FANTASY RYDER CUP

Summary
- select a team of 12 golfers to score points during the Ryder Cup
- pay £3 for one team; £5 for 3
- super league facility
- deadline 7:45am, Friday, October 1
- link http://fantasygolf.telegraph.co.uk/

Telegraph blurb:

Earn points during the weekend depending on how your chosen golfers perform as you compete for prizes worth £10,000 including golf breaks, equipment, clothing and a fantastic trip to Celtic Manor to follow in the footsteps of the pros on the Ryder Cup course, The Twenty Ten.

Once you’ve picked your team, you can make unlimited changes to your line-up before The Ryder Cup gets underway at 7:45am on Friday 1 October. However, once the tournament starts, no further changes will be allowed.

Scoring points:
Managers selections will score points on the following basis:
+10 points for each player winning in a match
+5 points for each player in a drawn match
0 points for each player losing a match

Bonus Points:
+1 point per hole in a match-winning margin eg: win by 4 holes = +4 points, win by 3 holes = +3 points
-1 point per hole in a match-losing margin eg: lose by 4 holes = -4 points, lose by 3 holes = -3 points
+5 points for a hole in one scored by a player
+ and - points are doubled for star player selections

I like the idea of this. Will you be creating a super league?

Have checked with admin as there's a small super league prize. Shall set up FISO SL this Monday morning.

FISO super league has now been set up. The best performing Super League at the end of the tournament receives £200. If won by FISO SL, prize will be shared equally by five highest scoring teams.

If interested, can you please:

- create golf team(s) and set to public (ie, viewable by league members; game has no transfer facility, by the way)

- add team details to this thread; eg, own trio = Sultans of Swing; Strawberry Fields; Evergreen

In return, I'll check here daily and forward SL name and PIN by PM. Deadline is 7:45am, Friday, October 1.

Cink Or Swim, The Mahan To Beat and Out Of The Woods all added...

Thanks for the pm Sam

Teams are:
Polarbears I Dozen
Polarbears II Dozen
Polarbears III Dozen

I wonder if the public leagues set up by the telegraph will also be responsible for the superleague prize - if they are consistent with the football game then the answer will be yes. In which case FISO will not have much of a chance as USA and Europe are the only two choices. But its £200 so hey ho.

3 teams I would like to enter into the FISO league.

Eenog Koning
Yips (baby got the)
Pradveg at t'Melkweg

Cheers

Shame it's not open to us expats, only open to those living in UK

Man United's 1 Fan, 2 Fan and 3 Fan.

Cheers Colin.

Anyone fancy picking me some teams and I will go 50/50 if they win anything.

@ Ashers,

Think the Ryder Cup game is 20% skill, 80% luck, so it'll probably be more fun to select own dozen.

Perhaps the expert golf fantasists on FISO may be able to offer better advice but one suggestion is to make just one player your mandatory star selection on Sunday singles day. This is on basis that points are doubled so your other five star golfers who, with luck/skill could play and win twice on Fri or Sat, may earn more fantasy points than those on the final day when all 24 turn out just once.

Another guide is the current betting: eg, these are the expected top points scorers:
T Woods (USA) 8/1
R McIlroy (Europe) 10/1
M Kaymer (Europe) 12/1
S Stricker (USA) 12/1
P Mickelson (USA) 12/1
G McDowell (Europe) 14/1
More odds: http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Golf/ ... 110000371|

Good luck.

Teams:
A Shot in the Dark
A Dot in the Shark
A Trot in the Park

I agree with your assessment that it's 80% luck - golf is impossible to predict at the best of times. Ryder Cup even more so!

ps @Ashers - going 50/50 on weekends away could be difficult!

Just the 1 team for me.

Hooked on LSD.

And just the one for me called ...........radfordred.

To date, five of nine applicants have added 15 teams to the golf super league:

Matt Sims, Cink Or Swim - Mr Green
Matt Sims, The Mahan To Beat
Matt Sims, Out Of The Woods
Alan Wilson, Polarbears I Dozen - polarbear147
Alan Wilson, Polarbears II Dozen
Alan Wilson, Polarbears III Dozen
Julian Clements, Eenog Koning - Knulpuk
Julian Clements, Yips Baby got the
Julian Clements, Pradveg at t'Melkweg
Colin Robertson, Man United's 1 Fan - Man United's #1 Fan
Colin Robertson, Man United's 2 Fan
Colin Robertson, Man United's 3 Fan
Sam David, Sultans of Swing - SamD
Sam David, Strawberry Fields
Sam David, Evergreen

Four have been sent PIN:
radfordred
gmoney7
rja211077
derbynige

If interested in playing:
- first select team(s) at http://fantasygolf.telegraph.co.uk/
- post team names on this thread
League PIN will then be forwarded by PM.

For info, Spencer4 is running a free Ryder Cup game for FISO folk. More than 40 have joined up.
Details at: fiso-s-own-ryder-cup-game-2010-t79017.html

I've entered my team now:

Jezster's under par

Looking forward to this one.

my team; 'no idea' has been added - Had a free credit for some reason otherwise not really my thing (although that may change if i do well!)

all chairmen get a free credit,entered my 1 team

AH. Wondered why i had a free credit. Saves me buying a bundle anyway

a quick team assembled for the mini league- 'team bryano', good luck all

Just the 1 team for me Sam

Team name: Tiger Smurf

Once team for me

Crookface 12

3 for me sam...

Redges Ryder Rebels
Monsoon At Manor
11th hole is home.

Good luck everyone.

With just under a week to the start of the Ryder Cup the the Fiso league now holds 26 teams.
The Telegraph's USA Fans League has 39 but the European Fans League has 327 entries.

Anyone else interested in playing is invited to:
- first select team(s) at http://fantasygolf.telegraph.co.uk/
- post team names on this thread
FISO League PIN will then be forwarded by PM.

Please note the Telegraph deadline ruling:

9. Super Leagues:
No further Super League entries will be accepted after 8am on Friday, 1st October, 2010.

Am I mad or is this just a random number generator game?

Happy to be converted but not convinced as it stands

My 3 are in.

Pa's on the Ball
Pa's Big Slice
Pa's Creamed It

I palyed at Celtic Manor in March with the Fiso Golf Society and this is me at the hallowed portal. Monty phoned me up the other day to pick my brains about the course but I told him to get stuffed for not picking me as a Wild Card.

nice photo little pa,

just to let everyone else know that wall is made from house bricks,

SUZYKINS Utd entered.

Just the one for me - In Woods Furyk sake

Cheers