Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Fantasy Golf: The Hero World Challenge Preview

I spent about an hour today listening to a guy sell the benefits of AI and all of the things that it can do to improve the efficiency of our operation. As part of his pitch, he told us that companies like Price Waterhouse, Morgan Stanley and others that exist primarily to leech off of companies that actually do stuff have hired at least one AI consultant for every thirty of their employees. Must be a real morale booster to have some nerd looking over your shoulder while explaining how you can help train the computer in front of you to take your job one day. 

But I don't work at a bean counting company named after two monocled rich guys who wear tuxedoes to work (at least not until we change our name) and my fellow employees need time to adjust when Chick-fil-a takes an item off their menu so the move to embrace AI is not going to be a smooth one. Shit, from a technology standpoint, I'm barely removed from my 87 year old father who used to printout emails, hand them to his secretary and dictate the response for her to type. I mean you've seen the so-called "graphics" on this website.

We know that AI is coming for us but, when people tell you how fast, remember that it's always best to remember that no one ever went broke by taking American resistance and giving the points. 

BLUESKY POST OF THE WEEK

OK here we go with our new friends at Bluesky as we continue to try to distance ourselves from the Nazis and hookers who took over Twitter like it was a Paris nightclub in 1942. 

I actually don't think my man Clue's solution here is extreme at all and should also apply to anyone who uses FaceTime or talks on speaker phone. At a minimum, we should be able to smack the phones out of their hands and/or douse them with the remainder of our lukewarm coffee. 

I know this is a tired Internet subject and I don’t want to be extreme but people who watch videos at full volume in public should be drawn and quartered, tied to the most powerful horses in the kingdom

— Clue Heywood (@clueheywood.bsky.social) December 2, 2024 at 7:31 PM
   
GOLF ANALYSIS

The new year has not begun but there's really no better time than the present to start not picking Scottie Scheffler to my detriment. It's not really my fault. Even in a twenty man field, I could not in good conscience ask you to bet on a guy to win with +190 odds. If you really believe in him, however, I would condone a parlay with an Akshay Bhatia top five which at least gets you to like +1100.  
 

Place

Player

Odds

Winner

Justin Thomas

+1000

Winner

Sahith Theegala

+2200

Top 5

Akshay Bhatia

+360

Top 5

Nick Dunlap

+450


And here is my stone-cold, lead-pipe, six-man overly hyphenated lock. And yes it includes Scheffler. I may be misguided but I'm not stupid.    

DraftKings Top Six Values
Going to be a big year for the FGR
and Akshay. May need to send him 
some sandwiches so he's up for it.

Scottie Scheffler

$11,900

Justin Thomas

$9,600

Sungjae Im

$7,800

Sahith Theegala

$7,300

Akshay Bhatia

$6,700

Nick Dunlap

$6,400


We've got a lot of new faces and we're missing regulars like Viktor Hovland and Rickie Fowler so the chart below is a little scant but, what it lacks in data, it makes up for with its limited usefulness.  

                             THE FOR SOME REASON IT'S GRAY THIS
                           WEEK HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE CHART

I don't know why it's gray and I don't have a secretary to help me fix it. Happy birthday Dubs. Go Terps!

 

DK Price

2023

2022

2021

2019

2018

Scottie Scheffler

$11,900

1st

2nd

2nd

DNP

DNP

Patrick Cantlay

$10,200

DNP

DNP

DNP

17th

T5

Ludvig Aberg

$10,000

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Justin Thomas

$9,600

3rd

5th

T5

T5

T12

Sam Burns

$9,300

16th

12th

T3

DNP

DNP

Russell Henley

$8,800

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Tom Kim

$8,400

DNP

T10

DNP

DNP

DNP

Wyndham Clark

$8,000

19th

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Sungjae Im

$7,800

DNP

T8

DNP

DNP

DNP

Jason Day

$7,500

11th

DNP

DNP

DNP

16th

Sahith Theegala

$7,300

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Robert MacIntyre

$7,100

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Aaron Rai

$6,900

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Cameron Young

$6,800

15th

3rd

DNP

DNP

DNP

Akshay Bhatia

$6,700

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Brian Harman

$6,600

T8

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Keegan Bradley

$6,500

T13

DNP

DNP

DNP

15th

Nick Dunlap

$6,400

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

Sepp Straka

$6,100

2nd

T10

DNP

DNP

DNP

Matthieu Pavon

$6,000

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP

DNP


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