DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2017 - 8th annual   August 7, 2017 at 3:22pm

DGLA: MICPS - Top Stats & Our Champion is.....

DGLA: Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2017 - 8th annual

16 week season
32 possible Counted Rounds ( Best 2 of the week Sun-Sat)

27 Participating Leagues
4896 Total Rounds Played
576 Total # of Players
85,209 Total Points awarded

OK what did it take to get into the top ten out of 576 Michigan League players

Must have played an average 49.5 Rounds, 3.1 Avg Rounds / week - Lowest number of rounds in the top 10 was 32 josh Minard and most rounds played was 75 Jay B.

That would have ensured you had an average 30.5 Rounds Counted out of the max 32 rounds - Beats the round stats from Winter - Wonder why????

Each round you had to average 20.223 Points per Rounds but I see as low as 8 pts and as high as 122 - I'll explain that Max high points shortly.

You had to average 8.5 Wins for the season
Nail 1.7 Aces on average Man I have a bunch of 0.7 Aces - wish they counted.
Attend 2.9 HLW to get those Double Points - OK that's a Hint on that Max Point Round above....

Now between the top ten players this summer there was a Point Spread of 353 points, with our champion amassing 1151 points.

It also looks like you had to have played at least a few rounds at the 2017 Cass Benton Monday Night Doubles league this season. In the MiCPS you get points for out performing other players during the same round so the bigger the league round the more points up for grabs. Caps out at 60 players to try and level the delta between large and small leagues. As you see from the stats above you don't always have to win the round, especially if there are a lot of competitors in the round. Small leagues leagues get a boost to try and equalize things but there should be some advantage for the ones who can go to the bigger leagues and be on top at the end. So 2017 Cass Benton Monday Night Doubles had a great participation which meant lots of points up for grabs each round and I'm sure the Ace pool was as well. Who runs that league any way? Nicely done Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common, who also helps with DGLA and this Point Series - Nice

OK I'll post a bunch of comparisons of the top ten players in key point related areas at the bottom - more bragging rights and interesting if you like to see what you must do next season to be a part of this Mi Disc Golf League Elite.

So here are the final standings top 20 and a big Congratulations to our DGLA Michigan Cooperative Point Series - Summer 2017 Champion - Geoff Bennett

Geoff & Danny send me your shirt sizes - Thanks to the DGLA Player members of past seasons and their donations we have really nice embroidered MiCPS Champion pullovers for the top two players again this season. I'll be ordering them shortly.

A real close race at the top 4 spots - Great season and Congrats to all these competitors

Top 20 of 576 Players state wide
Leaderboard Position Player Points Total Rounds
1  Geoff Bennett 1,151 40
2  Danny Fifer 1,062 40
3  Jay B 1,046 75
4  Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 1,002 43
5  Brett Piziali 936 48
6  Russell Taint 881 66
7  andy steiner 829 59
8  Josh Minard 827 32
9  John "Johnny Mac" McClenahan 816 36
10  Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 798 56
11 Scottie Reslock 790 42
12 Jeff "Hep-A-Ler" Hepler 771 37
13 peter boucher 751 36
14 Frame o 738 47
15 Chris Flaherty 722 37
16 "Mag1c" Mike V 719 43
17 Michael Christian 717 20
18 Brian Hyzertron Crouch 704 48
19 Mike Rivamonte 681 19
20 Brett Stryker 612 18

We hope you all enjoyed seeing who is doing what and where in Michigan Disc Golf Leagues throughout the seasons on Disc Golf Scene - THANKS Pete!!!!. Hope to see you next season on the Leaderboards and Mi Courses - bring a friend out to leagues and share the fun.

Thanks to all the League Admin who ensure we have great leagues each week to play at so many courses. You are Awesome!!!

Thanks to those who pick up trash and keep our naturally beautiful courses beautiful.

Peace and Enjoy the Rounds

OK here are how our top ten players stack up against each other by key Point related areas.

Top Ten by Most Wins:

Leaderboard Position Player Points Wins
1  Geoff Bennett 1,151 16
10 Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 798 12
3  Jay B 1,035 9
2  Danny Fifer 1,062 8
4  Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 1,002 8
7  andy steiner 829 8
9  John "Johnny Mac" McClenahan 816 7
6  Russell Taint 881 6
8  Josh Minard 827 6
5  Brett Piziali 936 5

By Aces
Leaderboard Position Player Points Aces
3  Jay B 1,035 4
2  Danny Fifer 1,062 3
10  Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 798 3
5  Brett Piziali 936 2
7  andy steiner 829 2
1  Geoff Bennett 1,151 1
6  Russell Taint 881 1
8  Josh Minard 827 1
4  Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 1,002 0
9  John "Johnny Mac" McClenahan 816 0

by Number of HLW attended
Leaderboard Position Player Points HLW / Double PTs.
7  andy steiner 829 5
10  Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 798 5
4  Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 1,002 4
5  Brett Piziali 936 4
6  Russell Taint 881 3
9  John "Johnny Mac" McClenahan 816 3
1  Geoff Bennett 1,151 2
2  Danny Fifer 1,062 2
8  Josh Minard 827 1
3  Jay B 1,035 0

So whats the big deal about the Highlighted League of the Week (HLW)? We besides it ensure we have an opportunity to show everyone around the state what each club/league is doing, special announcements, plugs for special events, some do cook outs, Fireworks, some have extra prizes, some have special pre-round games and CTPs. You just never know what a group of Disc Golfers will come up with to have more fun. Oh and Yeah Double points.
So the end results is its a great time to travel to a league or course you have not been to or go back and see some great friends, make new ones - Party on Garth.

Double points and Big leagues = Max Points - Well if the league has more than 60 players you hit the Max normal points of 61 if there is no tie for first place. So Double that and you get Max points of 122 points for a single round. That is Max Points baby. NICE!!!!! It was achieved once this season in the top ten at least.

2017 Cass Benton Monday Night Doubles
Monday, July 3, 2017
Cass Benton Hills
Doubles round Alternate tees, 18 holes
Partners Payout Points
1ST -12 42 Phil Common$ and Brandon Oleskie$ $90 122

Bottom line - If you can possible make it you want to grab a friend and head to the HLWs, even if you get 12th place in a round w over 60 players you will get more points than 1st place at a 20 player league round.

Now both size league rounds have their advantages but for those who really want to compete the HLW and Big leagues test your metal and can reward you big time.

By avg pts per counted round

Leaderboard Position Player Points Total Rounds Counted Rounds Avg pts/Cnt Rnd
1  Geoff Bennett 1,151 40 28 41.10714286
2  Danny Fifer 1,062 40 29 36.62068966
3  Jay B 1,035 75 32 32.34375
4  Phil "Puttimus Prime" Common 1,002 43 32 31.3125
7  andy steiner 829 59 28 29.60714286
5  Brett Piziali 936 48 32 29.25
9  John "Johnny Mac" McClenahan 816 36 29 28.13793103
6  Russell Taint 881 66 32 27.53125
8  Josh Minard 827 32 32 25.84375
10  Jerry "Chilly" Chilson 798 56 31 25.74193548

Again Congrats to all the players - Peace and Enjoy the Rounds.