Semi-Final Wrap-Up

Results from the Semi-Final matchups...

Long John Holmes (-4) vs. Tommy's Guns (+15)
Rick's squad faltered out of the gate and Aaron held on for the win. Furyk and Scott anchored LJH and insured a showdown between #1 and #2 in the finals.

Au Pair Posse (-27) vs. Choi's Chums (+3)
Cink and Tiger in a playoff for the Bridgestone Invitational was too much for Choi's Chums. I also want to personally thank George for dropping Trevor Immelman early in the season. With a stacked squad, David's team has to be the odds on favorite for third place. We'll see in the bronze medal match..

Arjun's Army beat The Leopards (+19 to +68)
The Fight for Fifth turned into a knockout, with Hugh's squad laying down for a less-than-overwhelming Kapur's Kadets. Jeff takes home 5th place honors and Hugh settles for sixth.

On to the Gold Medal Game...
Long John Holmes (1) vs. Au Pair Posse (2)
Aaron and I have been headed for a showdown since midway through the season. I'm not thrilled with my lack of players showing up this week (3), but I'll scrap together some starters and give it a go (I guess I should have thought about that when I came up with this schedule).

Bronze Medal Game
Choi's Chums (3) vs. Tommy's Guns (4)
Winner takes home a cool $50.

Please post your lineups in the comments section of this thread.

PGA/PGL Wild Card Wrap Up

Here's a summary of last week's matches.

Official Matches:
Choi's Chums (David) destroyed Arjun's Army (Jeff) - 20 to 11
This one was essentially over before the weekend, with David's entire team making the cut and Jeff hanging on by a thread with just three players still alive. But Lefty never really got it going and Nathan Green was left to wonder how he went from a "never been" to a "need to be" overnight, but that's been Jeff's MO all season. In a PGL first, everyone on Choi's Chums (starters and reserves) made the cut at the PGA. In fact, his reserves outscored his starters (-27 to -20). I have to admit I'm a little nervous about my upcoming matchup vs. CC's in the semi's...

Tommy's Guns (Rick) beat The Leopards (Hugh) 1 to 24
This was another yawner, with only Daniel Chopra surviving the cut for The Leopards. Tommy's Guns relied on a revival of sorts from David Toms and Chris DiMarco (two big disappointments throughout the season) to vault his team into the semi-finals. Look for TG to be dismantled by the juggernaut that is Long John Holmes.

Unsanctioned Contests:
Au Pair Posse (Jim) trounced Long John Holmes (Aaron) -40 to 3
You Take Drugs Danny? (Jon) lost to Men With Yellow Hats (Geo) 22 to -5
The loss gives Jon the victory in the Battle of the Basement. Congrats to Jon for securing last place with another inept performance from his band of 1995 All Stars. There's always next year.

Moving on to the Semi-Finals...

Long John Holmes (1) vs. Tommy's Guns (4)
and
Au Pair Posse (2) vs. Choi's Chums (3)

I also encourage an informal match to determine 5th/6th place between:

Arjun's Army vs. The Leopards

Please post your lineups for this week in the comments section of this thread. The field for the Bridgestone Invitational can be found here.

Here's the latest spreadsheet (Jeff willing).

Regular Season Wrap Up

We had a wild last week of the season with another TIE, a heartbreaker for Geo (again), a squeaker and a snoozer.

The TIE: Long John Holmes and The Leopards TIED at -70 apiece.
This score total was far and away the lowest of the season.

The Heartbreaker: Choi's Chum took down Men with Yellow Hats -43 to -33.
Despite having more guys playing on the weekend (4 vs 3), Geo still couldn't pull out the win. David locked up the #3 seed and Geo looks forward to Rick's PGA pool.

The Squeaker: Arjun's Army finished off Tommy's Guns -37 to -30.
Jeff's two guys combined for -18 over the weekend, while Rick's three guys could only card a combined -6. Ouch!

The Snoozer: Au Pair Posse dusts You Took Drugs and Arrived DOA Danny! -53 to -13
This one was never in question, with Jon's team only starting John Daly. Time to start working on your draft for next year Jon. Here's a link to get you started.

So with the regular season behind us, the seeds for the playoffs are as follows:
1. Long John Holmes
2. The Au Pair Posse
3. Choi's Chums
4. Tommy's Guns
5. The Leopards
6. Arjun's Army

The playoffs start with the PGA (August 17-20). Here are the Quarterfinal matches:

Game #1: Choi's Chums (3) vs. Arjun's Army (6)
Game #2: Tommy's Guns (4) vs. The Leopards (5)

Please submit your line-ups in the comments section of this post no later than noon on Wednesday August 16th.

Note: Teams eliminated from the playoffs may not add, drop or trade for the remainder of the season. Teams in the playoffs may add/drop per the standard process throughout the playoffs, but trades are no longer allowed.

Playoff Tiebreaker: After much deliberation and hand wringing, here's what I've come up with to break any ties we have in the postseason... If there's a tie in a playoff game, the team with the individual player with the lowest overall score will prevail. If the opponents each have a player with equal low scores we will look to the next lowest score to determine the winner (and so on). If this process is unable to determine a winner, the team with the lower (better) playoff seed will be declared the winner.

Here's the latest spreadsheet (Jeff willing).

Buick Open Match Ups

Here are the line-ups for the opponents that matter this week:

Choi's Chums
Lucas Glover
Mike Weir
Fred Funk

vs.

Men With Yellow Hats
Rod Pampling
Geoff Ogilvy
Bo Van Pelt
Robert Allenby
Brian Wetterich

--------------------------

Long John Holmes
Jim Furyk
Zach Johnson
Stephen Ames
J.B. Holmes
Charley Hoffman

vs.

The Leopards
Brett Quigley
Vijay Singh
Scott Verplank
Daniel Chopra
Paul Azinger

-------------------------

Arjun's Army
Ben Crane
Darren Clarke
J.J. Henry
Matt Goggin
Brian Gay

vs.

Tommy's Guns
Chris DiMarco
Corey Pavin
Frank Lickliter II
David Toms
Olin Browne

Good luck... the Playoffs await five of these six teams. Who's going to be the odd man out?