Jonsey, if you want to rail on a bad golf blogger/journalist, try RICH TOSCHES!
Today's Tosches (rhymes with the yiddish Tuchus) article is about how Stewart Cink is #6 in the world, and he can't figure out why! He can't figure it out because the ranking system is such a big load of gobbledygook that nobody could ever understand!
Let's take a look at all this craziness that leaves Rich just throwing up his hands, looking into the camera, tilting his head to the side, shrugging his shoulders and giving that "I just don't get it!" look:
Ha ha! See what he did there? Put a crazy, wacky URL to signify his confusion!Rich Dousches wrote: Here now, and we are not kidding, is part of the story from the World Golf Ranking website (www.franklyevenwedontunderstandthis.com.):
DurrRRRrr!!! They're just pulling names out of a hat! They must be, cuz who could possibly understand that paragraph above?!!!? Even though obviously it's just saying that player's are ranked according to their finishes, weighted for strength of field! Who could follow that!??! All this craziness! I just don't get it!"The official events from the six professional tours together with the Canadian, Nationwide and European Challenge Tours are all taken into account and ‘Ranking Points' are awarded according to the players' finishing positions and are generally related to the strength of the field based on the number and ranking of the Top 200 World Ranked players and the Top 30 of the Home Tour players in the respective tournaments (Event ‘Rating Values')."
In other words, the World Golf Rankings committee sits around with newspaper clippings from golf tournaments and then, in accordance with Rule 7653-BH-2, they pull golfers' names out of a hat.
SEE WHAT HE DID THERE AGAIN? A wacky acronym! Cuz nobody unless they were some kind of SUPER PERSON with SUPER SMART COMPUTERS IN THEIR BRAINS could figure out that frothing galvanized vat of confusion up there, even though obviously all it's saying is that performance for the last two years is taken into account, weighted for how recently the performance took place! INSANE!!?!?! HUH???More from the actual explanation: "The World Ranking Points for each player are accumulated over a two year ‘rolling' period with the points awarded for each event maintained for a 13-week period to place additional emphasis on recent performances. Ranking points will then be reduced in equal decrements for the remaining 91 weeks of the two-year Ranking period."
This mathematical formula is known as the System Analysis Yield Within Heuristic Adjustment Transaction or SAYWHAT?

I JUST DON'T GET IT!
Here are a few other morsels of comic gold sprinkles through the rest of the article:
AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!(Cink) now has a "points average" ranking of 5.41 and has 281 total points in the system, a gain of 197 points since last year. The only other golfer to post that kind of gain has been John Daly, who has gained 197 pounds since last year.
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!!(According to the World Golf Ranking system, Woods will remain No. 1 on the list for approximately 125 years after his death or until our sun burns out.)
HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHHHAH!!! THIS IS ALL SO VERY FUNNY BECAUSE THE RANKING SYSTEM IS SO VERY CONVOLUTED AND CONFUSING TO RICH TOSCHES!!!Using the current world ranking system, I firmly believe that if we dig up Ben Hogan he'll be No. 8.
You suck, Rich. Jonsey, I demand a public apology to Rick Reilly or I am deleting my bookmark for this BBS and leaving... FOREVER!