Pick 'Em Hamburg - Practice Week

GC77 · County player

RE: Pick 'Em Hamburg - Practice Week

WallaceEMann · Lower Club Player

Sorry I missed this yesterday and today. I've been under the weather and not been online. Good luck with running the tournament

GC77 · County player

Still time to enter if you PM me your email address

GC77 · County player

I'll be online again around 8am, so if anyone needs an Entry Sheet send me an email.

steven · Tennis legend

Just sent in an entry without looking at any H2Hs or even really thinking about any of the matches - it'll be interesting to see how it compares with entries that I do think about!

One thing that doing the picks reminded me of - I wasn't very confident about my picks last week (though clearly I should have been) but one thing I did do differently from any other time was to be completely ruthless about picking who I thought would win instead of who I wanted to win.

Obviously, I've never gone totally the other way (i.e. I've never picked Andy to win the whole tournament and certainly not had him meeting Tim in an AMS Final), but I have tended to maybe predict Andy and Tim to go a round further than I really expected, I had always picked Fed to beat Rafa before Rome, I've tended not to pick the Argentinian players to go too far and I've not allowed for regular self-destruction by the French players, whom I tend to like.

Whether it was just a coincidence that the new approach worked last week, I don't know!

GC77 · County player

Pick analysis for opening 5 matches (all start at 10am UK time):

17%	for	Stanislas Wawrinka
83%	for	(15) JC Ferrero

17%	for	Arnaud Clement
83%	for	Radek Stepanek

0%	for	(PR) Martin Verkerk
100%	for	Nicolas Almagro

33%	for	Olivier Rochus
67%	for	(Q) Paul-Henri Mathieu

17%	for	Marc Gicquel
83%	for	Gilles Simon

These figures may well change as a result of entries received between now and entry deadline at 10am.

I'll publish a fuller analysis around 10.30am

(There are 18 entrants so far including myself)

cazza · Improver

I've sent an amendemnt -before 10.00 I hope this is OK. Won't affect first round. Thansk for doing this. I'd have had withdrawal symptoms if we hadn't had a pickem for this.

-- Edited by cazza at 10:04, 2007-05-14

johnnylad · Tennis legend

There's no hope for Verkerk!

GC77 · County player

That's been amended for you Cazza

GC77 · County player

Pick 'Em Analysis:

Winner Picks:

13 for Rafa
2 for Fed
1 for Andy
1 for Nole
1 for Canas

GC77 · County player

Noon matches analysis:

11%	for	Gaston Gaudio
89%	for	(11) Richard Gasquet

11%	for	Juan Ignacio Chela
89%	for	Guillermo Canas

61%	for	(Q) Juan Monaco
39%	for	Dominik Hrbaty

44%	for	(Q) Simone Bolelli
56%	for	(Q) Florent Serra

28%	for	Dmitry Tursunov
72%	for	(PR) Igor Andreev

GC77 · County player

Monday pm match analysis:

33%	for	(16) Lleyton Hewitt
67%	for	Agustin Calleri

100%	for	(12) David Ferrer
0%	for	Jonas Bjorkman

94%	for	Robin Soderling
6%	for	Robby Ginepri

56%	for	(14) Marcos Baghdatis
44%	for	(WC) Philipp Kohlschreiber

94%	for	(10) Tomas Berdych
6%	for	Fernando Verdasco

17%	for	(Q) Nicolas Massu
83%	for	Marat Safin

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

You can tell this is not a real pick'em, since the players I picked up are a set up in each of the first 5 matches.

Thanks for running this guy. Avoids all those nasty wirhdrawal symptoms.

GC77 · County player

No problem ASE!!

AnnuverScotinExile · Social player

What is even more frightening is that I'm with the majority vote in all but a couple of the matches. One of those is Clement/Stepanek, and Arnaud is a set up. Everyone is soon to be 1 out of 1 (ALmagro at match point), though I'm not so keen on Rochus being a break up in the second.