OVERVIEW
Each year since 1984, the PDGA awards Player of the Year (POY) to the top male and female players. Until 2008, this was done by a vote of PDGA officers, touring players and other PDGA movers and shakers. The process has been automated to use a mix of each player's best stats during the year to determine the winners with no vote involved.
For Player of the Year, these four factors are used:
- Player's Best 7 Event Ratings* - Two Major/NT/ET and five best B-tier or higher
- Worlds Event Rating* thru prelims or semis
- Percentage Finish in their seven best events
- Head-to-Head performance against the other finalists.
* The Event Rating is a new stat calculated for players. It's the simple average of the official round ratings a player earns at an event.
For Rookie of the Year (ROY), the first three factors are used but just five events are included - one major/NT/ET and four others. It's uncommon for even top Rookie candidates to face each other very often during the season, so Head-to-Head performance is not calculated for ROY.
The Women rookies with Average Ratings in red do not yet have the minimum five events needed by the end of the year to qualify as finalists. So they need to play well in qualifying events the rest of the year to keep up with Haley Konrad who is technically in the lead right now. All of the other players in the four tables already have the minimum number of events needed. They can still improve their Average Rating if late season events are better than ones already included.
Previous PDGA POY and ROY Award winners are available here.
For information on the calculations involved, please see the following file:
The complete details for the current top candidates for 2009 Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year are available below:
