WIMBLEDON PICK 'EM and Battle of the Boards

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

WIMBLEDON PICK 'EM and Battle of the Boards + options re Andy w/d

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Just a thought that has crossed my mind about the robots... is there a robot which picks based on position in the champions race?

If not, then I can fill out an entry for it if people think it is a good idea to have in the competition

WallaceEMann · Lower Club Player

ForeverDelayed wrote:

steven wrote:

I've got three robots plus my own picks to do, so if anyone wants there to be a Billy the Bookie robot for this pick 'em (a suggestion someone had when I asked for new robots), please can you do his picks. (if you're going to, please post here first so that nobody duplicates your work!)

How to do it:

Use the normal entry form, and at the bottom, put
Billy (*)
as the name, pick Robot from the gender list and don't worry about the other fields down there, even if error messages say you should.

To pick the R1 matches, go to

http://odds.bestbetting.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens-matches/

change the odds to decimal by clicking the little 2.75 against odds format and then go through the R1 matches assuming Billy would pick the player with the lower odds to win.

If the odds are equal, go for the higher-ranked player (see http://stevegtennis.com/rankings/2007/s061807.htm)

For later rounds (or if any R1 matches are no shown), go to http://odds.bestbetting.com/tennis/wimbledon/men's-winner and for each match-up pick the player with the lower bookmaker odds to win - again, look at the rankings if odds are equal.

Thanks in advance!

-- Edited by steven at 22:15, 2007-06-24

If no-one else is currently doing it then I'll do one for Billy the Bookie in a couple of minutes

Have you done your TFF yet? wink

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

WallaceEMann wrote:

ForeverDelayed wrote:

steven wrote:

I've got three robots plus my own picks to do, so if anyone wants there to be a Billy the Bookie robot for this pick 'em (a suggestion someone had when I asked for new robots), please can you do his picks. (if you're going to, please post here first so that nobody duplicates your work!)

How to do it:

Use the normal entry form, and at the bottom, put
Billy (*)
as the name, pick Robot from the gender list and don't worry about the other fields down there, even if error messages say you should.

To pick the R1 matches, go to

http://odds.bestbetting.com/tennis/wimbledon/mens-matches/

change the odds to decimal by clicking the little 2.75 against odds format and then go through the R1 matches assuming Billy would pick the player with the lower odds to win.

If the odds are equal, go for the higher-ranked player (see http://stevegtennis.com/rankings/2007/s061807.htm)

For later rounds (or if any R1 matches are no shown), go to http://odds.bestbetting.com/tennis/wimbledon/men's-winner and for each match-up pick the player with the lower bookmaker odds to win - again, look at the rankings if odds are equal.

Thanks in advance!

-- Edited by steven at 22:15, 2007-06-24

If no-one else is currently doing it then I'll do one for Billy the Bookie in a couple of minutes

Have you done your TFF yet?

I think so... well, I did it earlier today so it should have registered it as being done. I used the same username as here so it should be recognizable as me

steven · Tennis legend

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Just a thought that has crossed my mind about the robots... is there a robot which picks based on position in the champions race?

If not, then I can fill out an entry for it if people think it is a good idea to have in the competition

Thanks very much for doing the Billy one biggrin

, if you want to do a champions race based one, that's fine too, we've got a space
how about Racy (*) as a name?

The (*)s just avoid us having to add one in later - it refers to the robots footnote on the results page

steven · Tennis legend

I'm using rankings from the Monday before the tournament, as usual, even though the deadline is actually on Monday. But you must be doing that too, so that's fine.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:

ForeverDelayed wrote:

Just a thought that has crossed my mind about the robots... is there a robot which picks based on position in the champions race?

If not, then I can fill out an entry for it if people think it is a good idea to have in the competition

Thanks very much for doing the Billy one , if you want to do a champions race based one, that's fine too, we've got a space
how about Racy (*) as a name?

The (*)s just avoid us having to add one in later - it refers to the robots footnote on the results page

I've started having a go at it, so it should be done within 10 minutes or so, although I don't think Racy is going to do very well with the amount of clay courters that seem to be winning matches, plus every Brit ends up losing in round 1

steven · Tennis legend

The race is bound to be a bit clay court biased at the moment.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:

I'm using rankings from the Monday before the tournament, as usual, even though the deadline is actually on Monday. But you must be doing that too, so that's fine.

The ATP have already posted the rankings and the race for next week, so that is what I was using (didn't actually notice until half way through, so I could use last weeks if you want me to)

steven · Tennis legend

Racy will be like the anti-Womble (womble follows the Wimby seeding formula, Racy ignores grass completely)

steven · Tennis legend

Oh have they? Let's both use the up to date ones this time then, I haven't done much on the rankings-related bots yet.

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Racy has sent in her entry... and if Chela, Robredo and Davydenko all reach the Wimbledon quarter finals, then I think that she will end up as the winner

steven · Tennis legend

so did you use old or new rankings? new I assume? as long as we're consistent (because the ASEs of this world DO notice LOL) I don't mind

-- Edited by steven at 23:51, 2007-06-24

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Thanks for these FD, it's really helpful. I've got Racy now so she's(??) counted...we now have 156 entries (including 2 robots)

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

steven wrote:

so did you use old or new rankings? new I assume? as long as we're consistent (because the ASEs of this word DO notice LOL) I don't mind

I used the new rankings, as I had started off using them (to be honest, I don't think there would be much in the way of change if I had used the old rankings)