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Clauric wrote: »

I emailed the company running it, and they confirmed the following:

• Additional players will be added each week, depending on the field.
• Additional functionality will be added during the competition where you will be able to see players chosen by other competitors.
• There is no plans to change the naming nomenclature to include the first name and surname of players.

Silly to be asking about the ability to see other players chosen by competitors before deadline.

Are you not able to make your own mind up!?

qwabercd

jimmers wrote: »

The first scoring European Tour event in the game is not until Week 3. Presumably for Week 2 the US Tour players not competing in the Masters will be added and the European players will then be added the following week.

Tbf I'd say its a case of them not having a clue how to price up the players so they're just waiting for the odds to come out and price the players accordingly. The fantasy rugby seemed to be run a bit better this year compared to the eejits who ran both of them last year.

If there is already a league please ignore but if not I created one there

https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#classic/leagues/100498/join/XME55E6C

Code XME55E6C

Golfballix

Just joined the boards league thanks MicksJaguar. I think the interest has disappeared amongst the boards crowd. Anyway I have one too TKW757XD

Brian Lighthouse

Two Limerick based leagues here for anyone:

JJ Bowles Pub: https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#classic/leagues/100538/join/YFU7RK9W

Limerick Golf League: https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#classic/leagues/100400/join/WSHNJZD6

Rossie11

when does the lockout lift for rd 1 to make the transfers?

jimmers

Rossie11 wrote: »

when does the lockout lift for rd 1 to make the transfers?

from the 'game-guidelines'

The Lockout will be lifted once all tournaments in the Round have completed and weekly scores have been updated
Once the Lockout has been lifted, your team will be assigned two (2) Transfers to make ahead of the upcoming Round

So Sunday night/Monday morning

https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#help/game-guidelines

Rossie11

jimmers wrote: »

from the 'game-guidelines'

The Lockout will be lifted once all tournaments in the Round have completed and weekly scores have been updated
Once the Lockout has been lifted, your team will be assigned two (2) Transfers to make ahead of the upcoming Round

So Sunday night/Monday morning

https://fantasygolf.irishtimes.com/#help/game-guidelines

Thanks for that
So a "round" is a tournament and not an actual round.
I'm in trouble so with some of the lads I have stuck in

Mangan_Liam

Not doing so well already and only two rounds into the first competition. Anyone have any outsiders doing particularly well at the moment?

manster

Any chance that the bonus codes will be added here?

Golfballix

Thankfully Spieth did the job for me. It will be a long year though someone already nearly 1,500 points ahead....

Potential Underachiever

I played it wrong tactically. I was too worried about having players that were playing the Masters and also playing next week. I was shoehorning the likes of Cantlay, Kuchar, Hadwin into my team for that reason and only had Casey and Spieth as big name/price players. In reality I should have had 3 or 4 of the 4m type players and got far more big names in. The double points on offer this week is going to dwarf anything I get next week in comparison, sure I might be able to field 8 players next week but so what if the majority of them won't score any meaningful points. The leaders this week will just take in the 4 best players for next week anyway and I'll probably have them too, so it's going to be tough to claw back any points especially with no double points!

So next year I will have 3 or 4 titans of the game and the rest of the team being crap, far more likely to score heavily that way than having middle of the road, mid-range type players.

Potential Underachiever

It's also becoming apparent this week about the lack of players in the game, it's ridiculous tbh.

ballina1953

they same to have got the scoring right this year
lets hope it continues not like in the past

jimmers

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

It's also becoming apparent this week about the lack of players in the game, it's ridiculous tbh.

The following is on my team page


Confirmed participants for the RBC Heritage (Round 2) will be added to the Player Pool on Tuesday 10th of April.

Better late than ever!

jimmers

So from the rankings tab, overall there are 6,326 players. The lowest score of the week was -100!

Potential Underachiever

jimmers wrote: »

The following is on my team page


Confirmed participants for the RBC Heritage (Round 2) will be added to the Player Pool on Tuesday 10th of April.

Better late than ever!

Well I guess that's something.

How did you fare yourself? 1450pts and 2k odd position for myself!

Golfballix

391st overall. Not bad here but I think the people who did well might just like Reed and Fowler. Does not mean they will stay up there....

jimmers

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Well I guess that's something.

How did you fare yourself? 1450pts and 2k odd position for myself!

1960 points and position 929 - with Spieth (c), Bubba and Casey.

Way better start than last year when I captained DJ and he didn't even get to the first tee!

Potential Underachiever

Solid start lads.

redarmy

ROUND 1 PTS

2040

ballina1953

got 1370
thomas as captain let me down towards the end
will have only 6 runners this week

denis1501

Anybody got a code in today's paper to share?

DM_7

Why is Spanish open not on the schedule list?

nimbinsurfer

This week's code is 'GARCIA'

nimbinsurfer

REPOST

rosshoulihan

Can anyone see scores of other players up in their private league yet?

redarmy

rosshoulihan wrote: »

Can anyone see scores of other players up in their private league yet?

No just own rank

jimmers

rosshoulihan wrote: »

Can anyone see scores of other players up in their private league yet?

There is an arrow beside the twitter logo on the league page - click on it and the players details appear

Golfballix

Davis Love at €4M has to be this week's steal if you are bold enough....

rosshoulihan

Thanks.

Rolltideroll

Davis Love is a bit long in the tooth. I would go with players that are hot at the moment. There were some players that finished high on the leaderboard at the Masters that are playing again this week.

Anyone having trouble doing their transfers? I can see the timeout clock until lockout and entered the code but everything is still locked.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone having trouble doing their transfers? I can see the timeout clock until lockout and entered the code but everything is still locked.

Got it sorted! Not sure what i was at. I placed 115 after the weekend, i have peaked too soon!

Potential Underachiever

Few guys in the top 50 that still have Spieth and Fowler etc as captain and no transfers! :rolleyes:

Potential Underachiever

End it now, projected up to 356, it can only get worse I have Sabbatini and he sure as **** won't be winning!

jimmers

To be fair to the new guys running the game, there are a couple of decent innovations this year - live scoring and live rank information.

ballina1953

how will it be scored as its doubles next week

jimmers

ballina1953 wrote: »

how will it be scored as its doubles next week

Presume you're talking about the Zurich Classic which starts 26th?

Get points for the position where your player's team finishes?

jor1

What's the transfers code this week?

denis1501

This week's password is MICKELSON

ingo1984

Appears there is still alot of players missing. It claims the fields have been updated but they definitely haven't.

elbagarihno

ingo1984 wrote: »

Appears there is still alot of players missing. It claims the fields have been updated but they definitely haven't.

"All confirmed participants for Round 3 tournaments (Valero Texas Open and Trophee Hassan II) will be available for selection in the Player Pool shortly."

Update probably won't be complete until tonight/tomorrow morning..

AnneFrank

Anyone near the top ?
I'm 365 i think

Potential Underachiever

AnneFrank wrote: »

Anyone near the top ?
I'm 365 i think

Why the sad face? That's a very decent start, you're well in the mix with only2/19 rounds played thus far, I'm 1k odd, I'd much prefer being 365th!

AnneFrank

It's still a long way back points wise though, hopefully i pick a good captain this week

DM_7

AnneFrank wrote: »

It's still a long way back points wise though, hopefully i pick a good captain this week

It is really early. The Majors have a huge impact on the scores and only 1 of 4 have taken place.

Two winners this week, one as captain barely passes out Fowlers score for The Masters if he was captain.

robbo1203

Very odd scoring, I had both Jon Rahm and Paul Dunne on my team last week and still only got 250 points for the week, also cant find Callum Shinkwin, Nicolas Colsaerts or George Coetzee on the list of available players this week

Did the european start on it last week? awh bollicks missed a trick there

robbo1203

Checked with them, the Open de Espana was NOT listed for last week, bugger that. How do they expect us to play on both sides of the Atlantic with only 4 transfers available