OK, the men's and women's senior tour seasons are both now over, so the calendar year end rankings are known at the top end. I would say that finalises our predictathon scores, but due to a couple of entrants tipping Bencic, currently in 98th place and therefore possibly interested in collecting more points from the remainder of the ITF season, there may yet be some mitigation of Bencic-related predictathon points still to come for Janik and hawkvshandsaw.
Having carefully crafted a set of rules for positive points which would have worked well in 2016, I see it has become utterly irrelevant given the 2017 outcomes which none of us got near. In particular, everybody's top 4 on the men's side included both Murray and Djokovic, everybody tipped Serena and most of us tipped Kerber. The result is that the scoring is a bit like it often is on QI, the winner being the lowest negative score.
Of the actual top 4 men, not one of us tipped either Federer or Dimitrov, just one of us (Gero) tipped Zverev, and only 4 of us tipped Nadal (from a predictathon field of 9 entrants). For a top 4 spot I mean - none of us tipped Nadal to end top.
Of the actual top 4 women, 4 of us (different 4 for each) tipped Halep, Muguruza and Pliskova for a top 4 finish, but none of us tipped Wozniacki.
Ad hoc wins on the WTA side, and with the additional distinction of being the only entrant to correctly place any player, male or female, having managed that with two WTA placings, namely Muguruza in 2nd and Pliskova in 4th.
Janik wins comfortably on the ATP side, due mainly to being the only entrant not to tip any player who ended outside the top 20 (everyone else having tipped one or the other of Raonic and Nishikori). Which is a mirror image of his wooden spoon entry on the WTA side, which didn't include any player who ended inside the top 20.
multipleman78 and Jimski have the equal best combined WTA+ATP scores.
With apologies for any miscalculations, the final scores (subject, as I say, to what Belinda does for the rest of the year) are:
ATP
1. Janik (-28)
2= mulitpleman78, San B and Jimski (-45)
5 Gero (-46)
6 hawkvshandsaw (-47)
7 EEG (-49)
8- ad hoc, Sam (-51)
WTA
1. ad hoc (-39)
2= multipleman78, Jimski (-42)
4 Sam (-44)
5 Gero (-46)
6 EEG (-56)
7 San B (-57)
8 hawkvshandsaw (-135)
9 Janik (-157)
Combined
1. mulitipleman78, jimski (-87)
3. ad hoc (-90)
4. Gero (-92)
5. Sam (-95)
6. San B (-102)
7. EEG (-105)
8. hawkvshandsaw (-182)
9. Janik (-185)
Having carefully crafted a set of rules for positive points which would have worked well in 2016, I see it has become utterly irrelevant given the 2017 outcomes which none of us got near. In particular, everybody's top 4 on the men's side included both Murray and Djokovic, everybody tipped Serena and most of us tipped Kerber. The result is that the scoring is a bit like it often is on QI, the winner being the lowest negative score.
Of the actual top 4 men, not one of us tipped either Federer or Dimitrov, just one of us (Gero) tipped Zverev, and only 4 of us tipped Nadal (from a predictathon field of 9 entrants). For a top 4 spot I mean - none of us tipped Nadal to end top.
Of the actual top 4 women, 4 of us (different 4 for each) tipped Halep, Muguruza and Pliskova for a top 4 finish, but none of us tipped Wozniacki.
Ad hoc wins on the WTA side, and with the additional distinction of being the only entrant to correctly place any player, male or female, having managed that with two WTA placings, namely Muguruza in 2nd and Pliskova in 4th.
Janik wins comfortably on the ATP side, due mainly to being the only entrant not to tip any player who ended outside the top 20 (everyone else having tipped one or the other of Raonic and Nishikori). Which is a mirror image of his wooden spoon entry on the WTA side, which didn't include any player who ended inside the top 20.
multipleman78 and Jimski have the equal best combined WTA+ATP scores.
With apologies for any miscalculations, the final scores (subject, as I say, to what Belinda does for the rest of the year) are:
ATP
1. Janik (-28)
2= mulitpleman78, San B and Jimski (-45)
5 Gero (-46)
6 hawkvshandsaw (-47)
7 EEG (-49)
8- ad hoc, Sam (-51)
WTA
1. ad hoc (-39)
2= multipleman78, Jimski (-42)
4 Sam (-44)
5 Gero (-46)
6 EEG (-56)
7 San B (-57)
8 hawkvshandsaw (-135)
9 Janik (-157)
Combined
1. mulitipleman78, jimski (-87)
3. ad hoc (-90)
4. Gero (-92)
5. Sam (-95)
6. San B (-102)
7. EEG (-105)
8. hawkvshandsaw (-182)
9. Janik (-185)
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