FiveThirtyEight: Where Jordan Spieth's 2015 Ranks

On the heels of an assessment by his colleague last week that included all of the 2015 season, Neil Paine of FiveThirtyEight tries to quantify where Jordan Spieth's Win-Win-T4-2 season in the 2015 majors places it amongst the great ones.

Using a metric called z-scores that measure show many standard deviations a player’s score was from the mean the place it fourth behind three Tiger Woods years.

Here's the piece with a searchable list by name of other players in the discussion.

If numbers aren't your thing to put the season into perspective, consider all the scar tissue cases in majors that Karen Crouse of the New York Times compiles in pointing out how hard it is to win a major these days. And then you have Spieth coming along going Win-Win-T4-2. Oops.

Comments

[ol Harv]

He looks as comfortable as anyone I've ever seen(similar to Tiger when he was on his run) when he's near the lead at a major. Like he's supposed to be there and enjoys being there. Sure seems to be a special player.

[Laurel creek]

Shac,,, this kid has something special.. Not a bomber..not a great swing..( bent left elbow) weird grip.... Good iron game..., great scrambler and great putter,.... His competitive spirit..is limitless...

[meefer]

I'll wait until a year or two has passed. Not to dis the youngster, but the ephemeral nature of greatness is hard to maintain.

[Bill]

Spieth is the greatest golfing mind since Jack and may prove to be the greatest we've ever seen. To think he's only 22! He will only get better and better. When you have an IQ like that, you don't slump, you don't go away for entire stretches of the season. Just feel lucky as a golf fan to get to watch this kid for the next twenty years.

[GolfFan]

Look Ma, no steroids or HGH. No excuses. No snubs.

Don't wake me up, enjoyable pro golf might be back.

[@sevethecomm]

So it ranks Justin Leonard's 1997 ahead of Jack's 1975 season??? C'mon....

[Ryan]

Sevethecomm,

Only unadjusted

[Moonface]

If Rory's 2014 season ranks behind Jeff Sluman's ´88 season, then the counting method isn't worth s**t.