We’ve all experienced it. Wither playing against one or having your partner being played for. A sub…So how do the subs do when thrown into the fire that is TBO Golf? The IT Nerd dives into this.
Who has the most appearances as a sub? No suprise its Picklejuice himself, Steve Pichoske with 25. Jason “Animal Whisperer” Driscoll is scond with 19, with Rob “Beefy Burrito” Manipole third at 17. That’s nice that they frequent Tanner often, but who does the best as a sub? Given the different scoring systems, I have to rate the subs by Win % instead of Pts %
Shockingly, Chris Groat has 5 sub appearances (soon to be 6) and won 4 of them. That puts him at the top of the table with an 80% win percentage. Long forgotten Shawn Keding is second with a 66.7% win % over 12 appearances. Steve Pic and the IT Nerd are tied for third with a 60% win %. Those are the guys that you either want subbing for you or your partner, but dread seeing your name as playing them.
So who should you be licking your chops to play or give The Commish a few choice words for getting this guy as your team sub? There’s 6 guys with at least 3 appearances and a win percentage UNDER 25%. That means 3 times out of 4, they will lose. And here they are….
| Rob Manipole | 4 | 12 | 1 | 23.5% | |
| Jason Driscoll | 4 | 14 | 1 | 21.1% | |
| Tom Vaughn | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.0% | |
| Jamie O’Brien | 2 | 8 | 1 | 18.2% | |
| Doug Sprague | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16.7% | |
| Dave Hook | 1 | 4 | 1 | 16.7% | |
As Steve Pic has subbeed for old Flight 1 and old Flight 2 golfers, how does each FLIGHT perform when it has a sub? In other words, is a sub more likely to win if he is subbing for Flight 3 or Flight 4? Here’s what the numbers look like…
| Wins | Loses | Ties | Win % | |
| F1 | 37 | 26 | 3 | 56.1% |
| F2 | 17 | 24 | 7 | 35.4% |
| F3 | 12 | 20 | 1 | 36.4% |
| F4 | 13 | 40 | 5 | 22.4% |
As you can see, Flight 1 subs win more times than they lose. The other Flights do not have a very good sub record with respect to Wins/Loss, especially Flight 4. While the Win/Losses are not that good, the interesting stat is when you look at the Points Percentage. While Flight 4 loses 77.6% of the time, they soften the blow by getting 40% of the points. It would be like losing 8-12 in the old scoring system. Flights 2 and 3 share a similar points percentage, roughly losing 9-11 in the old scoring system.
That’s the past though…what about the future? There is no ‘softening the blow’ on a loss in the new scoring system. Play through Week 8 has 16 subs going 9-7-0 over the weeks. Flight 1 subs lead the pack (Pichoske) at 5-0-0, with Flight 2 subs holding even at 2-2-0. But Flight 3 subs are coming in at 2-5-0.
Food for thought…..
