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Christian Cavaliere Ranks As Golfweek Collegiate's Top Golfer
September 14, 2018 | Men's Golf
Junior opened season with a 10-under par victory at Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Coming off his 10-under par win at the Turning Stone Tiger Intercollegiate, Christian Cavaliere entered this weekend's competition ranked first nationally on the Golfweek men's collegiate rankings.
The Golfweek rating system is based on Jeff Sagarin's mathematical formula that uses a player's won-lost-tied record against other players when they play on the same course on the same day, and the stroke differential between those players, then links all players to one another based on common opponents. The ratings give an indication of who is playing well over the past 52 weeks.
The following list is an explanation of each category Sagarin uses to formulate his rankings.
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The Golfweek rating system is based on Jeff Sagarin's mathematical formula that uses a player's won-lost-tied record against other players when they play on the same course on the same day, and the stroke differential between those players, then links all players to one another based on common opponents. The ratings give an indication of who is playing well over the past 52 weeks.
The following list is an explanation of each category Sagarin uses to formulate his rankings.
- POWER RATING: This is not a stroke average. The rating is calculated using a player's record, stroke differential and connection to all the other players in the database. The difference between two ratings predicts the difference between two players in a typical round.
- SCHEDULE STRENGTH: The average strength of each event in which the player has played, calculated using the power ratings of every player in every field.
- SCHEDULE RANK: The player's schedule is ranked by difficulty among the entire database.
- RECORDS: A player's won-lost-tied record, based on head-to-head competition, in each category. The winner in a 156-player field has a record of 155-0-0, the runner-up is 154-1-0, etc.
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