2024 The Greatest Loser: How it works

[dave g]

The Greatest Loser 2024: How it Works

Do think your fantasy tennis teams could win YCWJ?
Do your category A picks manage to find ways to lose their first round matches?
Then this is the contest for you, where you get points if your player loses:
"The Greatest Loser"


It will consist of four weeks of ATP tournaments in Asia and Europe between the U.S. Open and the Year End Championships in .



Teams


Your team must consist of 12 ATP players from the top 100 men on the WTA Tour. Your initial team may not be the same as a team that has already been posted, or it will be disqualified. We'll do our best to help monitor this. However, the responsibility of adhering to the requirements of this rule falls solely in the hands of the contest participant.

The current top 100 players on the WTA tour are divided into 4 categories. Each player is categorized according to her ranking after the US Open.. You must have three (3) players from each category. No Wildcards.

Categories and Player Pricing:

CATEGORY A: Players 1-15.
CATEGORY B: Players 16-40.
CATEGORY C: Players 41-70.
CATEGORY D: Players 71-100.

Each player on your team will only be awarded points if they play. However, you will lose points for each match that they win. The team you choose is supposed to last you the entire contest, and you only get FIVE(5) trades!


Tournaments:

Week 1 Sept 25 - Oct 2:
Tokyo (500 pts)
Beijing (500 pts)

Week 2 Oct 2 - Oct 13:
Shanghai (1000)

Week 3 Oct 21 - Oct 27:
Vienna (500)
Basel (500)

Week 4 Oct 28 = Nov 3:
Bercy (Paris Indoors) (1000)


Scoring:

500 point tournaments 70 45 25 15 7 2
Shanghai 100 70 45 25 15 7 3 1
Bercy 100 70 45 25 15 7 3




Trades:


If you feel that any player on your team is dead weight (winning too many matches), injured, or you just don't want them on your team anymore, you are allowed to trade her for someone else whom you feel is more adequate to fulfill your team's job (lose, of course. )


You are allowed up to FIVE (5) trades during the six-tournament contest.


Trades should be made BEFORE the tournament starts. If your trades are not submitted by the tournament's trade deadline, that trade will not go into effect until the following week.

Remember: YOU MUST ALWAYS HAVE THREE (3) PLAYERS PER CATEGORY ON YOUR TEAM.

The responsibility of finding out who will be playing in which events rests solely on your shoulders. The team you have at the start of each tournament is the team you're playing with.

Should your team fall in the nether regions of a TAT lake, so to speak, or if you just want to complain or have a drink to drown your sorrows, feel free to do so in the Losers Lounge

Your team must be posted before the scheduled start of main draw play in Osaka, which begins Monday, Sept 25, 2024 (local time, which probably means Sunday, Sept 14 GMT and US times) .

[dave g]

Player List

Category A
1 Sinner, Jannik
2 Zverev, Alexander
3 Alcaraz, Carlos
4 Djokovic, Novak
5 Medvedev, Daniil
6 Rublev, Andrey
7 Fritz, Taylor
8 Hurkacz, Hubert
9 Ruud, Casper
10 Dimitrov, Grigor
11 de Minaur, Alex
12 Tsitsipas, Stefanos
13 Paul, Tommy
14 Rune, Holger
15 Korda, Sebastian

Category B
16 Tiafoe, Frances
17 Shelton, Ben
18 Humbert, Ugo
19 Musetti, Lorenzo
20 Draper, Jack
21 Auger-Aliassime, Felix
22 Tabilo, Alejandro
23 Khachanov, Karen
24 Popyrin, Alexei
25 Fils, Arthur
26 Baez, Sebastian
27 Bublik, Alexander
28 Jarry, Nicolas
29 Thompson, Jordan
30 Borges, Nuno
31 Cerundolo, Francisco
32 Cobolli, Flavio
33 Arnaldi, Matteo
34 Etcheverry, Tomas Martin
35 Machac, Tomas
36 Navone, Mariano
37 Lehecka, Jiri
38 Struff, Jan-Lennard
39 Griekspoor, Tallon
40 Nakashima, Brandon

Category C
41 Darderi, Luciano
42 Martinez, Pedro
43 Berrettini, Matteo
44 Monfils, Gael
45 Giron, Marcos
46 Mannarino, Adrian
47 Michelsen, Alex
48 Zhang, Zhizhen
49 Marozsan, Fabian
50 Sonego, Lorenzo
51 Mpetshi Perricard, Giovanni
52 Norrie, Cameron
53 Kecmanovic, Miomir
54 Nishioka, Yoshihito
55 Carballes Baena, Roberto
56 Safiullin, Roman
57 Shevchenko, Alexander
58 Rinderknech, Arthur
59 Ofner, Sebastian
60 Diaz Acosta, Facundo
61 Kotov, Pavel
62 Bautista Agut, Roberto
63 Davidovich Fokina, Alejandro
64 Goffin, David
65 Lajovic, Dusan
66 Shang, Juncheng
67 Mensik, Jakub
68 van de Zandschulp, Botic
69 Moutet, Corentin
70 Muller, Alexandre

Category D
71 Duckworth, James
72 Bergs, Zizou
73 Kovacevic, Aleksandar
74 Munar, Jaume
75 Gaston, Hugo
76 Monteiro, Thiago
77 Hijikata, Rinky
78 Kokkinakis, Thanasi
79 Coria, Federico
80 Fognini, Fabio
81 Koepfer, Dominik
82 Nagal, Sumit
83 Ruusuvuori, Emil
84 Altmaier, Daniel
85 Fucsovics, Marton
86 Dzumhur, Damir
87 O'Connell, Christopher
88 Cazaux, Arthur
89 Purcell, Max
90 Nardi, Luca
91 Comesana, Francisco
92 Daniel, Taro
93 Ugo Carabelli, Camilo
94 Vukic, Aleksandar
95 Walton, Adam
96 Hanfmann, Yannick
97 Tirante, Thiago Agustin
98 Seyboth Wild, Thiago
99 Coric, Borna
100 Shapovalov, Denis

[ptmcmahon]

Can we get a team submission thread?

[ponchi101]

Can we get a team submission thread?

As you wish
https://www.talkabouttennis2.com/viewto ... 26#p118949

[ptmcmahon]

FYI first tournament does start on the 25th (according to ATP Calendar) but that's Wednesday, not Monday.

[tenedab]

Are we skipping one week, the week of October 14th?

[dave g]

Are we skipping one week, the week of October 14th?

Yes. I wanted to stay away from 250 point tournaments.

[ptmcmahon]

Deadline in about 21 hours?

[ptmcmahon]

I see a main draw match in Tokyo in about 3.5 hours so I'd assume that will be the entry deadline... for anyone not entered yet

[dave g]

Oops. I have fallen asleep at the wheel. While I knew the date the tournaments started, I didn't pay enough attention to realize that they started on a Wednesday, instead of the usual Monday.

[dave g]

Oops. I have fallen asleep at the wheel. While I knew the date the tournaments started, I didn't pay enough attention to realize that they started on a Wednesday, instead of the usual Monday.

And managed to miss the deadline.

[ptmcmahon]

And it begins with Navone (on four of six teams) winning.

[ptmcmahon]

I guess we really need a lounge for this contest

Bergs comes through clutch and makes it through qualifying (post deadline) to give two of us a second D player this week. Now he hopefully immediately loses.

[ptmcmahon]

I'm not too mad that Michelsen took out Tstitsipas since I had both of them. Although now he plays O' Connell so one of them will be a quarterfinalist this week.

But Fils taking out Fritz? C'mon! Right now my C and D players are 3-1 (meanwhile my A and B players got the memo and went 1-2.)

[ponchi101]

Our teams are very similar. Indeed, Fils was not supposed to...
Anyway, Tsitsipas delivered.