For full results, see www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html

-- Edited by steven at 21:04, 2007-07-05

Pos	Today	PLAYER	TEAM	TODAY	TOTAL	%
1	up 2	Cdagger	AM	(64)	305	79.4%
2	up 2	Allan	AM	(64)	304	79.2%
3	up 2	Guy	BT	(64)	301	78.4%
4	up 8	Xenon21	AM	(64)	296	77.1%
5	up 8	courtjester72	BB	(64)	295	76.8%
6	up 8	Grofica	MT	(64)	294	76.6%
-	-	Womble (*)	-	(64)	292	76.0%
7	up 10	Spraggz	AM	(64)	292	76.0%
8	up 16	scooter	AM	(64)	287	74.7%
9	up 17	English-boy	AM	(64)	287	74.7%
10	up 25	pullarius	AM	(64)	281	73.2%
11	up 27	RobC	BT	(64)	281	73.2%
12	up 27	lovesandy	AR	(64)	280	72.9%
13	up 27	Josh	BT	(64)	279	72.7%
14	up 27	Eli Scandalis	IN	(64)	279	72.7%
15	up 33	Christine	BZ	(64)	276	71.9%

P	Today	Tm	No	AvePts	Score	% Max	Full team name
1	same	AM	47	(294.70)	305.12	68.1%	AndyMurray.com
2	same	BT	20	(301.25)	304.36	67.9%	BritishTennis.net
3	up 1	GR	14	(294.43)	293.98	65.6%	Rusedski.co.uk
4	up 1	BZ	6	(295.50)	290.24	64.8%	BritishTennisZone.net
5	up 1	IN	9	(289.67)	287.75	64.2%	Assorted Individuals
6	up 1	RF	7	(288.57)	286.23	63.9%	RogerFederer.com
7	up 3	BB	5	(283.00)	282.23	63.0%	BBC 606 boards
8	up 1	TY	11	(282.18)	282.04	63.0%	Tennis4you.com
9	dn 6	RN	3	(279.00)	280.20	62.5%	RafaelNadal.com
10	dn 2	KC	1	(267.00)	277.52	61.9%	Kings of Clay
11	same	MT	18	(271.44)	270.52	60.4%	MensTennisForums
12	same	AR	28	(236.14)	219.65	49.0%	AndyRoddick.com

See http://www.britishtennis.net/Competitions.html for links to the final detailed results plus just about all the other information you could possibly want to know about this pick 'em!

The winners

Congratulations to AndyMurray.com - after spending half the competition at the bottom of the table, a mass of correct picks near the end gave them 1st place in the teams competition depite not winning a single round! They were followed by BritishTennis.net, just 0.2% behind but with the top unadjusted average (*) and Rusedski.co.uk, in what turned out to be a triumph for the teams with the most experience of this competition, though that may have been a coincidence!


Congratulations to Cdagger from AndyMurray.com and Northern Ireland, who won the biggest pick 'em we have held to date by just one point from Allan, also from AndyMurray.com but from Scotland, with another Scot, Guy from BritishTennis.net in 3rd, just 3 points further back. So, yes, even though whether or not you finished in the top half of the table ended up largely depending on who you picked to be the champion, the first few places were decided by just the odd R1 or R2 pick!

The top 10 individuals consisted of 5 players from AndyMurray.com, 2 from BritishTennis.net and one each from the BBC 606 boards, MTF and AndyRoddick.com.

Males beat females by a whopping 4.8% (and 4 rounds to 3) in the end, but this had far more to do with 26 out of the 28 entrants in the last places team being female (and most of them having picked Duckboy to win) than anything else.

O18s beat U18s by 1.9% (and 5 rounds to 2), having been ahead for virtually the whole tournament.

Actives (amateur players and ITF players plus an umpire) beat pure Fans by 3.0% (and 4 rounds to 3) - this competition had been too close to call all the way up to the semi-finals.

(*) Although the final table makes it look like using unadjusted averages might have been ok, it was clear at times during the tournament (if you looked closely enough) why the team size adjustment had to be there. The fact that the two biggest teams are at the extreme ends of the table has mainly occurred because so many of the entrants from AR.com picked Duckboy to win the title. However, an interesting outcome is that because AM.com and BT.net finished 1st & 2nd, if this had been a pure AM.com v BT.net competition and all other scores were ignored, BT.net would have been above the AM&BT only average and AM.com below it, and BT.net would have won - giving us team and individual winners from opposite boards for the 5th time in a row!

The race to be the 'lanterne rouge'

My follow organiser Bethan/imoen/baiaine sewd up the keenly contested battle for last place, finally managing to get Daisy to overtake her on the last Saturday. Daisy may be quite disappointed because for a long time, it looked like she might make in last place for an incredible two grand slams in a row - the odds of coming last in these two consecutive pick 'ems at random, given the number of entrants in each, would have been about 1 in 7000!

In the teams competition, AndyRoddick.com ended up bringing up the rear, everything having hinged for them on whether Fed reached the Final or not - had Duckboy or even his conqueror Gasquet reached the Final, they might well have finished 1st!

Keeping an eye on the Robots

Womble, the Wimby seeding committee bot, ended up in the top 10. In all three matches where Womble and Roberta (the ATP rankings bot) differed, Womble got it right. Early top bot Billy the Bookie and rankings bot Roberta also finished within the top 30, thanks to it being a no. 1 seed beat no. 2 seed Final. Racy dropped off the pace right at the end, having picked Rafa (who was ahead in the ATP race) to win, while BritBot is not surprisingly behind all of the human entrants and likely to provide the embarrassed gorillas with rather a crunchy meal!

Two players who deserve an honourable mention (at the very least)

In this cruellest of cruel pick 'ems, Luke Croll (GR) and Invu2day (MTF), who between them wore the 'yellow jersey' for most of the first week and a half, may have ended up 58th and 78th respectively, but they both smashed the record for the number of correct picks and are the first players ever to get 100 picks correct. Compare this with sheddie's feeble 91 correct when he won the RG pick 'em (!) and the 93 picks this competition's winner got right. Because 14 of sheddie's correct RG picks came in the last 15 high scoring matches though, his record total score of 376, but individual winner cdagger, with 13 out of the last 15 picks correct, only came up 9 points short.

MTF also deserve a mention - despite finishing second to last, they seemed almost invincible over the first two or three rounds and even at the end they had the highest average number of individual picks correct.


For the updated 'hall of fame', please see http://www.britishtennis.net/07pickem/hallfame.htm

For the updated pick 'em rankings after Wimby and some comments, please see http://andymurray.com/community/discussion/2186/overall-pick-em-rankings-after-wimbledon-2007/ - Guy from BT.net is now the no. 1!

-- Edited by steven at 02:08, 2007-07-09

second BT player and 9th overall! not bad considering I was 90- odd after a round and a bit. Still: being behind Womble is a bit humiliating. I blame Tim.

john wrote:

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Keep up the great work Steve and imo, awesome organisation. I'm sure everyone who took part is grateful. I know I am.

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Hear! Hear! Incredible work guys. Thanks so much.

Well done to Steven and Imoen...outstanding work

mmm 86th not too bad for me...I must take more than 2mins to make my picks next time !!!