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GuruGolf 2008 - Rules

Note: All rules are tentative prior to the start of the regular season. All rules shown in blue reflect changes from the 2007 season rules.

  1. The game is free to enter, and you may enter as many teams as you wish. Up to ten teams may be managed under a single login. If you wish to manage more than ten teams, you will need to register more than one login ID.
  2. Each team receives $4000 to start. (fantasy money only!)
  3. Each team has 4 roster spots to fill. If any slots are vacant at the time of the freeze, that team's tournament score will be zero. However, if the invalidity appears to be due to a technical glitch, the Commissioner (i.e., Guru) will exercise judgment in restoring the roster to a valid state which appears to be consistent with the intent of the manager. If a manager believes that his roster is incorrectly specified, it is that manager's responsibility to alert the Commissioner as soon as possible. The Commissioner may refuse to consider roster adjustments after the first round of a tournament is completed.
  4. Each teams gets 4 trades to start. 2 additional trades are added after each subsequent freeze. Only a sell transaction counts as a trade. A buy transaction does not count as a trade, so you can set your initial roster without using any trades. (Clarification: Prior to the first tournament of the season, trades will be unlimited, so you can set your initial roster without regard to trading. Once the first roster freeze occurs, all teams will have their trade capacity reset to 4. The weekly addition of 2 trades will begin with the second freeze.)
  5. For each team that has the tournament winner, a bonus trade will be awarded at the end of the tournament. This trade will be added to your total available trades, and may be used at any time thereafter. If an invalid roster (i.e., a roster with less than four golfers) includes the winning golfer, no bonus trade will be awarded.
  6. You may purchase extra trades each week, paid for by reducing your roster cash. For any week, each extra trade will cost $100. There is no need to purchase more than 2 trades in any week, since you have only four roster slots and 2 trades are allocated each week for free. If you need more than 4 trades, reset your roster to the last freeze, and retrade.
  7. Each tournament roster will freeze at the scheduled tee time of the first round. If the opening tee time is delayed due to weather, the freeze time will not be adjusted unless the entire first day is postponed, in which case trading will be unlocked until the scheduled opening tee time of the following day. Rosters will remain frozen throughout the tournament. You cannot make daily trades during a tournament.
  8. Tournament scoring is calculated by hole, relative to par. If you have a golfer who is not active for a round, he is ignored for that round's scoring. If a team has no active golfers for a round, the team score for that round will be zero.
  9. Scoring will be calculated on two bases: best ball and worst ball. All teams will be scored both ways, and separate standings will be maintained for each scoring basis. It is not necessary for a team to designate in advance which scoring method it is pursuing.
  10. If a player withdraws during a round, any completed holes will count in the scoring. The only exception is if the withdrawal occurs during the first round and the golfer is eligible to be replaced by a provisional golfer, as defined below.
  11. Each week, you may designate one "provisional golfer" for each team. A provisional golfer can replace an eligible golfer who withdraws from the tournament prior to the completion of any holes. The purpose of the provisional golfer is to protect against a last minute withdrawal. The following rules govern the provisional golfer feature:
  12. If the early rounds of a tournament are played on multiple courses, player scorecards will be matched by course played, rather than by round. Details will be posted as each of those tournaments comes along. Suffice it to say that all rounds will be scored in a fair and consistent manner.
  13. Scoring will be based upon information which is deemed to be reliable. In the event a golfer's score is reported differently by different sources, the score reported by PGATour.com will generally be considered to be correct, unless another score is demonstrably the correct one. RotoGuru.com will make its best efforts to obtain and report accurate team scores on a timely basis. If a game player believes that his score has been incorrectly calculated, he or she should notify RotoGuru.com via email (davehall@rotoguru2.com) as soon as the error is discovered. Seven days following the completion of any tournament, all team scoring for that tournament shall be final - unless RotoGuru.com believes that the best interests of the game are served by restating the score for a previous tournament.
  14. At the conclusion of each tournament, each golfer will be repriced based upon his actual performance in that tournament. RotoGuru.com will be the sole determiner of price changes, and will employ a quantitative formula which is consistently applied each week. In general, golfers who fail to make the cut will suffer price declines, and most golfers who survive the cut will enjoy price increases. The primary factors in determining each golfer's price change will be his total score, his below-par scores, whether he makes the cut, the proportion of the field which makes the cut, the general strength of the field, and the golfer's starting price. The minimum price for all golfers is $500. There is no theoretical maximum price, although a golfer will need to get on a sustained hot streak to attain a price of $2000 or higher.
  15. After players have been repriced, the roster freeze will be released and trading will be open once again for the next tournament.
  16. Full season scoring will allow for one "mulligan tournament". The mulligan tournament score for each team will be excluded from that team's full season score. The mulligan tournament will be determined as follows: The purpose of the mulligan adjustment is to allow for one bad week, which may be a week with inferior performance, or may be a week when a roster was invalid or was not updated. However, the scores for all four Major tournaments (Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship) must be counted for each team, and cannot be excluded by the mulligan rule.
  17. As described in the prize section of these rules, shorter contests will be conducted during the season, for which prizes will be offered. These contests will be based on the scoring for a subset of tournaments, and will not be adjusted for mulligan scoring. All tournaments during a contest period will be included in a team's score for that contest.
  18. The lowest cumulative score at the end of the season wins the overall best ball prize (adjusted for the mulligan tournament). The highest cumulative score at the end of the season wins the overall worst ball prize (adjusted for the mulligan tournament). In the event of a tie, the team with the greatest franchise value (among tied teams) will win the tiebreaker.
  19. Contest ties will be decided in favor of the team with the greatest team value appreciation for the tournament weeks covered by the contest period. (Note: Posted standings may not always accurately reflect the tiebreaker.)
  20. Official contest standings will include all weeks from the A&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am through the BMW Championship. However, the standings program will be set up to provide scoring for alternate periods, including contest periods. The range of alternatives are solely for the convenience of entrants who may have started late, or who choose to play only limited tournaments, or who would simply like to evaluate performance over a more recent period.
  21. The following prizes will be awarded: In the event that the listed prizes are not available, RotoGuru.com may substitute a prize with a similar value.

    Contest prizes will be offered for the following contest periods:
    ContestWeeks
    "March to the Masters" 1-9
    "Spring to the Open" 11-18
    "Open Faced Sandwich" 20-23
    "Final Four" 28-31
    Majors Combined
    (separate prizes will be awarded
    for each Major tournament as well)
    10, 19, 24, 27

  22. The season will begin with the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Tournaments listed below as "preseason" will not count in the final standings. All roster activity and scoring during preseason weeks will be cleared when the regular season begins. The season will continue each week through the BMW Championship, held in early-September. A list of covered tournaments appears below. (If a tournament is rescheduled for any reason, RotoGuru.com may amend this list of included tournaments.)

The following tournaments will be included:
(Background colors correspond to the contest periods listed above)
TournamentDateLocation
Buick Invitational (preseason) Jan. 24 - 27   San Diego, California
FBR Open (preseason) Jan. 31 - Feb. 03   Scottsdale, Arizona
1 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Feb. 07 - 10   Pebble Beach, California
2 Northern Trust Open Feb. 14 - 17   Pacific Palisades, California
3 Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun Feb. 21 - 24   Riviera Maya, Mexico
4 The Honda Classic Feb. 28 - March 02   Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
5 PODS Championship March 06 - 09   Palm Harbor, Florida
6 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard March 13 - 16   Orlando, Florida
7 Puerto Rico Open presented by Banco Popular March 20 - 23   Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
8 Zurich Classic of New Orleans March 27 - 30   Avondale, Louisiana
9 Shell Houston Open April 03 - 06   Humble, Texas
10 Masters Tournament April 10 - 13   Augusta, Georgia
11 Verizon Heritage April 17 - 20   Hilton Head, South Carolina
12 EDS Byron Nelson Championship April 24 - 27   Irving, Texas
13 Wachovia Championship May 01 - 04   Charlotte, North Carolina
14 THE PLAYERS Championship May 08 - 11 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
15 AT&T Classic May 15 - 18   Duluth, Georgia
16 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial May 22 - 25   Ft. Worth, Texas
17 the Memorial Tournament presented by Morgan Stanley May 29 - June 01   Dublin, Ohio
18 Stanford St. Jude Championship June 05 - 08   Memphis, Tennessee
19 U.S. Open Championship June 12 - 15   San Diego, California
20 Travelers Championship June 19 - 22   Cromwell, Connecticut
21 Buick Open June 26 - 29   Grand Blanc, Michigan
22 AT&T National July 03 - 06   Bethesda, Maryland
23 John Deere Classic July 10 - 13   Silvis, Illinois
24 British Open Championship July 17 - 20   Lancashire, United Kingdon
25 RBC Canadian Open July 24 - 27   Oakville,Ontario, Canada
26 Legends Reno-Tahoe Open July 31 - Aug. 03   Reno, Nevada
27 PGA Championship Aug. 07 - 10   Bloomfield Township, Michigan
28 Wyndham Championship Aug. 14 - 17   TBA
29 The Barclays Aug. 21 - 24   Harrison, New York
30 Deutsche Bank Championship Aug. 29 - Sep. 01   Norton, Massachusetts
31 BMW Championship Sep. 04 - 07   St. Louis, Missouri


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