Pick 'em Contest Indian Wells

steven · Tennis legend

RE: Pick 'em Contest Indian Wells

steven · Tennis legend

Bethan - shedman doh! alert!

- I just noticed that he messed things up when it looked like he hadn't picked Roddick or Gasquet to reach the SFs and I looked at his sheet and found that he had picked Roddick after all.

He put a 1 in box F130 to advance Duckboy from R2 to R3, but for some reason he then typed "Andy Roddick" into cell G129 too. Because it's not "(3) Andy Roddick", it's not been picked up. To correct it, you need to copy cell G119 into cell G129 and then it will be ok from then on.

The bad news is, correcting the error moves him up to 4th place after the last round

and would place him 1st on 104 after the Ljubo win.

So, the question is, do you correct it, or do you not correct it and leave all his Roddick picks invalid as an 'example' to everyone else? (where's the smiley for 'evil grin' when you need it?

) Or, we could let him have the points on condition that he finally replies to our emails about putting the table on the site before, say, mid-day on Wednesday. What do you think?

-- Edited by steven at 00:55, 2007-03-14

Drew · Mar 13, 2007

How the hell....14th to 1st....is this April 1st

steven · Tennis legend

Rafa won

Rob, you won't believe this, but if Arka had picked randomly in R1, all the seeds in R2 and the higher-ranked seed from then on, he wouldn't just be a bit higher on the table, he'd be 8 points clear in 1st place!

... and that's despite all the upsets!

Sheddie · administrator

steven wrote:

Bethan - shedman doh! alert! - I just noticed that he messed things up when it looked like he hadn't picked Roddick or Gasquet to reach the SFs and I looked at his sheet and found that he had picked Roddick after all.

He put a 1 in box F130 to advance Duckboy from R2 to R3, but for some reason he then typed "Andy Roddick" into cell G129 too. Because it's not "(3) Andy Roddick", it's not been picked up. To correct it, you need to copy cell G119 into cell G129 and then it will be ok from then on.

The bad news is, correcting the error moves him up to 4th place after the last round and would place him 1st on 104 after the Ljubo win.

So, the question is, do you correct it, or do you not correct it and leave all his Roddick picks invalid as an 'example' to everyone else? (where's the smiley for 'evil grin' when you need it? ) Or, we could let him have the points on condition that he finally replies to our emails about putting the table on the site before, say, mid-day on Wednesday. What do you think?

-- Edited by steven at 00:55, 2007-03-14

Sorry about that, I went and messed up big time with Roddick in my table, ended up clicking the wrong button and then having to type it in.

C'mon guys you have to give me the pts...it'd be unfair not to, I mean...I got the predictions right and that's what matters

Bethan...think very carefully about what you do...remember that your mod powers can be removed at the click of a button

(we haven't got an evil grin smiley but this will have to do

)

Guys I promise I'll reply by midday tomorrow

RobC · All-time great

Don't forget the "evileye" smiley

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Now listen here Shedman, I want to make VERY clear that I (like the US) do not give in to terrorists (that's what I'm classing your threat as

). So now I've got a dilema...before i would have solved the problem for you immediately but now if i do it looks like I'm giving in. Hmm what to do?

RobC · All-time great

Hmm - what would Ian Paisley do?

- maybe if you demand photos of his admin revenge rights being put beyond use......

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Right, I've made my decision. I will post the corrected table now. HOWEVER, if I receive no email today then I will rescind the correction. Does that sound fair?

By the way if you don't send the email the beautiful table Steven has created can't be posted as it exceeds the limit now.

-- Edited by imoen at 10:54, 2007-03-14

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

POS.	PLAYER	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL	%

1	ForeverDelayed	22	36	40	16	114	59.4%
1	Alex	18	40	40	16	114	59.4%
3	David Cox	20	40	36	16	112	58.3%
4	Drew	16	34	44	16	110	57.3%
5	RobC	17	36	40	16	109	56.8%
6	steven	22	38	32	16	108	56.3%
6	Guy	18	38	36	16	108	56.3%
8	Seagull	23	40	36	8	107	55.7%
9	Mike D	15	38	28	24	105	54.7%
10	RedCabbage	19	32	36	16	103	53.6%
11	andyjmr	21	32	32	16	101	52.6%
12	John	22	38	32	8	100	52.1%
12	Anniez	20	36	36	8	100	52.1%
14	Josh	20	36	32	8	96	50.0%
15	aria81	19	36	32	8	95	49.5%
16	Mkkreuk	15	34	28	16	93	48.4%
17	Johnnylad	19	38	24	8	89	46.4%
18	Imoen	18	30	32	8	88	45.8%
19	Arka	18	30	16	8	72	37.5%

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

This bit should be tacked onto the top of the table but I can't get it to fit in one post.

ROUND	R1	R2	R3	R4	MAXI.

*To finish*	0	0	0	4
*Per win*	1	2	4	8	192

steven · Tennis legend

In tonight's first match, Alex, Mike, Aria & RedCabbage have gone for the Undertaker, the rest of us for Andy.

Djokovic-Benneteau is on court at the moment as well - FD, RedCabbage, andyjmr, anniez and mkkreuk have all gone for Nole, none of us have gone for Benneteau. I imagine most of the rest of us went for James Blake.

Moya-Ferrer won't have any effect because we all went for Fed there.

Finally, all of us except Alex, Drew and Johnnylad went for Tommy Haas in the remaining match.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

steven wrote:
Djokovic-Benneteau is on court 1at the moment as well - FD, RedCabbage, andyjmr, anniez and mkkreuk have all gone for Nole, none of us have gone for Benneteau. I imagine most of the rest of us went for James Blake.

I went for Nole too. And I'm glad I did.

And I'll be cheering for Haas in my sleep as well!

I'll post the next update in a bit, might wait for the Ferrer/Moya match to finish but may not depends on two things a) how long they take and b) how tired I get waiting.

I'm going to have to split the table again this evening but tomorrow will try and post it to the website instead of on here (can't do that now as I know I'm too tired and I'd probably end up deleting the whole of Britishtennis.net - whether that's possible or not!)

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

First part of table here, second in the next post. FD extends his lead to 10 points, David really benefitted from my correcting his mistake-remind me not to do that next time-and moves into second

ROUND	R1	R2	R3	R4	MAXI.

*To finish*	0	0	0	1
*Per win*	1	2	4	8	216

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

POS.	PLAYER	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL	%

1	ForeverDelayed	22	36	40	32	130	60.2%
2	David Cox	20	40	36	24	120	55.6%
3	Drew	16	34	44	24	118	54.6%
4	RobC	17	36	40	24	117	54.2%
4	andyjmr	21	32	32	32	117	54.2%
6	steven	22	38	32	24	116	53.7%
6	Guy	18	38	36	24	116	53.7%
6	Anniez	20	36	36	24	116	53.7%
9	Seagull	23	40	36	16	115	53.2%
10	Alex	18	40	40	16	114	52.8%
11	RedCabbage	19	32	36	24	111	51.4%
12	Mkkreuk	15	34	28	32	109	50.5%
13	John	22	38	32	16	108	50.0%
14	Mike D	15	38	28	24	105	48.6%
14	Johnnylad	19	38	24	24	105	48.6%
16	Josh	20	36	32	16	104	48.1%
16	Imoen	18	30	32	24	104	48.1%
18	aria81	19	36	32	8	95	44.0%
19	Arka	18	30	16	16	80	37.0%