I have calculated Frankenstat Rankings for 2007 and 2008 and will send those spreadsheets to Hound Dog to attach to this post. So those who enjoy looking at the stats or just want to look at individual players can have fun.   The table below has the top 20 rankings for 2007, 2008, and 2009. The numbers in parentheses are the number of victories and the other numbers are the average ranking for the 5 stats used.  Five players are in the top 20 all three years: Lorena Ochoa, Paula Creamer, Suzann Pettersen, Cristie Kerr and Angela Stanford. If I include those in the Top 30, Maria Hjorth, Karrie Webb and Seon Hwa Lee will add to the list. Yani Tseng and Na Yeon Choi are in the Top 20 both years they have been members of the LPGA. Jiyai Shin, Anna Nordqvist and Michelle Wie all made the list in their rookie years. Song-Hee Kim, Brittany Lang, and Sun Young Yoo were in the Top 40 in 2007 and in the Top 20 in 2008 and 2009, and were the top three players on The Constructivist's list for those most likely to break thru with a victory in 2010.

If you add Ai Miyazato and In-Kyung Kim to the players listed above, you have a very good start (60 %) to a prediction of the Top 30 players for 2010. The biggest problem is to get them in the right order. My crystal ball is always cloudy so I don't do predictions, but I really enjoy doing the calculations on results. On a cautionary note, illness, injury, pregnancy, or surgery can have a big effect on those who score well on this list (Jeong Jang and Mi Hyun Kim) being prime examples.

2008 Frankenstats rankings

2007 Frankenstats rankings

                 2007                                          2008                                          2009

 1. Lorena Ochoa (8)         1.6     1. Lorena Ochoa (7)           1.8    1. Lorena Ochoa (3)           5.8

 2. Paula Creamer (2)       7.4     2. Suzann Pettersen (0)     5.8    2. Cristie Kerr (1)                6.6

 3. Suzann Pettersen (5)   7.6     3. Paula Creamer (4)       10.0    3. Paula Creamer (0)        8.4

 4. Jee Young Lee (0)      13.0     3. Yani Tseng (1)              10.0    4. Ai Miyazato (1)                 8.8

 5. Mi Hyun Kim (1)           20.0     5. Annika Sorenstam (3) 12.2    4. Jiyai Shin (3)                   8.8

 6. Jeong Jang (0)            21.6     5. Cristie Kerr (1)               12.2    6. Suzann Pettersen (1) 11.6

 7. Angela Stanford (0)    23.8      7. Song-Hee Kim (0)        17.6    7. Angela Stanford (1)     12.8

 8. Morgan Pressel (1)    24.0      8. Na Yeon Choi (0)          21.4    8. Na Yeon Choi (2)         16.6

 9. Angela Park (0)           24.8      9. Karrie Webb (0)             21.6    9. Song-Hee Kim (0)       16.8

10. Karrie Webb (0)         25.8    10. Angela Stanford (2)      23.2   10. In-Kyung Kim (1)         17.4

11. Nicole Castrale (1)   26.4    10. Jeong Jang (0)              23.2   11. Yani Tseng (1)             22.2

12. Christina Kim (0)      26.8     12. Jee Young Lee (0)       27.6   11. Kristy McPherson (0)  22.2

13. Seon Hwa Lee (1)    28.4     13. Hee Won Han (0)         30.8   13. Brittany Lang (0)          22.6

14. Brittany Lincicome (1) 29.0  13. Karen Stupples (0)      30.8   14. Helen Alfredsson (0)  23.2

15. Shi Hyun Ahn (0)        30.0    15. Sun Young Yoo (0)      31.2   15. Sun Young Yoo (0)      23.4

16. Julie Inkster (0)          31.0     16. Brittany Lang (0)          35.2   16. Anna Nordqvist (2)      25.6

17. Cristie Kerr (1)           32.4     17. Sandra Gal (0)             35.8    17. Michelle Wie (1)          27.4

18. Maria Hjorth (1)          35.2     18. Giulia Sergas (0)        36.8    18. Maria Hjorth (0)           27.6

19. Se Ri Pak (1)              35.6     19. Eun-Hee Ji (1)             37.2    19. Natalie Gulbis (0)       30.4

20. Pat Hurst (0)               39.2     20. Christina Kim (0)        40.6     20. Seon Hwa Lee (0)     31.4

My next post on this subject will be what this type of analysis suggest about the strengths and weaknesses of a players game. The intent is to look at some players individually and some general observations that apply to players in general. For example take Lorena Ochoa, in 2007 and 2008, she was the dominate player on the tour with 8 and 7 wins in 2007 and 2008 and nothing worse than a fourth place finish in any of the stats. The lower rating in the %GIR and Tee to Green Strokes, indicates she did not hit her irons as well in 2009 as she did in 2007 and 2008.  For the adjusted Total Putting value to be significantly higher than the Putts per GIR value suggest a player did not get up and down from around the green as well as her competition did. 

Lorena Ochoa           2007           2008       2009

Driving Efficiency         1                   1              1

Percent GIR                1                   1              8

TtG Strokes                1                   2              9

Putts per GIR              2                   4              1

Adj Total Putting          3                   1             10

Average                      1.6               1.8            5.8

Wins                           8                  7               3