Roland Garros 2010 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest

Sandman · Social player

RE: Roland Garros 2010 'Battle of the Boards' pick 'em contest

Scratchy · Club Coach

Great Stuff!
World Number 1!
However I'm gonna make the most of it, as I feel it could be a brief stay at the top of the rankings............

Thanks as always Steven, its been really enjoyable.

eblunt · Club Coach

If there was a Pickem chamions race ( or whatever it was called, that thing where it was a table decided on points since Jan 1) Manaus would be storming a way with it !!

indiana · Tennis legend

Manaus is actually a bit unlucky in some ways that he is so consistent i.e. all 6 counters in the 500s.

He would be better longer term with the same total score but 2 or 3 say well in the 600s or more and others say about 400 or less.

The way he is going he's going to be dropping 500 scores without having real big counters.

Still ruddy impressive though !

eblunt · Club Coach

indiana wrote:

Manaus is actually a bit unlucky in some ways that he is so consistent i.e. all 6 counters in the 500s.

He would be better longer term with the same total score but 2 or 3 say well in the 600s or more and others say about 400 or less.

The way he is going he's going to be dropping 500 scores without having real big counters.

Still ruddy impressive though !

I'm a bit like that, out of the 11 scores I have, 10 are 479 or over, so it's difficult to get any big gain right now.

steven · Tennis legend

eblunt wrote:

indiana wrote:

Manaus is actually a bit unlucky in some ways that he is so consistent i.e. all 6 counters in the 500s.

He would be better longer term with the same total score but 2 or 3 say well in the 600s or more and others say about 400 or less.

The way he is going he's going to be dropping 500 scores without having real big counters.

Still ruddy impressive though !

I'm a bit like that, out of the 11 scores I have, 10 are 479 or over, so it's difficult to get any big gain right now.

That does mean though that you've got quite a while to manage a couple of really big scores that would propel you up into the top 10 before being at risk of a big drop.

Btw, if there was a pick 'em "Race", the top 100 based on the first four tournaments this year (including two slams where points can be counted twice) would be, with actual current ranking positions on the left:

73 Manaus AM 3424
3 Steven GR 3354
4 Shabba IN 3337
10 Roy GR 3331
70 Chris83 GR 3164
115 Sparkey GB 3119
34 Oneminutetomidknight BT 3118
59 mattk77 SG 3056
103 Josh BT 3023
22 hfwardhouse AM 3021

19 Hen MT 2977
6 TimS GR 2941
43 Cain Bradley BB 2915
27 Richard Morris (ASE) AM 2864
9 Akhenaten BT 2857
143 indiana BT 2845
49 Hawkeye AM 2841
144 Irena2 TA 2840
8 Dentist appointment IN 2829
89 EdTennisFan BB 2829

80 mysterX TA 2810
17 Oploskoffie TA 2808
84 mwoods TA 2808
51 mmmm8 TA 2785
76 Kamui010 MT 2781
7 t12j23r90 AM 2775
16 janeInScotland JM 2758
28 GVGirl TA 2754
83 bangkok IN 2739
104 fah51 CC 2738

18 gu3 IN 2719
14 Miles TA 2692
29 Imoen BT 2686
1 Scratchy BT 2659
69 patrick (TA) TA 2624
117 srberg DF 2613
20 Suliso TA 2595
35 nicki AM 2590
94 Claire Bear AM 2580
23 DavidC BT 2578

11 goldfish BT 2541
64 nelslus TA 2505
40 cazza99 AM 2480
63 Bruce GR 2476
60 Sue TN 2467
154 Reeltime AM 2454
37 emf123 IN 2452
41 PTMcMahon TA 2396
54 Katie AM 2393
32 qczi MT 2385

15 Linda AM 2366
81 rondun JM 2356
13 Jean-Marc BT 2340
52 BenP AM 2333
31 match22 RF 2312
146 Strokel RF 2291
171 Jennifer3164 AR 2291
71 amalyn MT 2287
227 Deathless Mortal MT 2282
132 eddie AM 2280

198 jaysee AM 2264
44 dewster99 AM 2248
187 Björki MT 2242
121 Claire Thompson JM 2241
25 eblunt BT 2228
126 -David-- AM 2222
62 Daniel/Belgarath1981 RF 2220
100 luvs10s TA 2213
24 bumfluff TW 2188
91 t_torres VB 2188

205 Duchess CC 2186
33 WimbledonAce AM 2177
175 British_is_Best BT 2168
120 Randall Six IN 2162
78 fil-813 IN 2161
135 ForeverDelayed BT 2160
178 JTContinental TA 2146
122 andys_ipod AM 2127
114 JAMES4578 JM 2125
250 JGS IN 2122

107 jm-fan JM 2114
98 Canadian WxMan IN 2113
245 ChrisSpotmen RG 2107
21 Omegadoom TA 2103
127 aedra1119 TA 2090
158 NiallE AM 2071
256 airsmashers BT 2067
92 francky RG 2063
169 Drewziph AM 2039
262 marina36 RG 2026

46 Lizzim AM 2015
50 Robxon BT 2005
55 sid AM 2005
12 Fiercehart TA 1997
170 JamieL AM 1983
273 Biggles IN 1942
108 Snoo Foo MT 1926
230 Robmeister33 RN 1923
45 LindaB JM 1909
93 Puschkin RG 1899

-- Edited by steven on Wednesday 9th of June 2010 02:49:00 PM

indiana · Tennis legend

Was that bridesmaid in 2nd ?

Heck, why isn't there a "runs away" symbol

steven · Tennis legend

Since I was tempted to make that comment myself, I might let you off. disbelief

Still, it does suggest RG might not have been my last chance to hit the top of the actual rankings after all, but I've had too big chances now and choked it both times. (or rather, Ferrer choked it this time and I can't remember who did last time!)