jaysee
06-02-2021, 12:00
Here's the annual competition, if you want to have a go at the impossible - predicting the Top 8 players in the order you think they will finish in the ATP rankings as published on the Monday after the 2021 World Finals are over, i.e. the year-end rankings
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. 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 2020 would have been:-
1
Djokovic
2
Nadal
3
Thiem
4
Medvedev
5
Federer
6
Tsitsipas
7
A Zverev
8
Rublev
1st:
12030
Andy:
547
25th:
1850
Edits are allowed up until the closing time, which is now 00.01 Monday 15th Feb.
Good Luck everyone with your predictions for 2021!!
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. 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 2020 would have been:-
1
Djokovic
2
Nadal
3
Thiem
4
Medvedev
5
Federer
6
Tsitsipas
7
A Zverev
8
Rublev
1st:
12030
Andy:
547
25th:
1850
Edits are allowed up until the closing time, which is now 00.01 Monday 15th Feb.
Good Luck everyone with your predictions for 2021!!