USO pick em predictions competition

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

RE: USO pick em predictions competition

Vonce · Club Coach

Vonce wrote:

I suppose you got my picks then, Rob?

steven · Tennis legend

Just seen the amazing Agassi match

and with that result, I ended up on 18/24 for the day, which hopefully isn't too bad ... but strangely enough, 4 of the 6 matches that went against me were grouped together in the 15th 1/16th of the draw, which I won't get any points at all for that section in R2, R3 or R4.

Drew · Aug 29, 2006

Stew_B wrote:

I've got the predictions of Johnnylad, Sally, Mkkreuk, Imoen, Murrayman650 and myself (I think Andymonium has all the others), and currently, after 12 results, the table looks like this:-

Stew_B 10
Sally 8
Johnnylad 6
Murrayman650 6
Imoen 6
Mkkreuk 6

Unfortunaltely for Murrayman650, it appears that there are several errors in his predictions, so whilst I'll try and iron it out, he may lose some points later on as a result.

Who is doing the results ? I thought it was Andymonium...Stew can you check with him...it would be good to have one place for the leaderboard / table...also can I suggest that it is only updated at the completion of a full round...what do you think ?

Thanks..........

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

Drew wrote:

Stew_B wrote:

I've got the predictions of Johnnylad, Sally, Mkkreuk, Imoen, Murrayman650 and myself (I think Andymonium has all the others), and currently, after 12 results, the table looks like this:-

Stew_B 10
Sally 8
Johnnylad 6
Murrayman650 6
Imoen 6
Mkkreuk 6

Unfortunaltely for Murrayman650, it appears that there are several errors in his predictions, so whilst I'll try and iron it out, he may lose some points later on as a result.

Who is doing the results ? I thought it was Andymonium...Stew can you check with him...it would be good to have one place for the leaderboard / table...also can I suggest that it is only updated at the completion of a full round...what do you think ?

Thanks..........

Andymonium is doing the results, I'm just trying to help out. I sent Andymonium my predictions, along with the predictions posted on the forum in my spreadsheet, and although I only have the predictions of the people who posted them on the forum, Andymonium has them all.

About only updating the the leaderboard at the end of the round, since a round lasts for 2-3 days, I think daily updates would possibly be best.

Anyway, with the pedictions I have, here's the leaderboard after day 1 :
Stew_B 18
Sally 18
Imoen 13
Johnnylad 13
Mkkreuk 13
Murrayman650 13

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

FAO: Murrayman650, I'm going to list some of the errors here, along with what I've done about them in my spreadsheet, however, Andymonium will have the final say in what should be done.

In Round 1, you predicted Karlovic to beat Soderling, but included Solderling in Round 2, and also up to and including the Semifinal; for this, I've changed your first round prediction to Soderling.

In Round 1, you predicted Verdasco to beat Santoro, but included Santoro in Round 2 (where he beat Zabaleta) and Round 3 (where he lost to Roddick); for this, I've changed your first round prediction to Santoro.

In Round 1, you predicted Montanes to beat Hewitt, in Round 2, Montanes to beat Kim, and in Round 3, Djokovic to beat Hewitt. For this, I've just assumed you predicted Djokovic to beat Montanes in Round 3.

In Round 2, you predicted Johansson to beat Becker, but in Round 3, you predicted Baghdatis to beat Becker. For this, I've now got Baghdatis beating Johansson in Round 3.

Okay, that's just the bottom half of the draw! I think that there's also some things wrong with the top half, so I'll have a look through that later.

eblunt · Club Coach

Andymonium wrote:

Vonce wrote:

I suppose it's too late now then eh? Sorry, I haven't been around much of late.. Just had things to do and that and was my birthday last week and just been spending time with the family alot of late. But I could still make a dash of predicting it all within the next hour or 2 if you let me in?

But if I'm too late it's ok.

yep ur in. Just email me Rob88hock@hotmail.com with your picks.
You have longer than 2 hours. You have till tomorrow 11 o'clock which is 4p.m. GBR time.

Can you confirm you got mine OK - I sent it as a PM on here ....

Thanks, Ed

Andymonium · Satellite level

i have all the draws so i guess il should be doing the results....i was going to update them after every round

and yeah eblunt ig ot urs

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

When will the points for round 1 be posted? Have you found my spreadsheet useful?

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

how does the scoring work in round 2? (and beyond). Do you have to have the correct winner to gain the points or the correct winner and loser?

Drew · Aug 31, 2006

imoen wrote:

how does the scoring work in round 2? (and beyond). Do you have to have the correct winner to gain the points or the correct winner and loser?

You only get points for 2nd rnd matches if the 2nd rnd winner ONLY matches your selection.

For eg I have Ljubicic v Gasguet in the 2nd rnd.....my understanding is that if Gasguet wins this round then I get the 2pts even though he is not playing Ljubici.

I cant check back as the contest web page is no longer there but Im sure that is how it works....!

Drew · Aug 31, 2006

Simple question....Coria retired v Sweeting ? How is that resolved...I chose Coria....is this void or is it the case of Sweeting won due to a retirement ?

Andymonium can you decide please

Drew · Aug 31, 2006

If I take Coria as a defeat then Im 42/64 1st round..which is nearly 66% sucess rate !

Stew_B · Intermediate Club Player

These are just the scores of the people I have, and I've given both Sally and Mkkreuk a point for predicting Sweeting to beat Coria:-

Stew_B 46
Sally 45
Imoen 42
Mkkreuk 40
Johnnylad 37
Murrayman650 37

In round 2, Imoen, Johnnylad and Murrayman all predicted Rochus to beat Coria, but I predicted Coria to beat Rochus

As Coria retired, and didn't just lose, would I be able to retrospectively change my 2nd round prediction to Rochus beating Sweeting?

Rob, I'm sorry if we're bothering you with these questions!

steven · Tennis legend

I got 50 in R1, I think. When I new I was close, I really wanted to get the half century (sad, I know!) so I was sweating on the last two matches late last night, where my picks went 2 sets up then got pegged back to 2-2 before both winning the final set in their matches.