r/NoLayingUp

Hi all,

I’ve spent the last week or so building a small browser game called Drive For Five and would love some honest feedback.

The game is a fairly straightforward golf captaincy simulation inspired by the Ryder Cup. You draft a team, set pairings, and try to guide your side through a series of historical matches.

A few things to be aware of:
- I’m not a professional developer. The game was built with significant AI assistance while I learned as I went.
- It’s a free browser game rather than a commercial project.
- It’s still very much in prototype mode.

All feedback welcome! Thanks in advance for taking a look.

I've been listening to the main pod for a couple years and loved Strapped during its prime. But inexplicably I've fallen in love with the Trap Draw. It's not comparable to a podcast called Cumtown that I used to listen to religiously and was probably the funniest shit on the internet. But ever since that pod went dark, I've been looking for something to fill that void. Somehow the Trap Draw does that in some way. Part of it is I'm older and you probably don't want to listen to a podcast with cum in the name as you get deep in your 30s. But TC & Randy are legitimately funny. And it is exactly the dumb guy content I crave. At least from what I can tell it doesn't get a ton of views/listens, but I can't recommend it enough if you fall in the camp of dumb guy that I am firmly in.

Hypothetical question about the PGA Tour's proposed 2028 structure
I've been thinking about the economics of the proposed Championship Series / Challenger Series model for 2028.
Let's say there are two players:
Player A
Finishes 90th in the Championship Series (just keeps his card).

Plays 20 events.

Makes a handful of cuts.

Has one top-20 finish.

Earns roughly $1M for the season.

Retains access to the Championship Series the following year. 12

Player B
Finishes 105th in the Championship Series and gets relegated.

Goes to the Challenger Series the next season.

Wins 3 events.

Has several additional top-5s.

Finishes 1st-5th on the Challenger points list.

Earns roughly $4M+ and gets promoted back to the Championship Series. 34

In that scenario:
Would Player B actually be better off?
Obviously Player A never lost access to the top tier, but Player B:
Earned several times more money.

Won tournaments.

Returned to the Championship Series anyway.

It almost feels like there could be a "middle ground" where a player who's too good for the Challenger Series but not quite good enough to contend regularly in the Championship Series might financially benefit from dropping down for a year, dominating, and coming back.
Am I missing something, or is this an unintended consequence of the proposed promotion/relegation system? 13

What is the Fedora Five lore? As a relatively new listener, I hear a lot of references, but I don’t know what it means & where it came from

I’m just getting to this moment in the Sunday show, and I haven’t laughed this hard in years oh my goodness. The big man always delivers

Watching these guys being frustrated at Brooke not opening up to create content for them is such a win for her. More people need to stop feeding the content beast.

Cons: NLU has been nonexistent this week. Hazeltine isn’t a venue that’s going to carry the excitement. Morgan is still front and center.

Pros: I feel like coverage time has been decent. The prize money has tripled since 7 years ago. Mel Reid is a delight.

We’re gonna need an exciting finish tomorrow. Bonus points if Nelly wins. But I feel like this used to be the 2nd best women’s major. The Chevron had more hype than this. And I know that the US Open was last week and the crew has been busy this summer, but pretty embarrassing that other than a 30min end of podcast preview, NLU had nothing this week to be a champion for the women’s game…a women’s major.

From what I've read online it seems more and more folk are tired of it. His performance on the Foreplay pod may have killed his aura for good

The guy knows his golf, and is the most knowledgeable person on the pod comfortably in my opinion. Maybe the country club dbag/contrarion character needs to be dialled back somewhat.

Anyone listen to TC on Foreplay yet? I saw a clip on IG. I do respect it from both sides because they’ve been ripping into Kisner and NBC for awhile.

Tron obviously has his own personal flaws, but man I hope he tears into the ForePlay guys. Could see his new Ryan Whitney friendship taming his opinions.

The difference between how NLU fellas have recently been discussing the rollback (and the recent delay) and how the Shotgun Start has talked about it has made it VERY apparent who is paid by Titleist imo

I’m not saying that NLU guys have completely abdicated their opinions on this.

But for example, NLU has been very vocal in the last few months with the (acushnet) company line of “Cam Young is playing a conforming golf ball, therefore the golf ball idea will actually be BAD.”

It was interesting to hear Andy Johnson on a recent pod reveal that the USGA may not agree with the “fact” that Cam’s ball is actually conforming or that “research” shows the ball rollback idea will actually make the problem worse. Haven’t heard that from NLU, which is ok, it just really shows where that argument is coming from (it’s always acushnet)

Disclaimer: I am a big fan of the pod. I think they’re all great guys and they have great banter with each other. When I first started listening, I couldn’t stand TC, but now I think he’s genuinely hilarious. I love it when Soly asks him for one golfer and he doles out like 7 names in 45 seconds. Tremendous stuff.

With all that said, I do get really frustrated listening to them nitpick these tournaments. It’s almost like they think every tournament is a hand-cut, bespoke suit. They might know what they want, but what they want is completely unrealistic (I understand the exact same thing could be said about this post, but maybe that’s why I like the guys, because I relate to their disposition).

For starters, a big complaint about Aronimink was that the leaderboard wasn’t as exciting as they wanted it to be. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of variance in large data sets. It’s a lot like Blackjack. If you’re a profitable card counter, you don’t react to bad beats. Just because the count is high, doesn’t mean you’re gonna win the hand. The edge is minute, but over many many many hands, you come out on top, as long as you stick to the strategy.

Just like in golf…the USGA and PGA etc need to set up the course in a way that will give them the best chance to have a successful, entertaining tournament. But it doesn’t guarantee anything. You could still have a leaderboard of Sam Stevens and Ryan Fox and Aaron Rai at the top. One tournament does nothing in terms of instructing us what the best formula would or should be…you need to zoom out and absorb as much data as possible. If the larger picture shows us we get 52% bad results and 48% good results, then something needs to change. But that’s not what’s happening. We know that based on how well golf has done over the last decade. Hell, these guys have a podcast built on the backs of these organizations.

So, if you’re the PGA tour or USGA or any other organization, all you can do is set your strategy for the long term and stick to it. This idea that the USGA was going to take drastic measures after Thursday to recalibrate the field is absurd. I understand a lot of that was in jest, but it comes from a real place. The morning vs afternoon tee times is just one of another million variables that is a reality of organizing tournament golf. The check on that disparity is switching the tee times the next day. That’s it. That’s the strategy they have implemented, and they’re not going to uproot the entire thing because it didn’t produce a desirable outcome one time. If you’re a card counter, you definitely aren’t going to listen to the drunk guy on 3rd base telling you to stay on a soft 17 against a 10.

Caught a reel or short from Neil, a clip of Randy talking about trying to create a new style/fashion for himself.

I suggest a collab with Rhett from Good Mythical Morning.

Rhett is a tall thin man like Randy. I think Rhett could hook up Randy with the GMM stylists and make some content with them getting fitted.

But also, Rhett is a known Golfer. But a range rat only, he doesn't play and seems reticent to play but beats balls.

I see this as a BIG opportunity not only to put a swerve in Randy's look but get Rhett out on the Links, let the fans see the swing. Randy might love to share with Rhett all his tall man techniques for Golf.

Finally and most importantly, both Rhett and Big Randy are very philosophical and it might be interesting to see a meeting of the minds about Golf, youtubing/podcasting and any topics that emerge from giants roaming the course for a round.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled that the USGA is going back to Oakland Hills in the year 2300, but is there a reason that the entire Midwest has basically been told to fuck off for the better part of the past decade in majors?

The last Midwest major was Bellerive, and I get it, that golf course isn’t the best, but the fan turnout everytime they go to the Midwest is electric. I haven’t heard that loud of crowds before or since during Tiger’s final round at Bellerive.

We’re starved for a men’s major tournament, we have some gems, what’s the deal?

I just realized that I don't think any of the guys referred to Wyndham as the blow pig this week.. did this nickname die? If I did I can't remember why so please refresh my memory!