<turbo-stream action="replace" target="content"><template><turbo-frame id="content"><div><div><h3 class="strong">PGA Method</h3><p>I've had a PGA clone method for years, but it was a little convoluted. While the <b><i>Deals</i></b> methods purpose is to create a Percentage array. PGA starts with a percentage.</p><P>I discovered a few weeks ago that I was over thinking on how it could be used. There are several web sites that explain how a PGA Tournament purse is distributed. <span class="text-blue-500"><a href="https://www.easyofficepools.com/pga-tour-payout-percentages-and-projected-earnings/">One being here</a></span></P><p>In case you don't know it, 60% of a purse is distributed to the top 10 places. The rest (40%) is distributed to the remaining 60 or so players.</p><p>I just copied the percents array from the top 20 players.</p><div>[18.000,10.900,6.900,4.900,4.100,3.625,3.375,3.125,2.925,2.725,
 2.525,2.325,2.125,1.925,1.825,1.725,1.625,1.525,1.425,1.325]</div><p>Using the example of 10 players with an $8 dues.</p><ul><li>Copy the first 5 percentage to pay 5 places: [18.000, 10.900, 6.900,4.900,4.100]</li><li>Sum the percentages: 44.8</li><li>Divide each element of the array by the sum to get a new percentage array:</li><li>[0.402, 0.243, 0.154, 0.109, 0.092]</li><li>Multiply the pot time each element of the percents array and get a payout array.</li><li>[32.16, 19.44, 12.32, 8.72, 7.36]</li><li>Round (dollarize) the array and your done!</li><table class="small-table-stripped"><tr><td>10</td><td>$80</td><td class="text-right">$32.00</td><td class="text-right">$19.00</td><td class="text-right">$12.00</td><td class="text-right">$9.00</td><td class="text-right">$8.00</td></tr></table><li>Compared to low deal:</li><table><tr><td>10</td><td>$80</td><td class="text-right">$27.00</td><td class="text-right">$21.00</td><td class="text-right">$16.00</td><td class="text-right">$11.00</td><td class="text-right">$5.00</td></tr></table></ul></div><h3 class="strong">Pick your poison!</h3></div></turbo-frame></template></turbo-stream>