Big Three Stats - July 2009
I promised Tatkins and The Constructivist that I would tally up the latest Total Driving and Total Putting numbers after the U.S. Open, so here they are along with the latest GIR - all in one handy-dandy spreadsheet! I'll list the Top
20 for those of you who get headaches from looking at too many numbers:
Total Driving, GIR, Total Putting spreadsheet - 07-15-09
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Total Driving 1. Jiyai Shin 2. Sun Young Yoo 3. Brittany Lang 4. Suzann Pettersen 5. Karin Sjodin 6. Cristie Kerr 7. Angela Stanford 8. Ai Miyazato 9. Yani Tseng 10. Seon Hwa Lee 11. Paula Creamer 12. Helen Alfredsson 13. Shanshan Feng 14. Kristy McPherson 15. In-Kyung Kim 16. Na Yeon Choi 17. Maria Hjorth 18. Song-Hee Kim 19. Jee Young Lee 20. Karrie Webb |
GIR 1. Paula Creamer 2. In-Kyung Kim 3. Wendy Ward 4. Cristie Kerr 5. Jiyai Shin 6. Brittany Lang 7. Angela Stanford 8. Suzann Pettersen 9. Lindsey Wright 10. Yani Tseng 11. Na Yeon Choi 12. Juli Inkster 13. Helen Alfredsson 14. Lorena Ochoa 15. Shiho Oyama 16. Karin Sjodin 17. Ai Miyazato 18. Sun Young Yoo 19. Brittany Lincicome 20. Vicky Hurst |
Total Putting 1. Inbee Park 2. Ashleigh Simon 3. Song-Hee Kim 4. Natalie Gulbis 5. Michelle Wie 6. Brandi Jackson 7. Sarah Kemp 8. Young-A Yang 9. Allison Hanna-Williams 10. Minea Blomqvist 11. Hee-Won Han 12. Shi Hyun Ahn 13. Jiyai Shin 14. Cristie Kerr 15. Sarah Lee 16. Laura Davies 17. Soo-Yun Kang 18. Na On Min 19. Helen Alfredsson 20. Seon Hwa Lee |
Comments on the lists - The players who are in the Top 20 in all three categories are Jiyai Shin, Cristie Kerr and....Helen Alfredsson? I'm more surprised than you are. Suzann Pettersen is 21st in putting while Angela Stanford is 29th, both just missing the Top 20 in all three. Other surprises - Seon Hwa Lee is 10th in TD (she was 20th in her rookie year of '06 but nowhere near the Top 10 since) and Shiho Oyama is 15th in GIR.
What sparked my promise to do the stat update was a Fanpost by Tatkins two weeks ago where he unveiled his Adjusted Putting Average. He also asked me to do a Stat Relevance comparison of all the putting stats - his APA, my Total Putting, and the two LPGA-produced PPGIR and Putting Average. I used the 2008 numbers to calculate how many of my final 2008 Top 30 players ranked in the Top 30 of each stat and how many of my Top 20 ranked in the Top 20 of each stat, reasoning that higher numbers would mean that stat is more useful in determining a good player. Only 29 players could be used for this study because #3 Jiyai Shin was not included in the 2008 LPGA stats (being a non-member). Her omission should not affect the final results.
I had already calculated the number of players for TP, PPGIR and PA in 2008 and once I tallied up the numbers for Adjusted Putting Average, here is the comparison:
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Stat T.30 T.20 PPGIR 22 13 APA 17 15 Total Putting 16 10 Putting Ave 12 2 |
For 2008, APA beats Total Putting and challenges PPGIR as the putting number most relevant to a good player. I have seen the Relevance change from year to year (it IS a rather small data set) but I wouldn't expect any huge swings over time. I was very impressed that APA nailed 15 of the possible 19 players in its Top 20. That's pretty darned relevant in anybody's book!
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