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steven


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ultimateshedman wrote:
I think it's a really great idea !  we could do that or how about this site and the GRMB  team up under the name of britishtennis.net  to take on the might of andymurray.com  to find out who has the best predictors.
That's like this site and the GRMB teaming up and calling themselves the Andy Murray Message Board ... there's somehting fishy there!  

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We could do this for Miami, say each site has 25 participants (this is just a randomly picked number, could be more or less). I think between the two boards - this and the rusedski one, we'd be able to raise 25 and obviously for andymurray.com they'd have to select their best 25.

Maybe scoring wise, the score for each site could be the accumulated score of each competing member.
Best left to Miami, yes - I'm yet to find out what teething problems my 'system' is going to experience this time, I'm sure there will be some. Because you can have average score per member, there's no real need to try and contrive to have the same number of players in both teams, though similar would be good.

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What do you think, it'd be fun to take them on !   

By 'fun', you mean andymurray.com is full of people who know nothing about tennis and we'd beat them hands down, I assume?



-- Edited by steven at 18:26, 2007-03-09

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Lol, sounds like 'fun' for Miami. How many people from AM.com would predict someone other than Andy winning though?

I've now got an entry from RedCabbage as well so up to 19 plus Montana and Sally,

Anniez I need you to send me your predictions again as it didn't work for some reason (I've emailed you about it).

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Haha well have you got a better idea for a combined name ? As Greg comes under british tennis too, I thought that we could all unite under britishtennis.net to take on am.com

Average score could be easier to do for the daily tables, I'll email Rob (am.com admin) and see what he thinks

Haha, no I think there are some knowledgeable posters on there, but I still fancy our chances of giving them a good duffing and it would be quite cool to do so !

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Bethan, Annie is now out for the evening. I'll ask her to check her emails when she comes back (won't be till late though)

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ultimateshedman wrote:

Bethan, Annie is now out for the evening. I'll ask her to check her emails when she comes back (won't be till late though)

OK, well if she can get her predictions to me asap. I guess if she's out there's no worries about cheating so she's allowed!



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I was getting a bit worried about PH Mathieu - he was a break down to Alberto Martin, the guy Andy nearly triple bagelled at the AO, and I think Martin was *4-3 up. Fortunately he choked it away and got broken twice to lose it 6-4. Phew!

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ultimateshedman wrote:

As Greg comes under british tennis too, I thought that we could all unite under britishtennis.net to take on am.com



 



And Andy comes under which tennis?

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Andy comes under british tennis too so britishtennis.net is perfect name to unite us

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-- Edited by andyjmr at 21:55, 2007-03-09

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Right I'm about to post the first table, after the first 9 matches have been completed. I'll post the next update tomorrow morning, probably about 9am.

Small problem in that I tried to post the table and it told me the post was too long but I'm working on it....!

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I think I'm doing ok so far:

Got Mayer, Mathieu, Goldstein and Korolev winning which was right but got things wrong with Monfils, Grosjean, Pless and Monaco.

Amazed that Benneteau beat Monfils, Monfils missed 2 match points in that one. I shouldn't have picked Grosjean to beat Acasuso Keep forgetting how out of form Grosjean is, nothing like the player he was in 2003-2004, last few years have been steadily downhill for him and it was a routine 6-4, 6-4 win for Acasuso. Serra looked ordinary in Dubai while Pless was impressive against Fed but Serra won 7-6, 6-4 and Mahut surprisingly beat Monaco in a 3rd set breaker.

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 ROUND    R1    MAXI.
To finish    23
Per win     1     9
                
POS. PLAYER    R1    TOTAL    %
                
     1Johnnylad     7     777.8%
     1Seagull     7     777.8%
     3andyjmr     6     666.7%
     3RobC     6     666.7%
     3steven     6     666.7%
     3Josh     6     666.7%
     3Anniez     6     666.7%
     8Imoen     5     555.6%
     8ForeverDelayed     5     555.6%
     8Mike D     5     555.6%
     8aria81     5     555.6%
     8Drew     5     555.6%
     8John     5     555.6%
   14David Cox     4     444.4%
   14Arka     4     444.4%
   14RedCabbage     4     444.4%
   17Alex     3     333.3%
   17Guy     3     333.3%
   17Mkkreuk      3     333.3%


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It took me 90 secs to fill out the sheet...5 from 9...eekk it shows !!!!

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ultimateshedman wrote:
Amazed that Benneteau beat Monfils, Monfils missed 2 match points in that one. I shouldn't have picked Grosjean to beat Acasuso Keep forgetting how out of form Grosjean is, nothing like the player he was in 2003-2004, last few years have been steadily downhill for him and it was a routine 6-4, 6-4 win for Acasuso.

Yeah those two mucked things up for me, I was sure Monfils was gonna take when he served for it so was pretty annoyed to see him lose. grr. Other than those two matches Mayer and Serra weren't supposed to win.

Congrats to Seagull by the way who had a 100% record for the first 6 matches.



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Drew wrote:

It took me 90 secs to fill out the sheet...5 from 9...eekk it shows !!!!
That makes me feel real good Drew !  I spent 30min on my sheet this morning and just got a dismal 4/9

 



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