GCA Mock Fantasy Draft - NEED JUDGES

[Jud_T]

i agree with alex...everyone ranks everyone EXCEPT themselves.  there's little point in using the official ratings or guides as the point was not to pick the highest rated courses available but the ones you would most like to play for the rest of your life....

[JC Jones]

I declare brown cow the winner.


The problem with picking a winner is that several people made, as kind of outlined in the initial rules, made decisions based upon sentimental or personal favorites.  So while Belvedere may only be a 6 on the Doak Scale and certainly not rated elsewhere, it is of higher value to me than some obscure course that is a 8 on the Doak Scale but is located in Nepal.

I think the exercise was fun and certainly we can discus the merits of each person's "team," I'm just not sure I see the value in declaring one person the winner, outside, of course, male pride and general chest pounding.

[Ronald Montesano]

Amen, JCJ...it's an exercise, neither less nor more

[Mac Plumart]

I am with JC...why is everyone obessed with who won?  The rules in the beginning laid out the just for fun, personal preference, feel to the exercise.  Frankly, did anyone lose?  Look at these lists!

If you had to play a set of course for your entire life is the guy with Oakmont a loser since he doesn't have Pine Valley while that guy is a loser because he doesn't have Cypress while that guy is a lose because he doesn't have the Old Course?  As a funny aside, someone probably has more than one of those courses I just listed (since I didn't check the results prior to writing this) and will declare himself the winner based on my post.

However, I do think it would be valuable to see who had the highest rated courses per the different critics/raters...if someone wants to take the time to compile it.  It should yield some interesting results.

[Jay Flemma]

I like my idea best - we "call up" three other guys and set up four round fantasy trips.  So Eric, Alex, and Ben, I'll "host" us all at Oakmont.  each of you pick a place.  (e.g. - Jay Oakmont, Eric Muirfield, Ben Shoreacres, Alex Fishers)

Or if you wanna do four rounds at my places - Oakmont, MPCC, Bulls Bay, and Sleepy Hollow.  What four would each of you take our little foursome to play?

Or we can do another thing...try to play everything we own in one year...before the 2010 draft!  Why don't we make this draft a yearly thing - Like we should with that armchair architecture contest we did.  It would be fun to make those regular entries on the calendar.  Again, I'll start.  I'm playing Sleepy Hollow this wkd. (Wish it was last week, I hear the Halloween Tournament is cool).