JonH comes home wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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And here is the final list of nominations for Player of the Month over the season: Congrats to Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski who both got 5 (out of a max of 8) , 4 of them together, 1 separately. And to Billy Harris and Joe Salisbury who both got 4. I will let Bob give Billy his award when he next sees him

Nominations
J. Murray 5
N. Skupski 5
B. Harris 4
J. Salisbury 4
A. Hewett 3
D. Evans 3
E. Raducanu 3
H. Dart 3
J. Burrage 3
L. Broady 3
C. Norrie 2
E. Appleton 2
F. Jones 2
G. Reid 2
H. Watson 2
J. Draper 2
J. Pinnington-Jones 2
K. Boulter 2
K. Edmund 2
L. Glasspool 2
S. Murray-Sharan 2
S. Parker 2
A. Barnett 1
A. Fery 1
A. Matusevich 1
A. Rajecki 1
B. Klein 1
C. Broom 1
D. Cox 1
D. Inglot 1
E. Maloney 1
F. Gill 1
G. Houghton 1
GB U12 Girls 1
H. Klugman 1
H. Oluwadare 1
H. Patten 1
J. Clarke 1
J. Conway 1
J. Hersey 1
J. Konta 1
J. Whiley 1
L. Johnson 1
M. Lumsden 1
M. Mutavdzic 1

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Cam Norrie, Emily Appleton and Katie Boulter and Lloyd Glasspool will be the only 2 time nominees to not make the final player of season poll. Thems the breaks.  

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Monday 14th of December 2020 07:14:05 AM

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I dont think any of those would have won the player of season but in case of Lloyd certainly and maybe the others quite possibly would have deserved a place on the voting. But they didnt tick the boxes and get in, like real tennis world I guess! 

So, the player of the season polls will be coming out this evening.

Each group will have 4 players, and the first 4 groups will go up tonight, 4 tomorrow, and then each round over each evening of the rest of the week through to the final 4 players on Friday night/Saturday.

For each player I have done a short write up. It is to the best of my knowledge and with no intent at any bias (taking it from ATP, WTA, ITF and Scoreboard.com). The wins/loss stats I have put up for each account not just for WTA, ATP, ITF but also through the lock down months and the various Brits, Pro Series, British Tour etc events that don't appear in those stats. So they are manually calculated and therefore may not be accurate. I am sure some folks will check their favourites, if you do and my maths is wrong ( I tried to do 32 players and get tired!) then shout and I will amend accordingly and for future rounds.

I also haven't gone into depth on rankings of players beaten by individuals ie they beat the WR 126 and where only ranked 500 at the time, what a win , type stuff. I am sure there are many players with great wins and losses, and lots of colour to be added to please add to my comments with anything you wish to add

However, the stats are just for information so if any prove wrong I wont take responsibility if it impacts your vote - voter beware and all that, so please do your own research if you wish to and make up your own minds!

Let the fun begin tonight!

Finally, in each group of 4, the top 2 will go through. If we have ties for those places, I will look to take all ties through...the run offs can be fun but limited folks are around at 11 pm at night and probably not fair - and this is very important () to get right! So no run offs, just multiple ties will all survive to go through - however, there is an exception. In our March/April player of the month poll, the winner got all the votes and no one else scored at all. If that happens here, everyone with zero votes will get knocked out. This is player of the season vote and I dont think someone getting zero votes deserves to stay in the competition, so all zero voted participants will be knocked out. However, I dont think it is very likely that we will get a group where all the votes go to the same player - not likely, but possible

Finally, finally. We have mens, womens, doubles specialists, Main ATP/WTA tour, ITF level, juniors and wheelchair players in this vote. I have tried very hard to ensure that "like" players are largely kept apart. With 32 players it is probably impossible but I have tried and , think, I have done a pretty decent job of it.

I also have tried to ensure that winners and runners up in past player of the months polls are nicely spread through the groups and also players from categories like "most tournie wins" etc are spread apart.

It is quite a juggling act but largely has worked out ok with pretty even groups of "types" of players and serious contenders!

But just in case you see two players you would put in the same category, remember it is not an exact science and what we have is still probably better than a completely random draw.

Christine wrote:

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Thanks so much for doing this, little sparks in a currently dull life are so important

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 Thank you Christine - I enjoy it , to be honest, and it amuses me. Ever since I was young I have created fantasy events and competitions. I remember first doing it in 1978 (I have the records somewhere on a yellowing scrap of A4 paper) when I gave my own points to mens tournaments on the Grand Prix (as it was) circuit and have maintained various "fantasy" events and rankings since. I am now 55, I was 13 then, so 42 years! But they are largely for my own amusement, my wife thinks I am just messing and wasting time - she is probably correct. The main thing I often do is create fantasy draws for events and then use H2H stats, last match played on that surface etc to work through the draw. All a bit of fun. 

But this is something much more interesting as it involves other people and their thoughts and is thus much less predictable and open to real thoughts and processes. I enjoyed the polls we did in March and April a lot and if I can think of ideas, will keep the process going into the future in some form or other...looks like we may need it!!      

And our full list of finalists for Player of Season confirmed as

January PoM Joe Salisbury 1
Jan PoM RU NA
Jan 3rd place NA
February PoM Heather Watson 2
Feb PoM RU Dan Evans 3
Feb 3rd place Kyle Edmund 4
March PoM Sam Murray-Sharan 5
March PoM RU NA
Mar 3rd place NA
Jun/Jul PoM Arthur Fery 6
Jun/Jul PoM RU Harriet Dart 7
Jun/Jul 3rd place Jodie Burrage 8
August PoM Jo Konta 9
Aug PoM RU Stuart Parker 10
Aug 3rd place Emma Raducanu 11
September PoM Fran Jones 12
Sept PoM RU Liam Broady 13
Sept 3rd place Matilda Mutavdzic 14
October PoM Fran Jones **
Oct PoM RU Alfie Hewett 15
Oct 3rd place Dan Evans
Nov/Dec PoM/RU/3rd Hep Oluwadare 30
British Tour Leader Grace Piper 31
British Tour RU Anton Matusevich 32
Mens Singles #1 Dan Evans **
Mens Singles #2 Kyle Edmund **
Womens Singles #1 Jo Konta **
Womens Singles #2 Heather Watson **
Mens Doubles #1 Joe Salisbury **
Mens Doubles #2 Jamie Murray 16
Womens Doubles #1 Heather Watson **
Womens Doubles #2 Naomi Broady 17

3 or more PoM Nominations in year Jamie Murray **
Neal Skupski 18
Joe Salisbury **
Alfie Hewett **
Billy Harris 19
Dan Evans **
Emma Raducanu **
Harriet Dart **
Jodie Burrage **
Liam Broady **

3 or more tournie wins Alfie Hewett **
Gordon Reid 20
Jack Pinnington-Jones 21
Mattias Southcombe 22
Sam Murray-Sharan **
Will Nolan 23

ITF Mens Singles #1 Jack Draper 24
ITF Womens Singles #1 Emilie Lindh 25
ITF Mens Doubles #1 Luke Johnson 26
ITF Womens Doubles #1 Anna Popescu 27
Junior Boys #1 Arthur Fery **
Junior Girls #1 Matilda Mutavdzic **

Wheelchair Mens #1 Alfie Hewett **
Wheelchair Womens #1 Jordanne Whiley 28
Wheelchair Quad #1 Andy Lapthorne 29

Groups A to D coming up later this evening, maybe around 10 ish, certainly after 9!