606v2 ATP Picking Game: French Open

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How to play:
- Every player has 32 picks. All picks must be used in mens main draw singles matches. The points besides each fixture represent the points you score if that
player wins. If your pick is wrong you LOSE 10 points. Whoever has the most points at the end of the tournament is the winner. To play post your picks on this thread, try to number them. A valid pick must be in the format Player A def/over Player B (Winner First). By the end of the tournament all 32 picks must be used, unused picks will be counted as losses. You are allowed to post picks each day until the match starts, so please check the order of play. All picks posted after play starts are invalid and can be replaced. A pick is void if a match does not take place due to withdrawal or a change in the draw but is valid if at least one point is played (so retirements count). Each player will also be able to place “Djoker Cards” on any FOUR of their 32 picks. If your "Djoker" pick wins you earn double winnings if he loses you will not lose any points. In case of more than one player being tied on the same score, the tiebreak will be number of right picks, if still tied then by 1st highest scoring pick, 2nd highest scoring

Ferrer (68) - (2) Nadal

Position	Name	W/L	Djokers Used	Points
1st	Silver	22-10	4	63
2nd	Invisiblecoolers	15-17	4	59
3rd	Ryan86	26-6	4	48
4th	CJB	17-15	4	30
5th	Lydian	16-15(1)	4	21
6th	Bogbrush	21-10(1)	4	7
7th	LuvSports	8-22 (2)	4	-144
8th	KingRaf	7-11(14)	1	-182
9th	Laverfan	0-2(30)	0	-320

Picking game rankings: https://www.606v2.com/t42758-606v2-atp-picking-game-rankings#1969885

Do we have 32 picks or 23 picks?

like if I Pick all 32 of them in 1st round do they merit the same as 2nd round if some body else picked all 32 on tat round?, so say what If I picked all the seeded players 1st round and if they win would I score the maximum?

You'd get the points on offer. Someone else may pick an outsider on a Djoker and get shed loads of points.

Like if you pick against Nadal in R1 and Djoker it you'd probably get 900 points or something.

invisiblecoolers wrote:like if I Pick all 32 of them in 1st round do they merit the same as 2nd round if some body else picked all 32 on tat round?, so say what If I picked all the seeded players 1st round and if they win would I score the maximum?

It's worked out on the likelihood of the event happening.

Nadal (1) Brands (400)
Janowicz (7) Ramos (12)

To take 2 1st round matches and hypothetical scores.

If you pick Nadal to beat Brands you will score 1 point. It's a low score because it's likely to happen. If you pick Brands to beat Nadal, you'd get 400 points because you'll have managed to predict something that wasn't predicted to happen. However the tournament isn't made up completely of these mismatches and you'll get a ties like Janowicz/Albert Ramos where one might imagine that the winner is harder to predict and so in my example you'd get 7 points for predicting a correct Janowicz win and 12 points for a Ramos win.

The points depend purely on the players invovled.

It'll be obvious once CJB puts the first days play up.

32 picks Ryan, there is 127 games. A pick every 4 games pretty much

InvisibleCoolers these two have explained questions as well as I could

1 Darcis bt Llodra
2 Granollers bt Lopez

Who on earth is Duckworth?

1) Malisse d Raonic
2) Becker d Chardy (dont know, just have a funny feeling)

kingraf wrote:Who on earth is Duckworth?

1) Malisse d Raonic
2) Becker d Chardy (dont know, just have a funny feeling)

An Aussie player I think.

kingraf wrote:Who on earth is Duckworth?

Played two consecutive 5-set matches at AO 2013 losing to Kavcic (was up 2-1 sets).

You might recall this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY2QPeYxFoI

Blake d Troicki
Becker d Chardy (agree with KR).

1) Blake bt troicki
2) Becker bt chardy (djoker)
3) soeda bt sousa

@LS ... I was tempted with Soeda as well.

Backing the old boys........

1. TMF def Carreno Busta
2. Hewitt def Simon

But no more extra Djokers.

1. Federer bt Carreno-Busta (I feel terrible betraying PCB now)
2. Ferrer bt Matosevic

1] (76) Malisse def Raonic (1)
2] (28) Soeda def Sousa (3)
3] (34) Muller def Bautista Agut (3)
4] (50) Hewitt def Simon (2)
5] Devvarman (13) def (7) de La Nava
6] (8) Llodra def Darcis (12)
7] Blake (31) def (3) Troicki

SO if I all my predictions come right, then my points will be 76+28+34+41+50+13+8+31 = 281 right?

Sorry removed this prediction (41) Mayer def Seppi (2), I thought its Florian Mayer,

LF- Oh thats Duckworth!!!

IC- Its a great help if you number your picks mate.

Yes ic. Course, by picking outsiders you risk losing 10 points for each loss - you do know there's a penalty of 10 for an error don't you?

It helps CJB if you number your picks, by the way (see others).

Sorry Ryan, forgot that, 4 DJOKERS for the slam! Will update that now

1. Seppi d. Mayer
2. Harvesting Implement d. Lopez

bogbrush wrote:Yes ic. Course, by picking outsiders you risk losing 10 points for each loss - you do know there's a penalty of 10 for an error don't you?

It helps CJB if you number your picks, by the way (see others).

Yup I got that, playing my first picking game, so playing my natural gambling style like Federer, if clicks I win by handsome margin if bad day I will shank an lose

kingraf wrote:IC- Its a great help if you number your picks mate.

These are the matches I am more or less gonna gamble tomorrow, so lemme see how I do in the picking game

3. Granola def Lopez
4. Llodra def Darcis

Do have the scores on my iPad, just too tired to format table

3 Kamke bt Lorenzil
4 Sijsling bt Melzer
5. Mannarino bt Cuevas
6. Russell bt Klizan DJK1
7. Janowicz bt Ramos
8. Isner bt Berlocq

Nothing particularly attractive today. But I wont be on for a few days, so I need to make some big picks

3) Melzer d Sijsling
4) Russel d Klizan
5) Ramos d Janowicz
6) Nadal d Brands
7) Riba d Rosol
8) Gasquet d Przysiezny
9) Monaco d Gimeno Traver
10) Mathieu d Niemenen
11) Harrison d Kutzenov
12) Tsonga d Bedene

This is a radical departure from my usual tactics, but its a grand slam and I need to make some serious ground to get to #1, so its Hail Mary time

4) lorenzi bt kamke
5) berankis bt benneteau
6) alund bt vasselin

5. Nish def Levine
6. Tsonga def Bedine
7. Nadal def Brands
8. El Mugro def HM
9. Berdych def Monfils
10. Janowicz def Ramos
11. Gasquet def Stakovsky
12. Monaco def Traver

3) Stepanek def Krgios
4) Rosol def Riba
5) Fognini def Beck
6) Nadal def Brands

3. Sijsling d. Melzer
4. Nieminen d. Mathieu
5. Kuznetsov d. Harrison
6. Janowicz d. Ramos

None of these have started yet.

Thx CJB and Ryan for the explanation

Can my pick 3 be made void due to me spelling the opponents name wrong?

Just kidding. Trying to play it safe backfired a bit there.

Day 3 Pick

8] Novak Djokovic[1] Def David Goffin
9] Tommy Haas[2] beats Ruffin
10]Wawrinka[1] Def Bakker
11] Jack Sock[29] defs Lopez * [1st Joker]
12]Philipp Kohlschreiber[3] def Jiri Vesely
13]Denis Istomin[17] defs Florian Mayer * [2nd Joker]
14]Tomic (23) - (4) Hanescu * [3rd Joker]
15]Yen-Hsun[6] Lu defs Simone Bolelli
16](45) Baghdatis def Paire (2) * [4rth Joker][/color]

CJB, you putting odds up?

Sorry BB was doing table and odds and they take longer given the amount of games. Very tight table

9 Pella bt Dodig
10 Mahut bt Tipsy DJK2
11 Andujar bt Youzhny

3. Tomic d Hanescu
4. Mahut d Tipsarevic (sucker for highest negative marks, perhaps )

(@CJB... hope I am numbering these correctly.)

Baggy and Jack Sock are my key for the picking game.

ic doesn't understand the game

He's playing it wrong

7) Wawrinka bt de Bakker
8) Paire bt Baghdatis
9) Djokovic bt Goffin
10) Kohlschreiber bt Vesely

7) pella bt dodig
8) Serra bt dayvdenko
9) Bolleli bt lu

1. Kuznetsov bt Pouille
2. Delbonis bt Reister
3. Tursunov bt Dolgopolov (DJOKER)
4. Rufin bt Haas
5. Tomic bt Hanescu
6. Dodig bt Pella
7. Serra bt Davydenko
8. Mayer bt Istomin
9. Kohlscreiber bt Vesely
10. Pospisil bt Zeballos
11. Tipsy bt Mahut
12. Paire bt Baghdatis

13. Davydenko def Serra
14. Djokovic def Goffin
15. Youzhny def Andujar

emancipator wrote:ic doesn't understand the game

He's playing it wrong

Emancipator, the Galactic Reporter (and HitchHiker) should be spreading knowledge and enlightening the world. Derision of mortals does not become an Emancipator.

emancipator wrote:ic doesn't understand the game

He's playing it wrong

I AM proving u wrong so far, all my picks [underdog] break up for the moment atleast in the first set

lydian wrote:4. Rufin bt Haas

I am surprised at this one, Lydian.

Rufin is a good young prospect and Haas had withdrawn from his last match. In this present match he narrowly lost the first set on TB but doesn't seem too far fetched. However, it was a calculated risk at winning more picking games points that actual core belief he will win - I was 60/40 for Haas so took a risk that Rufin could ruffle...

I wavered over Rufin, picked Haas, then gave the match up. It was over Haas's illness, as lydian says.

However, it looks to be going the way of the veteran.

lydian wrote:Rufin is a good young prospect and Haas had withdrawn from his last match. In this present match he narrowly lost the first set on TB but doesn't seem too far fetched. However, it was a calculated risk at winning more picking games points that actual core belief he will win - I was 60/40 for Haas so took a risk that Rufin could ruffle...

Jack Sock is better, he looks every bit of Jim Courier, if only Jack has Jim's clay court movements we should be seeing a potential FO winner, but unfortunately given his movement in clay I would be surprised if he pass 3rd round test ever in FO in his life time, but certainly a future top 10 prospect, brilliant win over Garcia Lopez in st.sets today, earned me $720 for $60 of bet to win in st.sets.

He should have sky rocketed me up in the Picking game as well, since I played him as the JOker

Sock is good IC.
I wouldn't celebrate too early IC, I played a Djoker on Tursunov beating Dolgo