Thanks everyone for the feedback. Here's my thoughts on some of the stuff. One thing I will say about this league though is that my favorite part about it is the simplicity. I don't want to tinker too much with something that I feel is already working great and is a ton of fun. So I was considering all of that as I was responding to these.
This is fair. Let's start with the Sony and not the TOC, seems to be a consensus there.
With regards to payouts now, here's what I propose due to feedback (still open to suggestions). I don't agree with paying out the Fedex Champion because the person who owns that golfer is almost guaranteed to be high at the standings already. But if we want to throw $50 towards it, that's fine). My goal in all of the money is to spread out the winnings a bit so more people have a chance win some form of $. I also like increasing the tournament fields/potential winnings, which is why keeping the B tourneys over making the WGC majors is my preference. I removed the WGC major and added $50 to first place, fourth place, and the fedex winner. I also took the $50 originally allocated to the TOC and put it to last place. I feel good with this structure, personally.
- We increase the buy-in to $150/person (additional $1000 to play with)
- We start the season with the Sony Open in Hawaii (Jan 11th), which adds 3 tourneys +$150)
- We make the Players pay as a major (+$50)
Make the 3 WGC events pay as a major (+$150)
- We add the 4 B tournaments as $25 winning payouts (Puerto Rico, Corales, Barracuda, Barbosol) (+$100)
- We do the following payout (+$700)
- 1st place - $450 (was originally $200)
- 2nd place - $200
- 3rd place - $100
- 4th place - $50
- Last place - $50
- Fedex Champ Owner - $50
- That's a total of $1000 increases.