Congrats, Bethan.

imoen wrote:

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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

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Amazing how FD has suddenly opened up such a big lead, yet there's less than a R4 win to  choose between the rest of the top 10. Well done FD!

Tonight's Haas-Gonzo match is a big one for this competition, and especially for Drew, even though FD is now bound to still be top at the end of the night. If Haas wins, FD will still be 10 points ahead and Drew will drop from 3rd to 11th. If Gonzo wins, Drew will cut FD's lead to 4 points.

By the way, Arka has now scored more points than the average panda pawing the players would get from the whole tournament (80 with 8 matches to go cf 79) and FD is now ahead of what someone picking the higher-ranked player in each match would have got (130 cf 122) - I'm quite relieved about that!

Two things about David's reinstated points:

a) You can take those points away again, he still hasn't replied to those emails, even though poor you is now having to post each table in two separate posts.

b) Open question for everyone - how do we handle this kind of thing in future? One day, a mess-up like this will only be discovered at the last moment, and the player who made the mistake is going to move from 2nd to 1st and go ahead of a person who was sure they had won, which wll be a big anti-climax.

Of course, maybe if we make it clearer to people that it's the names that get compared between the entry sheets and the master sheets, so they'd better not mess aroun with them, that would help - it probably wasn't that obvious this time.

N.B. I'm not suggesting we should penalise someone who can't get the sheet to work (e.g. because they don't have Excel), but in any case that will get picked up by us and sorted out right at the start. It's weird errors like the one David made that I'm concerned about.

-- Edited by steven at 02:09, 2007-03-15

This morning's table. Haas won.

POS.	PLAYER	R1	R2	R3	R4	TOTAL	%
1	ForeverDelayed	22	36	40	40	138	61.6%
2	David Cox	20	40	36	32	128	57.1%
3	RobC	17	36	40	32	125	55.8%
3	andyjmr	21	32	32	40	125	55.8%
5	steven	22	38	32	32	124	55.4%
5	Guy	18	38	36	32	124	55.4%
5	Anniez	20	36	36	32	124	55.4%
8	Seagull	23	40	36	24	123	54.9%
9	RedCabbage	19	32	36	32	119	53.1%
10	Drew	16	34	44	24	118	52.7%
11	Mkkreuk	15	34	28	40	117	52.2%
12	John	22	38	32	24	116	51.8%
13	Alex	18	40	40	16	114	50.9%
14	Mike D	15	38	28	32	113	50.4%
15	Josh	20	36	32	24	112	50.0%
15	Imoen	18	30	32	32	112	50.0%
17	Johnnylad	19	38	24	24	105	46.9%
18	aria81	19	36	32	16	103	46.0%
19	Arka	18	30	16	24	88	39.3%

ultimateshedman wrote:

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andyjmr looks like a threat, he's made a massive leap up the table in the last couple of days

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Gadzooks! last time i looked i was 14th. and if i'd gone for Rafa i'd be 2nd

I've got 2 possible QF's, and after that nothing. anyone who has possibilies in the SF's or the final is going to be a strong contender.

 

Excel allows us to convert the results sheet into a webpage, retaining all the formatting and even any pictures in the original sheet. We were always intending to use this to post the final results, so that there is a record of each competition on britishtennis.net, but because Bethan is coming up against limits on the message board and it's going to be even worse if we have a lot more entrants for Miami, we're going to start posting detailed results on the web from tonight, though Bethan will continue to post a more basic table on here.

Because posting on the web allows us to add pictures, I'm intending to add a flag for each one of us to give the results a bit more 'colour'. (it will probably be possible to add a logo to each entrant for Miami too, to show which team they are playing for)

So, please let me know your country (ENG, SCO, IND, USA, etc) so that I put the right flag next to you! (I take no responsibility for offending anyone otherwise!) Feel free to choose either your country of origin or the one you live in - for example, Arka, I don't know whether technically you are British or Indian, but either way, it would be nice if you represented India, just to give us a bit more variety in the flags.

I'm rubbish...