MPO Event Rankings for Open at Idlewild 2025

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Top 10 MPO Fantasy Projections for Idlewild 2025

Order	AF Rank	MPO Player	Rating	2025 Place
1	2	Calvin Heimburg	1049	5
2	1	Gannon Buhr	1061	2
2	4	Isaac Robinson	1048	14
4	5	Paul McBeth	1045	1
5	9	Kyle Klein	1043	4
6	18	Andrew Marwede	1032	27
7	9	Sullivan Tipton	1040	18
7	23	Chris Dickerson	1035	5
9	7	Ezra Robinson	1044	45
10	12	Simon Lizotte	1038	8

Next 15 MPO Fantasy Projections for Idle 2025

Order	AF Rank	MPO Player	Rating	2025 Place
11	22	Joey Buckets	1030	14
12	15	Adam Hammes	1036	14
13	20	Mason Ford	1035	35
14	32	Bradley Williams	1032	31
15	3	Anthony Barela	1048	41
15	33	Vaino Makela	1032	51
15	29	Luke Taylor	1031	25
18	14	Evan Smith	1042	25
19	17	Corey Ellis	1039	38
20	15	Aaron Gossage	1038	27
20	27	Matt Orum	1034	73
20	56	Jakub Semerad	1018	21
23	31	Alden Harris	1031	27
24	13	Ezra Aderhold	1034	63
24	35	Cole Redalen	1030	3

Final 20 MPO Fantasy Projections for Idle 2025

Order	AF Rank	MPO Player	Rating	2025 Place
247	41	Matt Bell	1024	31
27	29	Silas Schultz	1022	69
28	40	Ben Callaway	1028	51
29	71	Calvin Lonnquist	1014	35
30	24	Austin Turner	1038	41
30	21	Gavin Babcock	1033	8
32	36	Casey White	1027	21
33	25	Andrew Presnell	1030	62
34	42	Paul Ulibarri	1022	14
35	64	Nathan Queen	1025	21
36	47	Kevin Jones	1020	8
37	73	James Conrad	1018	69
38	85	Jeremy Koling	1016	100
39	70	Connor Rock	1023	75
40	66	Luke Humphries	1018	83
41	60	Chris Clemons	1019	51
42	48	Raven Newsom	1026	5
43	28	Paul Krans	1028	45
44	57	Evan Scott	1018	38
45	38	Zach Nash	1026	18

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quick color guide


EB	Best	For full color guide - click here							Worst	EW

Our hope is these rankings inform fantasy disc golf participants as well as entertain fans of the pro tour.

First published: 3:00 pm on Tue. Aug. 19th (full list of 45)
Last updated: 11:30 pm on Thu. Aug. 21st (reflect Nikko drop)
Last checked: Same as last updated.
Event results added: 9:10 pm on Mon. Aug. 25th. Not a bad week for us, but not a great one either. Middle of road with 40% semi close or better predictions, and around 30% that were well off (red) or worse (gray). We had nearly 16% on correct guesses (yellow) which is relatively high, but short of our target at 20%.

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 the 2025 Open at Idlewild tournament.

Our 2024 season goals aimed for 20% accuracy with correct predictions, and 45% accuracy for guesses that are within a tier of being correct. For early 2025, we are sticking to this. We did hit 20% accuracy in 2025 for the NW DGC event.

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 55 or so MPO in the field that are playing, but not part of our list, there are 3 types of player 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:

6 NOTABLES NOT AT Idle
Ricky Wysocki (dropped)
Niklas Antilla
Lauri Lehtinen
Eagle McMahon (dropped)
James Proctor
Nikko Locastro (dropped)

3 UNRANKED MPO AT Idle	rating
Colin Bryant	1031
Jesse Longenecker	1028
Evan Walker	1020