Top 25 MPO Fantasy Projections for MVP 2025
| Order | AF Rank | MPO Player | Rating | 2025 Place |
| 1 | 1 | Gannon Buhr | 1062 | 2 |
| 2 | 3 | Paul McBeth | 1048 | 25 |
| 3 | 2 | Calvin Heimburg | 1050 | 6 |
| 3 | 10 | Niklas Anttila | 1048 | 34 |
| 5 | 15 | Aaron Gossage | 1038 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | Ricky Wysocki | 1049 | 3 |
| 6 | 7 | Ezra Robinson | 1042 | 16 |
| 6 | 18 | Chris Dickerson | 1039 | 16 |
| 9 | 3 | Isaac Robinson | 1047 | 4 |
| 10 | 7 | Sullivan Tipton | 1040 | 28 |
| 11 | 18 | Corey Ellis | 1036 | 34 |
| 11 | 24 | Austin Turner | 1035 | 64 |
| 13 | 10 | Kyle Klein | 1044 | 20 |
| 13 | 9 | Lauri Lehtinen | 1041 | 11 |
| 13 | 33 | Matt Orum | 1032 | 11 |
| 16 | 12 | Simon Lizotte | 1039 | 52 |
| 16 | 13 | Evan Smith | 1039 | 28 |
| 16 | 17 | Andrew Marwede | 1035 | 16 |
| 16 | 26 | Cole Redalen | 1032 | 1 |
| 20 | 6 | Anthony Barela | 1048 | 59 |
| 21 | 16 | Adam Hammes | 1035 | 34 |
| 22 | 52 | James Proctor | 1030 | 45 |
| 23 | 21 | Mason Ford | 1034 | 34 |
| 24 | 28 | Bradley Williams | 1033 | 7 |
| 25 | 30 | Casey White | 1030 | 11 |
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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: 11:11 pm on Mon. Sept. 22nd (full list of 25)
Last updated: TBD (where we usually note players dropping, if any)
Last checked: 9:15 pm on Wed. Sept. 24th, no changes since first published.
Event results added: 10:10 am on Wed. Oct. 8th. For it being near end of the season, our results on MPO predictions for MVP Open were so-so. 16% on corrected guesses (yellow) and just under 45% on semi-close (green) or better, with both these numbers being under our target. 40% of our picks were somewhat off (orange) which means worse than that (red and gray) was around 15% and is actually not that bad. The winner of the event, Cole Redalen was one of our orange type picks, so makes sense that was our highest category of guesses this time around.
Simplicity
The event predictions are truly meant to be viewed as simple list, depicting projected order they’ll finish from 1 through 45 25, along with their AF latest ranking (updated earlier this week), then player name, rating, and actual place they end up at the 2025 MVP Open at Maple Hill tournament.
As of early Sept. 2025, our list went from 45 to 25 being ranked for the event and will likely remain there for rest of 2025.
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 2025, we are sticking to this. We did hit 20% accuracy in 2025 for the NW DGC event. We also hit it with 2025 DGLO event (24%). And for GMC 2025, we did our best to date (28%).
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 25, 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 4 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:
| 3 NOTABLES NOT AT Maple |
|---|
| Carter Ahrens |
| Vaino Makela |
| Cale Leiviska |
| 3 UNRANKED MPO AT Maple | rating |
|---|---|
| Mauri Villmann | 1040 |
| Rasmus Saukkoriipi | 1022 |
| Nestori Tuhkanen | 1020 |