All 20 FPO Tournament Projections at DGPT-C 2025
| Order | AF Rank | DGPTC Rank | FPO Player | Rating | 2025 Place |
| 1 | T2 | 2 | Missy Gannon | 990 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Holyn Handley | 984 | 1 |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Silva Saarinen | 983 | 3 |
| 4 | T2 | 3 | Ohn Scoggins | 982 | 7 |
| 5 | T9 | 6 | Paige Pierce | 972 | 2 |
| 6 | 5 | 7 | Kat Mertsch | 972 | 20 |
| 7 | 6 | 11 | Eveliina Salonen | 979 | 5 |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | Valerie Mandujano | 968 | 9 |
| 9 | 7 | 5 | Ella Hansen | 973 | 12 |
| 10 | T9 | 9 | Cadence Burge | 964 | 8 |
| 11 | 19 | 17 | Jessica Gurthie | 956 | 14 |
| 12 | T14 | 16 | Henna Blomroos | 968 | 10 |
| 13 | 16 | 12 | Hanna Huynh | 957 | 16 |
| 14 | 23 | 13 | Catrina Allen | 957 | 11 |
| 15 | 13 | 20 | Sofia Donnecke | 957 | 4 |
| 16 | 22 | 19 | Madison Walker | 946 | 19 |
| 17 | 24 | 15 | Anniken Steen | 966 | 15 |
| 18 | T14 | 14 | Rebecca Cox | 957 | 17 |
| 19 | 26 | 18 | Lisa Fajkus | 945 | 13* |
| 20 | 32 | 23 | Raven Klein | 958 | 18 |
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quick color guide
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Our Event Rankings continued to break new ground in 2025. Event Rankings are for projecting pro players finish in an orderly way for prominent 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: 6:15 am on Wed. Oct. 15th (full list of 20)
Last updated: TBD (this is where we’d typically note any dropped players, though is highly unlikely for this event)
Last checked: Same as first published.
Event results added: 1:30 pm on Mon. Oct. 20th (see Measuring Accuracy section at bottom, below).
Nuances Unique to Event Rankings for Season Finale
Our in-season Event Rankings (ER) have different aims and goals than this ER does for the season finale. The in-season ER on FPO side is routinely dealing with events of 40 playing or more, and we typically stick to the top 25. The finale has just 20 total playing, and much stronger field than a typical event.
All of our in-season ER lists routinely make note of ties since all events on the pro tour have them. This particular list from us has no ties. Even if the official event does have ties, we like the principle that DGPT has previously had in play where seeding of players going in is breaking of any ties at the end of the Championship. And so we are invoking that with this list of projections. If say 3rd seed Silva ties 8th seed Valerie at the end of this event, we’d call Silva the winner of that tie, due to better seeding.
Our tables are always vibrant with colors, and our colors are always serving purpose of conveying layered data and depicting nuance found in each column, while staying true to our color scheme (Quick Color Guide above).
This is around our 40th attempt at an Event Ranking for prominent FPO event, and our 3rd try at the DGPT Championship. It’s never easy making event predictions, while it is always fun and compelling. The finale is easier due to lower field size and the advantages given to higher seeds by the DGPT. This event more than all other in-season ER is very tough figuring out a legit bottom 5, as each of those names are quite capable of finishing top 10 in a typical Elite series event.
Deep Dive on Color Scheming for This Event
Typically, our ER pages contain the following paragraph regarding methodology: 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.
For this event, there’s enough adjustments to the typical Guide, to be of note on this page.
The AF Rank column is of course noting where we rank each player in our standard ranking list, which for FPO is covering about 55 fantasy relevant players in FPO. For the 20 playing in this event, it is covering 4 tiers of players, out of 9 to 11 tiers we have in play. The top tier (yellow) isn’t in play as no FPO player is actually on the top tier, like Buhr is in MPO. Tiers 2 thru 5 are all represented on the DGPT Champion ER, which is to be expected among top 20 to 30 in the division.
The Player Name column is following our in-season approach to conveying player performance at the event in past 5 years. Color background on the name cell means they’ve played at least twice of 5 times possible in past 5 years, and have an average matching the tiers. Two in 2025 (Missy and Ohn) are coming in on top tier. And none of the players on the list are coming in with an average less than 3rd tier, which with a limited field size makes sense. Still 4th tier finishes are possible, and thus the caliber of these specific set of players is very good. If Player Name has no background color, it means the player has played the event once before in past 5 years, or 2025 is first time they are playing in past 5 years (red text). Again, while orange (4th tier) text is possible for this event, all the players who’ve played the finale previously, have finished 3rd tier (better than 15th place) when they played it.
The remaining columns are explained below.
As For The Rest
The Order column has no color and is intended to be a neutral color. Typically, the Event Rankings have many ties in the projections, but as noted earlier, we essentially see no chance for the results to end in a tie by way we see the event results conveying final place.
The final column for actual 2025 place gets added in our post event update. It is us assessing how well we did, or didn’t do.
Typically in our in-season rankings we will note notables not playing and unranked players in the mix, plus other related notes. This event does have a couple notables that qualified and dropped, so we thought we’d note those.
The DGPT Rank column is the seeds for the event. And color is related to the stroke advantage each is given. Yellow being best means Holyn as #1 seed is getting -8 as starting score. And then it goes down in score from there with each color change, such that light green gets -7, dark green, -6, gold -5, and so on down to mid red and the 4 players there starting at even (0).
Rating column is conveying their PDGA rating which updated just 2 days prior to start of this event, and color here is noting their rating ranking within the event as it compares to how we have the player projected. If it is exact match for rating rank, it is mid orange. 1 spot better is light orange, just as 1 spot worse is dark orange. It means they’re projected to finish relatively close to their rating rank or exactly on it. The top 4 on the list are all projected by AF to finish in order matching rating rank. There were 4 players in this field who at 957 have 13th best rating rank for the event, and one of those is projected to finish 13th to help in deciphering the code that is within the color scheme. Dark orange actually covers 1 or 2 spots worse, meaning player is predicted to be up to 2 spots worse than their rating rank, and for this smaller field event, we’re calling that a half tier. After light orange is gold that conveys 2 spots better than rating rank. The green and red are for 3 to 6 spots off, or just under a tier to 1.5 tiers either better (green) or worse (red) than their rating rank. Yellow is best for 7+ spots better than rating ranking, yet none on FPO side have that, nor the worst (gray) in effect. Jessica Gurthie (green) and Rebecca Cox (red) are who we see rising the highest over their rating rank (Jessica) and lowest under rating rank (Rebecca). As Rebecca is a favorite for AF, we would be very okay being wrong, and her finishing in top 8 if possible. Again, coming up with a bottom 5 for this list wasn’t easy.
| 2 Notables not playing DGPT-C |
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| Kristin Latt (10 seed – dropped) |
| Hailey King (22 – dropped) |
Measuring Accuracy
We make it a point to follow up each Event Rankings with a ‘how did we do’ and to make that information public, or transparent. Our Event Rankings Guide explains how we handle accuracy for a typical event, but DGPT championship is not a typical event, and so we have to adjust our scale, make it tighter, to be more fair. For FPO, we are going with our once a season pinpoint scale in the following way:
- 0-1 spot off (still) equals ‘spot on’ or correct enough prediction (yellow)
- 2-4 spots off is semi close (green)
- 5-8 spots off is somewhat off (orange)
- 9-13 spots off is well off (red)
- 14+ spots off is way off (gray)
As a reminder, we chose to break ties that the official results from the event did not, and so our list is essentially unofficial recording. We did add an asterisk by the place number to note that place minus 1 is what was their official place (as a tie). Oddly, out of the 20 spots, there was just a single tie in FPO (for 12th place). MPO had like 5 ties in 33 spots, and just about all events in 2025 have 5 ties minimum, so for FPO to only have one tie is on the phenomenal side of things.
We had 4 correct picks, 20% accuracy there, and 1 of those was an exact match, picking Silva to take 3rd. Our goal is 20% and for FPO, so we just barely made that goal. We had a walloping 12 on the semi close. That along with correct, or ‘semi close or better’ has a target of 60% for FPO events typically, and for this event, even with a tightened scale, we managed 80% which has to be our highest ever. We then had a combined 20% that were somewhat off or worse.
A great way to end the FPO season for our Event Rankings. We didn’t pick Holyn to win it, but we’ve ranked her #1 most of the season, and we will soon see if she’s our FPO Player of the Year. Stay tuned for that being released in our 2026 Draft Kit. We look forward to another season and doing Event Rankings again for another year. Perhaps it’s time to update our accuracy numbers too, making FPO more challenging.