Jeff’s Hardcore Core- THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

Last week for the Wells Fargo Championship, I advocated a stars and scrubs approach and it turned out to be the winningest lineup composition to have. My only regret is that I did not do it with 100% of my rosters. I toyed with the idea of going 100% DJ, with 50% of those rosters being a DJ/Rahm stack, but I did not end up pulling the trigger on that. If I had, I would have been up much bigger than I was. You should be analyzing every weeks GPP data, which we post under the title: GPP data on the homepage, to help you see the entire landscape of GPP results and scoring. DJ ended up having 93.5 draftkings points and Rahm had 91.5. Outside of Pat Perez (99.5) and Zac Blair (81.5), nobody had more than 80 points until you get down to another Core member, Kevin Tway ($7,200) who had 91.5 points. We have talked extensively about this before, but be sure to look at Draftkings points rather than where guys finish in the standings. Draftkings rewards birdies far more than it punishes bogeys, so just because a guy finishes well in the standings, does not mean he necessarily did as well accumulating DK points and vice versa. Others in the Core who did well for us were Graeme Mcdowell, Francesco Molinari, Alex Noren, and JT Poston.   Grayson Murray and Seamus Power were killing it through day 2, but they remembered who they were and fell way back over the weekend. This is precisely why you do not get too high or too low the first two days. Even though they fell back, they still made the cut and each scored 57 points, which wasn’t the worst for the minimum salary.

I always look back each week and think about what I would have done differently, not necessarily just by knowing the outcome, but just by seeing how everything played out. all factors considered. What I would have done last week is fade Kevin Kisner and William Mcgirt. Now, obviously knowing they missed the cut makes this an easy decision, but seeing their ownership (30%) on Thursday made me want to do it even before they teed off. This was a classic letdown spot for Kisner having a late, heartbreaking loss in the play-off at Zurich and looking forward to an event that he has had success at before. THE PLAYERS.   I wish his price would have been where it should be at $9,000-$9.300 and I probably would have avoided him. Dirt Mcgirt just played like shit, but  his ownership was significantly higher than I expected and had I known that, I could have probably stayed away from him as well. Brian Harman hitting the miracle putt was obviously detrimental to the Core and not having the winner. Otherwise it was another very solid week with only three guys missing the cut. I will continue to work my ass off to give you the best advice regarding strategy, ownership, roster composition, and player selection that I possibly can.
This week is one of my favorite events all year and I am lucky enough to be down here in Florida as I write this column to take in TPC Sawgrass and THE PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP. I have a really good feeling about this week based upon the research I have done and the data that I have. It would be ultra sweet if we could hit the Core on the screws while I am down here. Best of luck to all of Team FGI this week!

Jeff’s Strategy & Hardcore Core-

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