FPO Event Rankings For KCWO 2025

Top 30 FPO Tournament Projections at KCWO 2025

Order AF Rank FPO Player Rating 2025 Place
1 2 Holyn Handley 991 1
2 4 Ohn Scoggins 986 5
3 3 Ella Hansen 974 3
3 11 Hailey King 974 10
5 10 Jen Allen 957 12
5 8 Missy Gannon 980 4
7 12 Rebecca Cox 964 13
7 6 Kat Mertsch 974 6
7 27 Lisa Fajkus 955 34
10 16 Ali Smith 948 20
11 20 Deann Carey 941 21
11 14 Cadence Burge 958 2
11 13 Jessica Weese 952 9
14 18 Natalie Ryan 963 11
15 34 Heidi Laine 960 14
15 15 Catrina Allen 954 16
15 23 Valerie Mandujano 961 7
18 21 Hanna Huynh 951 7
18 26 Emily Weatherman 951 26
20 24 Sarah Hokom 951 24
21 29 Alexis Mandujano 951 19
22 19 Raven Klein 948 15
22 22 Lykke Lorentzen 951 18
22 25 Chantel Budinsky 941 21
25 37 Jennifer Smiley 914 26
26 28 Madison Walker 943 17
26 31 Eliezra Midtlyng 949 21
28 38 Holly Finley 941 37
29 40 Leah Tsinajinnie 908 36
30 36 Kona Montgomery 937 26

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quick color guide

Event rankings are well underway in 2025. These are for projecting pro players finish in an orderly way for upcoming events of the pro disc golf season. Our hope is these rankings inform fantasy disc golf participants as well as entertain fans of pro disc golf for this particular event.  

First published: 4:40 am Wed. Apr. 16th (full list of 30)
Last updated: TBD (this is usually where we note dropped players)
Last checked: 12:20 am on Fri. Apr. 18th (no change since first published)

A Winning Formula

…is what we someday hope to write about our Event Rankings, and show off just how good AF is at predicting results for pro disc golf tournaments. It continues to show up as challenging, quite humbling, and addictive fun. Predictive analysis is certainly important, though we are learning it takes courage no formula can reasonably obtain. 

With that said, our modest goal is to achieve 20% accuracy in our predictions for the top 30 in FPO, as well as 55% on what we call semi-close or better, or within a tier of being a correct prediction. We count 1 place off in FPO as correct (enough), while exact matches are the ideal. Most weeks we don’t quite hit the goal, but in 2024, we hit the target 7 times, getting 20% accuracy. In our FPO picks for Waco 2025, we got a walloping 30% correct predictions, which is our best ever.

Keeping It Simple

The event predictions are truly meant to be viewed as simple list, depicting projected order they’ll finish from 1 through 30, along with their AF latest ranking, then player name, rating, and actual place they end up at 2025 Kansas City Wide Open tournament.

Colors are adding in layers of added information, that convey how well AF assesses they are doing so far this season, as well as historical performance at the tournament in the past 5 years. Please see our Event Rankings Guide for colorful details.

Ranked Players and the Unranked

Of the 10 or so FPO 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 30, 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, based on them rising up. With that said:

5 Notables not playing KCWO
Kristin Latt
Eveliina Salonen
Silva Saarinen
Henna Blomroos
Paige Pierce
3 UNRANKED FPO AT MCOrating
Emma Arp929
Kelley Foster915
Casey Pennington910