First of all, I'd like to thank Fox once again for maintaining the 
RotoGolf Master Spreadsheet and the Roster Management Site. His 
work makes managing your team simple and easy. As I've said before, 
I'm not sure this league would be possible without all of the things 
he does. Hell, CyberZahm wouldn't be the same without the CyberZahm 
site which he maintains. Thanks a million, Fox!

As you all know, there are many different ways to win (and lose) 
money in RotoGolf. For that reason, this year more than any other 
finds seven different guys winning money.

Let's get into the final numbers according to final finish rank:

 1) Foreskins (Gabes) win $337.25
 2) PinSeekers (Sobo) win $176.04
 3) Ace Holes (Hans) win $52.38
 4) Smoothies (Jack) win $76.42 plus a $40 bottle of booze from Ikey
 5) Red Foxes (Fox) win $113.00 plus 6 pack of Devil Ale from Mags
 6) Ball Washers (Mags) lose $322.00, but win a nice bottle of wine 
    from Ikey, and a latte from Prep
 7) Pot Bunkers (Ikey) win $73.38
 8) Dimpled Balls (Al) lose $260.27
 9) CLickers (Willo) win $134.00
10) Happy Hookers (Andy) lose $159.00, but win a large beer from Ikey
11) Stiff Shafts (Prep) lose $222.00

My Skins and Sobo's Seekers won the most money by finishing first and 
second, but our payouts would have been much greater if it wasn't for 
poor performances in weekly skins action and the majors side bets. 
Same goes for Hans. He finished third, but Jack's fourth place team 
actually won more because Jack's team did better in weekly skins and 
the majors side bets. Jack also won a $40 bottle of booze from Ikey 
(Jack, please arrange with Ikey shipment to your house). Fox's Red 
Foxes were in the last finish money spot, but he made more than Jack 
or Hans because his team won the low team score of the year bet with 
a team score of 48. Fox also won a six pack of Devil Ale from Mags 
(Fox, arrange to pick this up directly from Mags).

Mags' team finished sixth overall, but he took the biggest pounding 
because his team was in red numbers across the board. His downward 
spiral the last two months of the season took him out of the top five 
money spots. Fox leap frogged him on the final day of the season to 
get fifth place finish money and the six pack of Devil Ale. Mags can 
drown his sorrows in the nice bottle of wine that Ikey owes him though, 
and then he can sober up and write his check over a latte that Preppy 
owes him (Mags, please arrange to get these gifts directly from Ikey 
and Prep). Ikey finished in seventh place but he actually won money 
because his team won 8 weekly skins (helped primarily by the triple 
skin that Choi won in the second to last tournament), and Ogilvy's 
grand slam skin at the U.S. Open. Al finished eighth and lost money. 
It would have been even worse for him had his team not done well in 
the majors side bets.

Willo's Tiger led CLickers finished ninth and actually won $134.00 
thanks to all of the weekly and grand slam skins that Tiger won. 
This brings to light the reason for a rule change that I plan to make 
for the 2008 draft. Beginning with the 2008 draft, the guy who loses 
the most money will get to pick his draft selection spot first. I want 
to eliminate the possibility of somebody intentionally tanking in order 
to get Tiger (while making no side bets and limited moves), and then 
sitting back and watching Tiger gobble up weekly and grand slam skins. 
I'm not saying that anyone has intentionally done this in the past, or 
that someone may intentionally do it in the future, but Tiger presents 
that possibility because he's the best in the game. We changed the scoring 
system back in 2001 because of Tiger, and I feel this rule will also be 
good for league integrity in the future. The goal of any rotosport should 
be to finish as high in the standings as possible every year. I want to 
give everyone one year's notice of this change (and Preppy did not have 
Tiger while finishing last this year). If the rule went into effect this 
year, then Mags would get to pick his draft spot first, but for the 2007 
draft we'll continue to use the inverse order of previous year's finish 
to determine draft slot order. Therefore, Prep will get first choice of 
draft position, then Andy, then Willo, and so on.

The Hookers and the Shafts finished tenth and eleventh and lost money. 
It would have been way worse for Andy had he not won over $129.00 in 
majors side bets. Andy did win something, though. Ikey owes him a large 
beer for losing the Kaye vs. Baddeley bet that the two of them had. 
Preppy's losses would also have been worse had Lefty not won him a slam 
skin at the Masters.

Once again, congrats to all of the winners, and better luck next year 
to all of the losers. We'll start picking draft slot positions for 
the 2007 draft beginning December 1st. As always, the draft will 
begin on December 26th.

Gabes