Talk About Tennis 2.0

nelslus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:43 pm
Doing TAT work and getting paid. You are doing God's work.

Having the paper on my desk is helping me look busy.

Going to a meeting but praying for all 44 of us Kokkinakis and Dimitrov pickers. We're still in this ATM!

swaydrian+ wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:54 pm Going to a meeting but praying for all 44 of us Kokkinakis and Dimitrov pickers. We're still in this ATM!

Answered prayers for the Dimitrov pickers. He saved two match points in the fifth set tiebreaker- playing bolder tennis the last few points to (barely) win.

Official Day 2 summary. The unofficial summary is very close, but it is very hard to recognize when someone makes two different posts when you are trying to make a summary by hand. Thankfully, our parcer checks for multiple post from a single user, and just reports their last post.

Start 117
No Picks 3
Left 114

Dimitrov 24
Kokkinakis 19
Sonego 11
Etcheverry 10
de Minaur 9
Murray 8
Jarry 5
Monfils 5
Evans 4
Isner 4
Purcell 3
Hurkacz 2
Wawrinka 2
Zverev 2
Coric 1
Draper 1
Khachanov 1
Lajovic 1
Michelsen 1
Thompson 1

Start 114
Alive 88
Dead 26
Unknown 0

Day 3 Pick Summary

Start 88
No Pick 2
Left 86

Mannarino 19
Davidvich Fokina 13
Djere 13
Eubanks 10
McDonald 9
Fucsovics 7
Cerundolo F. 5
Frtiz 3
Paul 2
Tiafoe 2
Tsitsipas 2
Karatzev 1

Stat 86
Alive 53
Dead 33
Unknown 0

Day 4 Pick Summary

Start 62
No Pick 11
Left 51

Baez 18
Jarry 7
Norrie 7
Berrettini 5
Evans 4
Zverev 4
Wawrinka 3
de Minaur 2
Murray 1

Start 51
Alive 45
Dead 6
Unknown 0

"No pick" was the second highest chosen.

Fastbackss wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 4:36 pm "No pick" was the second highest chosen.

This is taking me by surprise. I have no clue as to why we have so many "No Pick"s. I half expected to have my Player Mail inbox loaded with "Where is my pick" messages. But, I have found nothing.

The Day 5 pick was pretty tough. There are quite a few close matches, and a lot of the results can lead to people running out of picks. For me, it was a decision between taking an easy winner but possibly running out of picks, or taking a closer match but keeping enough options to not run out of picks. Only time will tell which of us made the right picks.

dave g wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:55 am The Day 5 pick was pretty tough. There are quite a few close matches, and a lot of the results can lead to people running out of picks. For me, it was a decision between taking an easy winner but possibly running out of picks, or taking a closer match but keeping enough options to not run out of picks. Only time will tell which of us made the right picks.

22:00 pm of the night. And I am still debating that one.
Indeed, I believe I will rather lock myself than dying tomorrow.

dave g wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 1:55 am The Day 5 pick was pretty tough. There are quite a few close matches, and a lot of the results can lead to people running out of picks. For me, it was a decision between taking an easy winner but possibly running out of picks, or taking a closer match but keeping enough options to not run out of picks. Only time will tell which of us made the right picks.

Same. And though I entered a pick I am 2nd guessing myself so far.

Day 5 Pick Summary

Start 45
No Pick 2
Left 43

Fritz 11
Gojo 11
Zhang 5
Shelton 4
Vesely 4
Tiafoe 3
Paul 2
Bonzi 1
Hijikata 1
Strickler 1

Start 43
Alive 33
Dead 10
Unknown 0

Wow! We have 10 of the 16 people playing picked by somebody.

We will lose at least 6. Vesely/Gojo has pickers on both sides, Stricker/Bonzi too, as do Zhang/Hijikata

Day 6 Pick Summary

Start 33

Norrie 24
Rublev 4
Medvedev 1
Sinner 1
de Minaur 2
Draper 1

Start 33
Alive 9
Dead 24
Unknown 0

Yesterday, we had 10 of 16 players picked. Today, we only have 6 of 16 players picked. For the size of the remaining contestant pool, Norrie has a really large bandwagon.

We are dooooooooooooooooomed!!!!!!