westwood15
Overton14
Petersson14
Yang14
Howell III13
Crane12
K. Perry12
Weir12
Barnes11
Hoffman11
Van Pelt11
de Jonge10
Glover10
Harrington10
Holmes10
Toms10
A. Cabrera9
Atwal9
Marino9
Oosthuizen9
Gay8
Karlsson8
Leonard7
Sim7
Stenson7
Trahan7
Byrd6
Jacobson6
Lovemark6
Sabbatini6
Slocum6
Ames5
Garcia5
Laird5
Molder5
Curtis4
Garrigus4
Kelly4
M. Jones4
Palmer4
Perez4
Stankowski4
V. Taylor4
Wi4
Appleby3
Blanks3
Bohn3
Leishman3
M. Wilson3
Matteson3
O'Hern3
Rollins3
Senden3
Simpson3
Weekley3
A. Romero2
B. Davis2
C. Campbell2
C. Collins2
DeLeat2
Dufner2
Durant2
E. Molinari2
Gates2
Goggin2
Immelman2
Levin2
Love III2
Mallinger2
Petrovic2
Quiros2
Vegas2
Verplank2
Austin1
Baddeley1
Baird1
Beckman1
Bettencourt1
Cejka1
Chalmers1
Chappell1
Connell1
Duval1
Elkington1
F. Molinari1
Fisher1
Gillis1
Goydos1
Hearn1
Henry1
Imada1
Ishikawa1
J. Singh1
Jimenez1
Kirk1
Lamely1
Lunde1
Mayfair1
Mediate1
N. Green1
N. Smith1
P. Hanson1
Points1
Prugh1
Putnam1
Riley1
Stadler1
Streelman1
Summerhays1
Sutherland1
Teater1
Thompson1
Walker1
Willis
1

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Peter Schoenke
Peter Schoenke is the president and co-founder of RotoWire.com. He's been elected to the hall of fame for both the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and Fantasy Sports Writers Association and also won the Best Fantasy Baseball Article on the Internet in 2005 from the FSWA. He roots for for the Minnesota Twins, Vikings and T-Wolves.
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