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MPO Event Rankings for DGLO 2024

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Top 10 MPO Fantasy Projections for DGLO 2024

Order AF Rank MPO Player Rating 2024 Place
1 18 Eagle McMahon 1032 8
2 2 Ricky Wysocki 1051 2
3 3 Calvin Heimburg 1048 7
3 4 Chris Dickerson 1045 16
5 1 Gannon Buhr 1053 1
6 5 Isaac Robinson 1044 2
6 14 Paul McBeth 1043 12
6 16 Simon Lizotte 1038 5
9 45 Corey Ellis 1027 12
10 38 Kevin Jones 1023 31

Next 15 MPO Fantasy Projections for DGLO 2024

Order AF Rank MPO Player Rating 2024 Place
11 47 James Conrad 1023 21
12 10 Joel Freeman 1029 17
12 23 Emerson Keith 1028 40
14 8 Kyle Klein 1041 21
14 9 Niklas Anttila 1043 45
16 6 Ezra Robinson 1043 20
17 7 Anthony Barela 1038 21
18 29 Adam Hammes 1028 10
19 68 Drew Gibson 1023 70
20 34 Ezra Aderhold 1020 27
21 41 Randon Latta 1013 63
21 84 Tuomas Hyytiäinen 1009 45
23 12 Mason Ford 1031 51
23 13 Andrew Marwede 1033 27
23 26 Luke Taylor 1032 6

Final 20 MPO Fantasy Projections for DGLO 2024

Order AF Rank MPO Player Rating 2024 Place
26 30 Bradley Williams 1030 42
27 37 Chris Clemons 1026 60
28 15 Gavin Babcock 1032 69
28 22 Gavin Rathbun 1031 57
28 24 Evan Smith 1032 4
31 31 Ben Callaway 1027 42
32 35 Garrett Gurthie 1027 87
33 39 Albert Tamm 1023 21
33 46 Alden Harris 1022 27
35 86 GT Hancock 1020 89
35 87 Sullivan Tipton 1019 40
37 77 Eric Oakley 1018 74
38 67 Nikko Locastro 1017 45
39 40 James Proctor 1034 10
40 25 Casey White 1029 49
41 50 Vaino Makela 1028 8
42 19 Aaron Gossage 1031 12
43 36 Austin Turner 1026 12
43 52 Raven Newsom 1025 60
45 53 Jeremy Koling 1022 102

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Post event update: The number one player in MPO has nearly solidified his player of the year status for 2024 with his (Buhr) taking 1st at DGLO. This victory means Buhr swept the 4 Elite+ events of the season, as well as became highest earning pro in disc golf history, in a single season. Ricky has been locked in solidly at 2nd in rankings, and took 2nd at this event. And repeating World Champ, Isaac also tied for 2nd place.  

Our event predictions for MPO at 2024 DGLO were below average. This is our first time going with just 45 MPO in Event Rankings, and it apparently didn’t make things easier. Our one silver lining was correctly predicting Ricky to finish 2nd. Here is the quick rundown:

  • 44% of our picks (20 of 45) were semi-close or better to being accurate
    • 4% or 2 of 45 were spot on, with 1 being an exact match. 
  • 36% of our picks were well off, or worse
  • Which means around 20% were in the middle of those two (orange)

These numbers, are worse than the previous event (Worlds). We missed our goal for spot on predictions (yellow) by a lot, but were very close to hitting goal on the semi-close or better picks (yellow and green combined). Next up is GMC, where the field is smaller, but the competition stronger than most events as top 75 or so battle in first round of the playoffs. 

What’s below is what was published before the event started, other than final results of event.

Our event rankings, or predictions for how each player will place among a set of 45 fantasy relevant players, continues with the next Elite event on the pro tour. Our hope is these rankings inform fantasy disc golf participants as well as entertain fans of the pro tour. 

First published: 4:30 am on Wed. Sept 4th (full list of 45 published)
Last updated: 6:30 pm on Wed. Sept. 4th (reflect Cole and Hannum drops)
Last checked: 4:00 am on Thur. Sept. 5th (no changes since last update)

Simplicity

The event predictions are truly meant to be viewed as simple list, depicting projected order they’ll finish from 1 through 45, along with their AF latest ranking (updated earlier this week), then player name, rating, and actual place they end up at 2024 DGLO.

Our 2024 early season goal aims for 20% accuracy with correct predictions, and 45% accuracy for guesses that are within a tier of being correct.

Meets Nuances

Color in the list explains other relevant information that added columns might make rather boring. This includes tier the player current resides, historical performance at the event, and player value relative to their rating and ranking for the event. After the event, in the actual place column, we use color to depict how close or well off our predictions were. For more details on color, please see our Event Rankings Guide.

As for the Rest

Our approach is to track and rank all fantasy relevant players. Of the 60 or so MPO in the field that are playing, but not part of our list, there are 3 types of players in that mix. Some are ones we rank who are outside top 45, and saved as a sort of waiting list in case others on the list drop from the event. The 2nd type are players who we are tracking, but are not quite fantasy relevant. They could be by the next event, and we will continue to monitor them. The 3rd type are lower rated players who may surprise many and do well at the event, though typically over 3 rounds of elite level play, they tend to settle near the bottom of the standings. Our hope is to rank them someday. With that said:

7 NOTABLES NOT AT DGLO
Jakub Semerad
Matt Orum
Joseph Anderson
Cole Redalen
Paul Ulibarri
Matt Bell
Austin Hannum
3 UNRANKED MPO AT DGLOrating
Ryan Monn1015
Austin Bates1013
Scott Stokely1007