ForeverDelayed wrote:I think I know which ones I got right after looking at what has been posted, and it seems getting some of the later questions right has helped my score
Ye, that's right - you got 4 points from questions 5-9, the other four entrants only got 3 ponts from those questions between them.
I was clearly wrong about 10/25 being enough to win, I've been very impressed by all the attempts.
Something came up and I didn't get time to post the answers last night and I've just realised that USM never entered even though he said he would, so ultimatelateman if you want to enter, please do so before this evening and I'll post the answers then.
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I've given up on UltimateLateMan, despite a pm and some unsubtle hints on here, so here are the answers. M = mkkreuk, I = imoen, F = ForeverDelayed, G = gazzpash and J = johnnylad.
1) Which five Brits played more than 70 matches? (5 points)
94 Goodall, Joshua 79 Mackin, Alan 76 Baker, Jamie 76 Childs, Lee 75 Marray, Jonathan
(next was Bloomers on 70)
Everyone got Josh, all but J got Alan, all but M got Baker and all but F & I got Jonny. Nobody went for Lee!
2) Which of those five played the most matches of any Brit last year, an amazing 94? (1 point)
That was Josh, obviously. F, G and J got it right. I think the other two went for Alan (at least one of them did, anyway), which quite surprised me, since Josh had had a more successful year and had done more of it through Futures (i.e. more matches per ranking point) than the other Brits who ended up in the 200-300 range.
3) Which seven Brits managed a win % of more than 60% and played more than 20 matches? (7 points)
64.6% Mackin, Alan (51-28) 64.3% Brooks, Richard (18-10) 63.8% Goodall, Joshua (60-34) 62.7% Ward, James (42-25) 61.5% Murray, Andy (40-25) 60.8% Henman, Tim (31-20) 60.5% Baker, Jamie (46-30)
(Boggo and Jonny got exactly 60%)
This question was very well-answered, particularly when you think how close the percentages are. Everyone got Josh and Andy, only J missed Alan and Tigger, only M missed Jamie. The player outside the top 500 in this list is James, who was picked by F and J, while only G got Richard, the only player outside the top 1000 in the list.
4) Which 6 Brits played in more than 30 tournaments last year? (6 points)
36 Kennaugh, Andrew (GBR) 35 Goodall, Joshua (GBR) 33 Bloomfield, Richard (GBR) 32 Baker, Jamie (GBR) 32 Eaton, Chris (GBR) 32 Slabinsky, Alexander (GBR)
Everyone picked Josh (if anyone hadn't, that would have been even more surprising than not picking Josh for Q2!) and I, F and G went for Jamie, but otherwise successful picks were thin on the ground. Only F and J got Bloomers, just F picked Chris, even 'GB no. 1' Andrew was only picked by mkkreuk and nobody realised how many weeks Slabba had played. I think he ended the year with more 1-pointers than any other Brit.
5) Which Brit had the highest no. of R1 losses in main tour events last year? (1 point)
10 Rusedski, Greg (in 15 tournaments)
This was the easiest question of the lot, since the answer could only be Andy, Tigger or Greg. Or so I (and M, F and J) though. One of the other two thought Amadeus Fulford-Jones played in at least 10 main tour events last year. (ok, I imagine they missed the 'main tour' in the question.
6) Which Brit played over 50 matches last year without gaining a single ranking point? (1 point)
That was Jamie Feaver, who played 51 matches and won 24 of them but didn't manage to win a Futures main draw match.
F & L got it right. One of the others thought it was Slabba (he's not that bad! ) and the other two plumped for Dee and Lownsborough, clearly not realising that this would have meant that they had played over 50 tournaments in 52 weeks too.
Luke Campbell, Matthew Taylor, Chris Harfield and Burnham Arlidge also played 35+ matches without getting a single ranking point.
7) Perhaps even more frustrating, which Brit won more than 54% of his 37 matches last year but still did not get a ranking point? (1 point)
That was Matthew Taylor, who won 20 of his 37 matches. Nobody got this one right, perhaps not surprisingly! Oscar Podlewski (15-16) and Jamie Feaver (24-27) also went point-lessly close to 50%.
8) 47 players had winning streaks of 12 matches or more last year. Can you think of a Brit who could have been in that list? (1 point)
None of course. I thought I might have made the answer to the question too obvious by the way I phrased it, but clearly not - only FD got it right. Three of the others went for Josh (probably a fair guess if any Brit had managed it), one for Flan, thinking of that February Satellite, I assume.
9) Robert Dee had the worst GB losing streak during 2006 with 18 consecutive losses, but two more players lost 10 matches on the trot at some point last year, can you name them? (2 points)
Amadeus Fulford-Jones and Chris Herbert. I and F got Amadeus, nobody got Chris. Adam L was a popular choice, but he hardly played last year.
10) (Tiebreak question) Which two players (in order) who are not a correct answer to any of these questions will be mentioned wrongly the most times by those taking part in this quiz? (I'm pretty sure I already know which two players it will be, let's see if I'm right! )
Boggo (picked 8 times) and Morgan Phillips (picked 7 times), just as I expected.
The only other player who got picked incorrectly more than 3 times was Andy with 7, but he was one of the correct answers to Q3.
Altogether, nearly 30 different players featured as wrong answers to one or more questions - only on a board like this could you find 5 people who could name 30 GB tennis players between them!
Anyway, two players went for Boggo (one of them had even picked him as an answer to an earlier question ), but they weren't the two I needed to separate, hence:
11) (Super-tiebreak question) Which Brits got lucky loser places no less than 4 times last year?
Edward Seator and Alan Wright.
Imoen got Edward, so she snatches 3rd place from J.
Thanks for taking part, all five of you, you all did really well and it was fascinating to see which players had made an impression on people, whether correctly or not!
-- Edited by steven at 00:20, 2007-03-02
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Thanks for taking the time to do the quiz Steven. Really interesting, and as you you say we'd all proably have scored better if we didn't follow so MANY low ranked British players on this site. LOL.