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steven


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goldfish wrote:

Just can't believe how much work you put into this and what a fantastic job you and your helpers do. I've not yet managed to work out a)when you get your real work done b)when you pursue that other hobby of yours and c)when you sleep. Not only that but you are winning too. Amazing and brilliant. Thanks once again.


Thanks, we do our best. The best answer to your question is c) sleep - what's that? wink

 (Do you think you could also do something about the rain?)

LOL unfortunately not, but maybe Bethan can! (she's better than me at keeping that unruly AM.com lot fairly sweet, which must be many times harder than controlling the weather! wink)


 

WallaceEMann wrote:

Impressive stuff, guys.

The amount of work you do for this is amazing.

Also thanks. It's not as bad as it looks now that so much is semi-automated, though this one has been more work than I expected.
 

WallaceEMann wrote:

You must have very understanding bosses!



Bethan's a student and as for me, I am the boss! LOL (and don't worry, I fit plenty of work in yawn)

Having worked 18 hours+ a day to make the business successful and get people trained up, I'm so used to surviving on very little sleep that I can just about fit in stuff like this. This is also notionally our quietest part of the year, though actually it's been anything but this year. yawn

Either that or I'm mad. Most probably both! wink



-- Edited by steven at 02:33, 2007-06-29

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THURSDAY NIGHT UPDATE

All of the detailed web pages about the competition have now been updated and are linked to from http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html

The updates include:


- team and individual results updated to the end of R2 (by the way, 'Fans' overtook 'Actives' today!)
- the downloadable Excel sheet with all of the entry information on it has had its colour-coding updated to the end of R2
- a new picks analysis for R3 (and colour coding of the R2 outcomes to show where we went most wrong) and sorting by popularity within each match (*)
- a new column on the individual tables which shows how many over your picks to win R3 matches actually made it to R3 in the first place - see next post


(*) You will notice that some of the matches have had very few different winners picked for them, e.g. in match 2, 66% of us went for Tursunov, 33% for Haas and the only other picks (one each) were Zib and Fleishman. Conversely, all eight players who were originally in the section that has resulted in the Davydenko-Monfils match were picked to reach R4 by at least one entrant. N.B. Korolev was picked by an individual entrant, in case you are wondering why there is only a 1% in the ALL column.



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As I mentioned above, I have added a new column to the individual tables which shows you how many of the players you picked to win the current round actually made it to that round in the first place. These new figures give some idea of who's got the most scope to pile up the points in R3. I'm hoping some of you will find it useful - it was simple enough to add once I realised how!

I find it very interesting that the entrants who could still potentially get all 16 R3 winners right (because all of their R3 winner picks survived R2) don't include anyone in the top 10 (*), despite those in the top 10 having got the most picks right so far, and do include an entrant who is currently only just inside the top 50! The lucky/clever three are:

- BBC's courtjester72 in 12th=, 11 points behind the leader
- AM's Kels in 16th=, 12 points behind the leader
- AM's cdagger in 47th=, 17 points behind the leader


(*) All of the top 10 have at least 13 R3 winner picks who survived R2 and everybody right down to the bottom of the table can still potentially score for at least 9 R3 winners.



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Looks like my tournament is at a premature end after the heroic downfall of Tigger.

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Detailed results after Friday are at http://www.britishtennis.net/competitions.html - apologies for the dialy, the site has been a victim of this pick 'em comp's success today, using up all its allowed bandwidth for 30 days in just 13!

The summary follows:

TEAMS

PTodayTmNoAvePtsScore% MaxFull team name
  
 1sameMT     18(107.67)108.1867.6%MensTennisForums
 2up 4BZ      6(106.17)104.7465.5%BritishTennisZone.net
 3dn 1GR     14(104.71)104.6365.4%Rusedski.co.uk
 4dn 1BT     20(103.45)103.6364.8%BritishTennis.net
 5sameRN      3(101.67)102.0163.8%RafaelNadal.com
 6up 1AR     28(101.71)101.5063.4%AndyRoddick.com
 7dn 3IN      9(101.22)101.4663.4%Assorted Individuals
 8up 1KC      1(95.00)100.4162.8%Kings of Clay
 9up 1BB      5(99.00)100.3962.7%BBC 606 boards
10dn 2RF      7(99.43)100.3462.7%RogerFederer.com
11up 1AM     47(100.83)99.7162.3%AndyMurray.com
12dn 1TY     11(98.91)99.3962.1%Tennis4you.com



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Top 15 follows ...



-- Edited by steven at 04:07, 2007-06-30

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... if I can get it to work ...

-- Edited by steven at 04:08, 2007-06-30

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PosTodayPLAYER    TEAM   TODAY    TOTAL    %
  
    1up 1Luke Croll          GR     (16)   12578.1%
    2up 10courtjester72       BB     (24)   12376.9%
    3dn 2Invu2day            MT     (12)   12276.3%
    4up 6Christine           BZ     (20)   12075.0%
    5sameSteven              GR     (16)   11974.4%
    6samekindablue           MT     (16)   11974.4%
    7up 4Josh                BT     (20)   11974.4%
    8dn 5cazza99             AM     (12)   11873.8%
    9dn 2Bjorki              MT     (16)   11873.8%
   10up 4Grofica             MT     (20)   11873.8%
   11up 7Grass court!        AR     (20)   11773.1%
   12up 10Jeannie             AR     (20)   11773.1%
   13dn 9Nadia               MT     (12)   11672.5%
   14dn 6David Carter        BT     (16)   11672.5%
   15up 11Ivanatis            MT     (20)   11672.5%


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Today's detailed results can be found via www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html

Is anyone still interested in updates on here (I'm asking because I seem to be the only person posting on this thread) or are you all getting your updates on AM.com / not interested any more?

TEAMS after 109 matches

The battle to lead the pack chasing MTF has been switching around between the three teams that between them contain many of the people who post on here, i.e. BT.net itself, BTZ and the Rusedski board. This is how it looked at the end of the day:

PTodayTmNoAvePtsScore% MaxFull team name
  
 1sameMT     18(127.22)127.7569.4%MensTennisForums
 2up 1GR     14(124.43)124.3467.6%Rusedski.co.uk
 3up 1BT     20(123.65)123.9567.4%BritishTennis.net
 4dn 2BZ      6(124.17)123.2767.0%BritishTennisZone.net
 5up 1IN      9(121.22)121.3365.9%Assorted Individuals
 6up 1AR     28(121.29)121.1365.8%AndyRoddick.com
 7up 1BB      5(120.60)121.0765.8%BBC 606 boards
 8up 1KC      1(119.00)121.0265.8%Kings of Clay
 9dn 4RN      3(119.00)120.5065.5%RafaelNadal.com
10sameRF      7(118.86)119.7665.1%RogerFederer.com
11up 1TY     11(118.55)119.0064.7%Tennis4you.com
12dn 1AM     47(119.55)117.8864.1%AndyMurray.com



-- Edited by steven at 22:30, 2007-07-02

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Luke Croll (GR) maintains his lead at the top of the individual table. The real star of this round however is the BBC's courtjester72 who has got no less than 10/12 so far in R3! Only 3rd placed Josh (BT) with 9/12 comes close to that - that's why Josh is up 4 places today. smile

Team leaders MTF only have one player in the top 8 now (early leader Invu2day in 4th place), but they then have 5 of the next 7, which explains why the MTF team is still so far ahead at the top of the teams table.

Biggest fallers today were Jelena (AR) down 58 to 106 and loo4efc (RN) down 64 from 20 to 84 - the latter got 0/4 today. cry Billy the bookie bot has also had a dire R3, getting just 5/12 correct in R3 so far.

Biggest risers of the day were Carrie (AM) & OSmeone (KC), both up 37 at 96 & 97 respectively. smile Quite a few players rose more than 30 places today.

The other interesting thing about today's results is that entrants from England now fill the top 8 places!

-- Edited by steven at 22:34, 2007-07-02

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TOP 15 follows, if it works ...



-- Edited by steven at 22:36, 2007-07-02

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PosTodayPLAYER    TEAM   TODAY    TOTAL    %
  
    1sameLuke Croll          GR     (16)   14981.0%
    2samecourtjester72       BB     (16)   14779.9%
    3up 4Josh               BT     (16)   14377.7%
    4dn 1Invu2day            MT     (12)   14277.2%
    5up 3cazza99             AM     (16)   14277.2%
    6up 8David Carter        BT     (16)   14076.1%
    7dn 3Christine           BZ     (12)   14076.1%
    8dn 3Steven              GR     (12)   13975.5%
    9dn 3kindablue           MT     (12)   13975.5%
   10dn 1Bjorki              MT     (12)   13875.0%
   11dn 1Grofica             MT     (12)   13875.0%
   12up 5Kels               AM     (16)   13875.0%
   13dn 2Grass court!        AR     (12)   13774.5%
   14dn 1Nadia               MT     (12)   13673.9%
   15sameIvanatis            MT     (12)   13673.9%


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I'm reading here steven, but also over at am.com.

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I'm an interested bystander. Come on BT...

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I don't read am.com, so I've been checking whenever you update here.

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