What does a ProPlace player card actually show?

A ProPlace player card is the model's entire read on one player for one tournament week, laid out on a single tile. It carries the player's name, country and world ranking, the each-way price where one is available, a form score, a value edge against the market, and a conviction bar scored out of fifteen. Open it and you get the strokes gained makeup and the model's own place probability underneath. Everything else on the site is built out of these cards.

Every element on the card, in the order it renders

The card reads top to bottom, and the order is deliberate. Identity first, market second, model last, because that is the order in which most readers form a view.

• Country flag and player name. Straightforward identity. The flag is there so a field of a hundred and fifty six names is scannable at a glance rather than read line by line.
• World ranking. Shown as a ranking number, or as Unranked where the player sits outside the ranked list. Use it as context for everything below it, since a strong score from an unranked player is a different claim to the same score from a top twenty player.
• Each-way price. The current price the card is working from. Where a live market price is not available the card labels the number as estimated and derives it from the model instead, so you always know which of the two you are looking at. A short provenance note underneath names the source.
• Form score. A weighted read of recent results. It only appears once the value has been populated for the week, so an absent form score means missing data rather than a score of zero.
• Value edge. The gap between the model's place probability and the probability implied by the price beside it. This is the field to read when you want to know whether the model disagrees with the market, and the plain-English definition of model versus market value unpacks what the number is doing.
• Conviction bar, scored out of fifteen. The summary field. The bar colours up as the components agree more strongly, and the conviction score definition sets out exactly what agreement means here.
• Expanded detail. Opening a card reveals the strokes gained makeup, broken into total, approach, putting and off the tee, plus the model's place probability for that player. This is where you find out which component is carrying the score.

Open a player in full and the deep dive adds the model's own rank for that player in the field, the place price, and separate views for the place read, recent form, the strokes gained breakdown and the model detail. If you want the theory behind those components before you read one, the published methodology sets out the weighted factors, and the strokes gained definition covers the measure the makeup is built on.

How to read a card in two minutes

Most weeks you do not need the full deep dive. There is a fast path that gets you a usable view without reading every field.

• Start at the conviction bar. It tells you how much of the card is worth your time.
• Glance at the value edge next to the price. A strong conviction with no edge is a good player at a fair price, which is a different situation to a strong conviction with a wide edge.
• Open the makeup and find the single largest component. If the whole read is resting on putting, treat it more carefully than a read built on approach play, since approach play separates a field more reliably than the short stick does.
• Sanity check the ranking and the field. A high score in a thin field is not the same claim as the same score in a strong one, which is what strength of field adjusts for.

Two minutes per card, done in that order, is enough to form a view on a shortlist you picked out yourself. The guide to reading the rankings walks the same route with the interface in front of you.

What the card does not tell you

Being specific about the limits is more useful than listing the features again.

• It does not tell you what to stake, or whether to stake anything. There is no stake size, no bank plan and no bookmaker steer anywhere on a card.
• It does not predict a winner. A place probability is a probability, and a high one still describes a player who most often does not finish where the model rates their chances.
• It does not know what happened this morning. Withdrawals, injuries and weather that arrives after the analysis is produced are not inside the card, so read it alongside the news rather than instead of it.
• It does not settle the each-way question for you. Place terms vary by event, and how many positions pay changes what a place read is worth.
• It does not replace your own view of the course. Course fit is a component, not a verdict, and disagreeing with it is a normal use of the product.

See one for yourself

One complete card from the current field is published every Monday on the free card page. It renders for anyone who opens the page and no email address is required to read it. That version shows the event and tour, the player, the conviction score out of fifteen, the model's top-finish probability and the factor makeup as a set of bars, which is the same shape of information subscribers see for every player in the field.

If you leave an email address there, that subscribes you to Monday delivery and needs a confirmation click. It is a subscription to the post, not a gate on the card, and the free Monday card explained in full covers how that works. For the wider picture of what a subscription opens up, what you get with ProPlace is the honest inventory, and what ProPlace does not do is the other half of it.

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