OTIS Golf

Glossary

What is Estimated salary?

What DraftKings is likely to charge for the player this week, before the real salaries post: the field is ordered by the model's expected fantasy points and read off a salary curve — a dearer top when the favourite is dominant, a floor at the bottom — fitted from past DraftKings slates of the same kind of field. Rounded to $100.

An estimate of DraftKings' price, never their number. Marked EST wherever it shows; a pasted salary file replaces it. Graded against the real slate in the DFS record.

How it's calculated

This is a published record for the season or career, restated here without adjustment or recalculation. Entries, finishes, prize money and ranking positions are all determined by official scoring and administration, and OTIS reads the published result. Where a figure was revised after the fact — a disqualification applied late, a ranking recalculated — the revised figure is what appears here, because the alternative is preserving a number the official record no longer stands behind.

How to read it

Read it alongside how many events the player entered.

What it doesn't say

Counting statistics reward opportunity as well as quality. A player who enters more events has more chances to accumulate them, so comparing totals between players with different schedules — or different career lengths — measures availability as much as ability. Rates and per-round figures answer that question better than totals do. They are also era-dependent in ways that are easy to miss: purses, field sizes and the number of events available have all changed across the window covered here, so a total from one decade is not directly comparable with the same total from another. And a season in progress is not a season: these figures keep moving until it closes.

OTIS tracks this stat across 15 PGA Tour seasons — see it for every player, or read how the numbers are sourced in the methodology.

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