jaysee
31-12-2019, 11:13
OK folks, time to put your thinking caps on! In this year-long competition, all you have to do (ho! ho! ho!) is predict the Top 8 players in the order you think they will finish in the ATP rankings as published on the Monday after the 2020 World Finals are over, i.e. the year-end rankings
Can you predict the unpredictable??
Can Andy rejoin the "Big 4" and all of them end 2020 back in the Top 8?
What will happen to the NextGen stars?
On top of this as a tie breaker you need to predict the ranking points of the world number 1, the world number 25 and our own Andy Murray. (NB If you have Andy as your number 1, you only have one guess at his points total, which will count twice). You don't have to predict who the number 25 is!
The scoring is as follows:-
1 point for each person you correctly guess who ends in the top 8
A 2nd point for that player if you have them positioned 1 place away from where they end up (eg you predict Rafa as number 2 and he ends up as either number 1 or number 3 then you score 2 points for Rafa) - you will also still score 1 point if the player you predicted in 8th spot ended up 9th despite missing out on the 1 point for that player not being in the top 8
You get the maximum 3 points for each player you predict in the right spot.
The maximum points are 24 for getting all 8 in the top 8 and getting them all in the correct order. Simples ...
If we end with a tie under this main scoring system then it will be the closest person to the correct total tie-break score. In the unlikely event that the tie-break is also tied then it will be the person predicting closest to Andy's ranking points, then the number 1's ranking points and if this has still not broken the tie break it will be a tied competition.
As an example, the perfect prediction for 2019 would have been:-
1. Nadal (9985)
2. Djokovic
3. Federer
4. Thiem
5. Medvedev
6. Tsitsipas
7. A Zverev
8. Berrettini
Andy: 442
25: 1530
Go on, have a go!
The deadline for entry is start of the first men's singles match of the Australian Open. Play begins on Monday 20th January in Melbourne so for clarity that's likely to be 00.01 in the UK. Edits are allowed up until the closing time. As an incentive for people to guess all three of the tie-break points, if you leave any out you will get the unlikely default values below:
1. 20,000
Andy 20,000
25. 3,000
Good Luck everyone with your predictions for 2020!!
:happy new year:
Can you predict the unpredictable??
Can Andy rejoin the "Big 4" and all of them end 2020 back in the Top 8?
What will happen to the NextGen stars?
On top of this as a tie breaker you need to predict the ranking points of the world number 1, the world number 25 and our own Andy Murray. (NB If you have Andy as your number 1, you only have one guess at his points total, which will count twice). You don't have to predict who the number 25 is!
The scoring is as follows:-
1 point for each person you correctly guess who ends in the top 8
A 2nd point for that player if you have them positioned 1 place away from where they end up (eg you predict Rafa as number 2 and he ends up as either number 1 or number 3 then you score 2 points for Rafa) - you will also still score 1 point if the player you predicted in 8th spot ended up 9th despite missing out on the 1 point for that player not being in the top 8
You get the maximum 3 points for each player you predict in the right spot.
The maximum points are 24 for getting all 8 in the top 8 and getting them all in the correct order. Simples ...
If we end with a tie under this main scoring system then it will be the closest person to the correct total tie-break score. In the unlikely event that the tie-break is also tied then it will be the person predicting closest to Andy's ranking points, then the number 1's ranking points and if this has still not broken the tie break it will be a tied competition.
As an example, the perfect prediction for 2019 would have been:-
1. Nadal (9985)
2. Djokovic
3. Federer
4. Thiem
5. Medvedev
6. Tsitsipas
7. A Zverev
8. Berrettini
Andy: 442
25: 1530
Go on, have a go!
The deadline for entry is start of the first men's singles match of the Australian Open. Play begins on Monday 20th January in Melbourne so for clarity that's likely to be 00.01 in the UK. Edits are allowed up until the closing time. As an incentive for people to guess all three of the tie-break points, if you leave any out you will get the unlikely default values below:
1. 20,000
Andy 20,000
25. 3,000
Good Luck everyone with your predictions for 2020!!
:happy new year: