By Brett Avery
The Fantasy Insider
PGATOUR.COM Contributor

As far as The Fantasy Insider is concerned, Sean Phillips should become commissioner for one day. Heck, even 10 minutes should do the trick.

TFI has no doubt the Maryland resident would save all of us from a fate worse than root canal: the last-minute withdrawal of a player who leaves a gap in a League Championship Fantasy of Salary Cap Cup lineup.

"I see you have Bo Van Pelt this week only to see he's not playing," Phillips wrote to commiserate with TFI a few weeks back when BVP took a late bow out of the John Deere Classic.

"I too took him. It's [unfortunate] that you can't change it. I think you should be able to have an alternate pick for things like this."

Phillips has a point. In fact, TFI would say he has a darn good point.

So good, in fact, that TFI immediately forwarded that email to the LCF headquarters staff.

TFI's mailbox has seen a steady flow of such suggestions throughout this first season of LCF and the HQ staff is keeping a growing file of such ideas. LCF and Salary Cap Cup are your games, girls and boys, and the contributions of hundreds of team owners will help make LCF even stronger in Season Two.

Why not make Tom, owner of the Metaputz team, commissioner for 10 minutes, too? He also wrote to TFI a few weeks ago, still mulling the double eagle Geoff Ogilvy made during the first round of The Honda Classic.

"I'm biased because I own Ogilvy, but I really think that a double eagle should be worth two eagles in the stat column," he wrote. "I play in a rotisserie league and believe me one extra eagle could turn out to be the difference. An eagle is pretty common as compared to a double eagle, don't you think they should be worth slightly more than an eagle?"

Considering TFI had Ogilvy on his lineup, heck yes!

Which got TFI to thinking: If you could be commissioner for a day -- or even 10 minutes -- what would you look to improve or revise in the fantasy games?

Once the LCF season ends in a month the HQ staff will focus on the 2007 season. That thick file of suggestions will take days to pore through. And TFI can assure you the more ideas to consider, the better.

Daisuke Maruyama has three straight top-20s on TOUR. (Condon/WireImage)

So this week why not take a few minutes and let HQ know what you'd do as commissioner? No idea's too wacky -- well, OK, the one about bonus points for players who wear sequined pants is a bit out there. But you get the idea.

Send your ideas along to TFI at the address at the end of this and every column. He's ship them to HQ and they'll get a spot on the docket. Do it now, before the season ends and you drift off to other fantasy games or lose the thread of inspiration.

Who knows, your idea could become the next brilliant addition to LCF and Salary Cap Cup!

Two players TFI might pick up/trade for to get onto his roster this week:

• Daisuke Maruyama: TFI's not big on taking first-time entrants as favorites but he'll make an exception for this guy. Three straight top-20s, with a solid tie for sixth last weekend in the B.C. Open, highlight the wisdom of making the jump to the U.S. after five seasons on the Japan Golf Tour. He was No. 6 in money in Japan last year and eighth in 2004 so he's got the talent.

• Scott Verplank. Not flashy lately (three finishes between a tie for 21st and tie for 31st) but he's piecing together another of those solid seasons that are impressive in hindsight. Last year in the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee he tied for second after his British Open sojourn (and in 2004 he tied for 11th in his only other Milwaukee visit in recent times). Loves the hot weather, loves the summer.

Rotisserie results for Expert League at British Open-B.C. Open: 72.5 points (first! By 19.5 points!). One-putts 132 (first), birdies 85 (first), bouncebacks 15 (second), 300+ drives 24 (first), fairways 203 (first), greens 280 (first), money $533,207 (fifth), scoring 71.1 (third), scrambles 63 (first), eagles 5 (tied first). Overall: 58.5 points (third). When TFI is old and barely able to sit upright in the rocker, he'll still have memories of this week. Only a few weeks left but he'll try and protect third and push toward second.

Rotisserie lineup for U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee: Billy Andrade, Jason Bohn, Ben Crane, Kenny Perry, Heath Slocum, Jeff Sluman. Not competing: Sergio Garcia, Trevor Immelman, Geoff Ogilvy, Camilo Villegas. Roster moves: Dropped Joe Ogilvie, added Billy Andrade; dropped Paul Casey, added Jason Bohn. TFI needs lots of fairways and greens -- and a bunch of birdies wouldn't hurt in trying to top 60 points.

H2H results for Pacific Tour League at British Open-B.C. Open: hookn and a slicing 224, TFI 174. Driving: Paul Casey 35, Nick O'Hern 23. Short game: Jeff Sluman 34, Carl Pettersson 57. Putting: Joey Sindelar 18 (B.C. Open), David Howell 7. What a horrible, horrible week on the green. Not much else to say.

H2H lineup for U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee: Geo's golf (17-10) at TFI (14-12-1). Driving: Richard S. Johnson, Bo Van Pelt. Short game: Daisuke Maruyama, Nick O'Hern. Putting: Jeff Sluman, Paul Casey (not competing). Not competing: Angel Cabrera, Chad Campbell, Paul Casey, David Howell, Carl Pettersson.

Salary Cap Cup results for British Open-B.C. Open: The main lineup of Tiger Woods ($1,638,480, won!; includes $300,000 in bonuses as round leader), Geoff Ogilvy ($83,655, tied 16th), Paul Casey ($16,916, 71st), Ian Poulter ($0, missed cut) and Bernhard Langer ($0, missed cut) earned $1,739,051 and placed 6,979. Through Week 29 it totals $6,890,080 and ranks 112th. In the British Open Majors Matchup the same lineup placed 1,977th. At least Woods made a pile of cash and kept TFI in the running in Segment Three. Still six long weeks in the Segment.

The "Hey, buddy" lineup of Phil Mickelson ($65,762, tied 22nd), David Howell ($0, missed cut), Zach Johnson ($0, missed cut), Paul McGinley ($0, missed cut) and Graeme McDowell ($68,497, tied 61st; includes $50,000 bonus as round leader) earned $134,259 and placed 22,473rd. Through Week 29 it totals $2,098,326 and ranks 22,818th. In the British Open Majors Matchup the same lineup placed 5,263rd. And without that McDowell bonus for the first-round lead it would have been an even longer, more disappointing week. As if that was possible.

Week 29 winner: ozgolf $3,137,763.

Segment Three leader: Golf Geek $8,743,182.

British Open Majors Matchup: hughz $3,137,763.

Salary Cap Cup lineup for U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee: Main lineup, Scott Verplank $293,500, Bo Van Pelt $264,250, Ryuji Imada $189,500, Daisuke Maruyama $150,500, John Cook $98,500. Total: $996,250. "Hey, buddy" backup lineup, Nick O'Hern $300,000, Mark Calcavecchia $244,750, Billy Andrade $218,750, Kevin Sutherland $131,000, Todd Fischer $75,000. Total: $969,500.

Have a question or comment for TFI? Send it to him at brettavery@aol.com. Please remember to include your team and league names and whether you're playing a rotisserie or H2H league.