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Payout Percentages in Disc Golf | Grip Locked Clips
Payout Percentages in Disc Golf | Grip Locked Clips The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) has been a topic of discussion among players and enthusiasts alike when it comes to payout structures. In this video, host Grip Locked Clips examines the purse for both the MPO and FPO sides of the sport, highlighting discrepancies and potential issues with the current system. The comparison between the NPOT and FPO purses reveals significant differences in payouts, with some winners taking home nearly twice as much as they would under a standard calculation. The video also touches on the PDGA's lack of rules governing payout structures, leaving room for interpretation and variation among tournaments. With a focus on the key players, places, and techniques involved, this video provides insight into the world of professional disc golf and its financial aspects.
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so i wanted to look at the purse both on the mpo and fpo side because i i don't understand this is something that we've seen and we've talked about and we've talked about and we talked about we're going to keep talking about because i i i this is one of my least favorite parts of professional disc golf npo total purse 22 175 dollars the winner took home 2 500 so if i plug the numbers in to what we use at tournaments to calculate payout the winner would have taken home five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars more than twice as much yeah and last cash would have taken home 145 instead of 290 which which they still got more than your last cash yeah you should just be making your money back like no one in last cash is expecting to walk away in the positive all right like you came in you came in literally thirty seconds like you gotta pay the winners more like why like and it's not just don't get it it's not even like like i said we're going from 290 last last cash to 145. it's not like we're going where last cash is now instead of being 37th place it's we're only paying the top 20. it's the same amount of people we're paying the same amount of people they're making more than their entry fee but now we're rewarding the winner like now maddio instead of walking home with 2500 bucks is walking home with over five thousand dollars yeah it's a big difference like we last year at the battle for bedford had only six thousand added cash to the whole pro field the whole pro field not just npo paul walked away with two thousand dollars of the winner right yeah that's five hundred dollars less than something in the tournament thirty thousand it's a lot easier to do than you would think it's it's just once again the pdga has this like but it's not even the pdj because they they don't actually have any rules on how payout's supposed to be broken down they have a when you plug it into the tournament well then i'll tell you what it really is then it's tds trying to be best friends with everybody no i think it's td's not caring beyond because if you...
