So who fancies a vote in a couple of weeks for our favourite non British players ? Im up to do it
should be fun!
Cool - I am thinking something like the top 80 men and 80 women, plus the top 20 mens doubles and 20 womens doubles not in the singles list for a 200 player draw...I thought half that but not sure if that would diminish the fun.
I would make it 20 groups of 10 and then reduce it quickly to 60 players (6 groups of 10) , then 18 (2 groups of 9) and a final 6 perhaps - I think reducing to 4 takes away some of the fun in this so wont to keep the groups reasonably sized
good concept, so limited to current ranked players only . Just thinking, if for example my favorite non Brit is Kim Clijsters or Del Potro, they wouldn't feature in this. Which is fine, just need to clarify the criteria. Looking forward to it!
Yep, current ranked only. Thing is once I open it up we all favourites and I could go on forever taking guesses at who to include. So much easier to be strict and have a rule!
ive realised the top 90/100 in both mens and womens is a LOT of players and also that many of them will gather no support at all - am making a bigger mountain than I need to
I will rethink and still do something but with a lesser field, I think! Maybe top 40/50
Gone for the top 50 men and top 50 women. 10 groups of 10, then 30 players in next round into 3 groups of 10, and then a final with 9 - going to keep it wide and interesting and see what mayhem ensues. Already drawn the groups at lunchtime - random putting players in seeding groupings of 1-10, 11-20 etc to allocate them into their pools - it has thrown up one clear group of death! Ha.
only thing is, and for one of the mods, could we maybe have a poll/voting section to take away from this general thread - or could predictions be renamed predictions and polling??
Might indeed be a good idea. except I'm not sure that any of the active mods can do such renaming. Steven might he able to or know someone else who is able.